When was the last time anyone ever saw a male plus sized model?
Body positivity is for women only and always has
just as soon as we start judging male looks like we do female we’d get on this
Men get judged plenty: height, hairline, weight, income. The 'we don't judge men' line only holds up if you've never been a short or bald guy on a dating app. Plus-size male models already exist (look up IMG's Brawn division); the industry just hasn't bothered to scale it.
short bald guys with $$$ can get any woman they want, short bald women, not so much :)
Bald women wear wigs and there's no comparison between short women and short men. I've never heard a man complain about a woman's height being too short and being bald seemed to have a positive effect on a woman I knew as she attracted attention with her differing wigs.
"Big and Tall" stores have been in existence for men for far longer than "plus-size" for women?
Non-White models being 4.5× more likely to be plus-size suggests casting directors still associate thinness with "mainstream" beauty while relegating diversity to niche categories.
possible, but the stat doesn't prove the causal story. A 4.5x ratio could also reflect that the plus-size category was built largely around Black and Latina consumers (who statistically have higher average body sizes in the US), so brands cast to their actual customer demographics...
Is it just the body though? I have noticed that even the facial features tend to not have much diversity.