Originally Posted by
nitram
Sorry mate this statement is so wrong and generalized.
Most photographers are not gay, I know I worked in the photography business for over 20 years and only knew a couple of photographers who were gay and they specialized in fashion, an area where all too often the fashion industry dictates that model must be a maximum of size 10 and 5'8'' at least to get fashion work, the opposite of the both stereotypes you present, (gay & ladies). Just look inside the pages of any womens' fashion magazine or check out their websites i.e. Vogue, Cosmo, etc.
All to often the fashion industry and magazines have used Photoshop (post processing) to create curves and body types that do not exist in nature i.e. stretching the neck, lengthening the legs, slimming the waistline, reducing the bum line, enlarging the bust line, changing eye colour and air brushing, to name but a few techniques, one programe even has a preset called thinify to make the subject slimmer at the ckick of a mouse.
These practices have mislead young women and girls into striving to achieve a body shape that only exists on a computer screen. If a teenage girls bone structure finishes developing and it is that of a size 14 she will never be a size 10, not only has advertising being been trying to present unreal body types it has been messing with peoples heads in many ways for decades in an effort to persuade us to buy their idea of image. Oh and most creative directors in advertising agencies where the big money comes from are not gay either.
Last year the British government ordered two advert campaigns to be cancelled because the advertising agency could not demonstrate how much post processing had been done to the images used, both by the way were for anti aging products and the ladies (both international stars) who featured had flawless skin in the adverts.
So please refrain from the type of sweeping and incorrect statement which you made in your post, unless you work in advertising, where such exaggerated statements are made on a daily basis, in an effort to convince us the great unwashed public that you really do know what your talking about