Beauty

Should models on billboards represent average people, not unrealistic perfection?

For

It promotes healthy body image for everyone.

Against

Fashion is about aspiration, not average life.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • Advertising should simply use average looking people.
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • Maybe the real problem is that we consider normal people 'ugly' by default.
    RedditOriginal language: English

Against

  • I love to see beautiful people in beautiful places and I'd rather that advertising continue to reflect this.
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • And ad agencies wouldn’t have paid models the money they have if it didn’t work exactly that way...
    RedditOriginal language: English
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