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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: vaskidmark on November 13, 2013, 05:25:01 PM
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http://victorygirlsblog.com/?p=15613
Obamacare Girl is not a citizen and was not paid for being Obamacare Girl.
Why am I not insensed?
stay safe.
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Who?
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Jeebus! Why am I not surprised? It's actually fitting.
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I don't understand why people are concerned about a model that appeared on a web site. Even a fairly controversial web site.
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I don't understand why people are concerned about a model that appeared on a web site. Even a fairly controversial web site.
It's really not about the model. And it's only partially about the web site.
stay safe.
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It's really not about the model. And it's only partially about the web site.
stay safe.
The illigals are taking our un-paid modeling jobses!!
No, still don't get it.
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I must be getting sick or something, I'm agreeing with Fistful. Web "designer" probably pulled a stock image from somewhere and slapped it in.
Possible the model was paid some paltry sum for the original image.
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I must be getting sick or something, I'm agreeing with Fistful. Web "designer" probably pulled a stock image from somewhere and slapped it in.
Possible the model was paid some paltry sum for the original image.
This.
They were looking for a model that could plausibly be taken for hispanic by hispanics, but that wasn't either butt-ugly or scary to the majority of non-hispanics.
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I must be getting sick or something, I'm agreeing with Fistful. Web "designer" probably pulled a stock image from somewhere and slapped it in.
Possible the model was paid some paltry sum for the original image.
I read somewhere that she was actually paid, but in kind. A set of family portraits, in exchange for using her mug on a web site.
They were looking for a model that could plausibly be taken for hispanic by hispanics, but that wasn't either butt-ugly or scary to the majority of non-hispanics.
What the ? So, most Hispanic women are ugly and scary? ???
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What the ? So, most Hispanic women are ugly and scary?
Ever spent any time in Tijuana?
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I read somewhere that she was actually paid, but in kind. A set of family portraits, in exchange for using her mug on a web site.
What the ? So, most Hispanic women are ugly and scary? ???
No, advertizing folk/marketers/designers for a mass-appeal product want to appeal to the greatest number of folk for a given ad buck and given particular employer conditions ("diversity" conditions included). To check off the "hispanic" box, the usual effort is to find an attractive mostly-anglo woman who looks sorta-spanish so folk can assume what they will. Older folks see an attractive brunette and hispanics see one of theirs. Such a gal is a documented two-fer (female, hispanic) with an appeal to non-hispanic folk that a "straight outta Oaxaca" model would not have.
If that is too complex, perhaps the following will help. You are in charge of advertising or the look/feel of a product that is supposed to have mass appeal. Given you have to include a black male in adverts, pamphlets, & the website, do you choose Taye Diggs or Dennis Rodman as your model? Both classified as black and male, but one is going to have broader appeal. Or, put negatively, one is going to be scarier to the non-black majority than the other. Matter of fact, Dennis Rodman may even be considered "butt ugly" to a large slice of folks.
In the case of this model, she was more than likely upper-class Columbian or decended from such and may have not have a drop of NA indian blood in her as is my SIL. Still get to check the "hispanic" box, though.
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What the ? So, most Hispanic women are ugly and scary? ???
Nobody would think so if they ever saw that international blockbuster movie, Bandidas.
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She was paid "in kind", not in cash
They had family photographs taken in exchange for use of her photo, or so I'm told....
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It's really not about the model. And it's only partially about the web site.
stay safe.
Irony is ironic!