this image first appeared on The women?s Rights Facebook page, where it had, by last week, received over 54 000 likes and 16 500 shares.
No news on how many likes or shares, this hairless one received.
But what?s fascinating is the amount of coverage the fact that these images went viral actually received.
Currently 430 000 posts apparently remarking on this remarkable fact.
Because it?s amazingly newsworthy that women would actually like to see (occasionally,) a mannequin who resembled their own bodies, right?
This, from Shine, on Yahoo: ? On Tuesday, a blogger at Women?s Rights News posted a photo of the department store mannequins to Facebook and the response was overwhelming. ?It?s about time reality hit?? wrote one out of almost 2,500 commentators. ?Anybody saying these mannequins encourage obesity or look unhealthy, you have a seriously warped perception of what is healthy. I guarantee the ?bigger? mannequin in the front there represents a perfect BMI? wrote another. As of Thursday, the photo had garnered almost 50,000 likes and shared almost 15,000 times. That?s a lot of attention for a hunk of fiber glass and plastic.?
This contributor to The Washington Post had this to say: ? Let?s face it. Part of the mannequins? viral appeal was no doubt the illusion that they came from Sweden, that Nordic bastion of pushing-the-envelope cultural fare that brought us the likes of Ikea and ?The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.? We all secretly want to take our lifestyle cues from Sweden. (Okay, maybe that?s just me.)?
(WTF?)
? But the excitement and interest generated by the mannequins run much deeper than that. ?Call it a hunch, but I think we could have quite a discussion here,? wrote the popular syndicated columnist Connie Schultz on her Facebook page, where I first viewed the image. Which is clearly what Women?s Right?s News was after in posting the photos: ?Store mannequins in Sweden. They look like real women. The US should invest in some of these,? read the caption.?
You?d think Ahlens (the department store in question had created a mannequin which walked and stretched and raised children and worked and cooked meals, (those CLEVER CLEVER Swedes ? read that in gushing Washington Post voice, please,) so that we could actually really see how clothes work on REAL WOMAN.
That would be worthy.
But no.
The department store just used a model who looked like their customers.
The mind bloody boggles.
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