Did no one even watch the ad?! **It was 15 seconds!!!!**

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30240674

Did no one even watch the ad?! **It was 15 seconds!!!!** - Blåhaj Lemmy

I swear, people on the comm are deeply uncurious and in denial about basic facts. The ad was unquestionably promoting eugenics in a silly tongue and cheek way 🤪. We live in a fascist state where people and companies feel more bold in coming out of the closet as evil; how is it so hard to believe that they’d run an ad like that? I doubt it’s just this comm though. Americans in general are as in denial about the state of things as the 1930s Germans before them. Things are more outrageous than they feel comfortable with, so to maintain their view of a just world, they just become further detached from reality. It’s easier to think the ground under you is stable than scramble to deal with the quicksand.

Yeah I still think it’s a tit joke. Her great jeans/genes make her hot.

My wife shops at American Eagle. They use models of all shapes colors and sizes, and I even recall them hiring a model that happens to have Down’s Syndrome. I just haven’t seen enough to find the eugenics accusations credible.

Is breast size genetic?
I’m not a scientist but from what I can tell yes it’s at least in part a heritable trait
Genetic variants associated with breast size also influence breast cancer risk - PubMed

These results provide insight into the genetic factors underlying normal breast development and show that some of these factors are shared with breast cancer. While these results do not directly support any possible epidemiological relationships between breast size and cancer, this study may contrib …

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