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Author: | ProfessorF [ Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:58 am ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads | |||||||||
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-gf_Z4FTjA-3pD4kC4RWztevHBQ?docId=502bdd94f2a74efca97fb5fe17849cea |
Author: | pcernie [ Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:58 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads |
I seriously doubt that's the cause of women fretting about their weight and potentially harming themselves (women are in competition with each other there IME), but it doesn't help. Not sure if I'd see it banned, though increasingly I think the media and various industries around it have gone a little too 'meta' over the years... |
Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:13 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads |
I'd happily employ this ban in the UK. I've seen quite a few people (and not just girls) who have developed eating disorders which are fuelled by images in the media. One died. She was 17. |
Author: | hifidelity2 [ Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:15 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads | |||||||||
OK... I see the point but what about some models who are naturally skinny - you are then making them unemployed |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:14 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads |
I don't think you'll get very far as an argument claiming it'll be unfair because skinny girls won't get much modelling work. I mean, as it stands short girls, fat girls and ugly girls don't get much.... Modelling as a profession is by it's nature elitist and arbitrarily selective. If all you're doing is slightly tweaking the criteria, then one girl's loss is another girl's gain and it's pretty hard to claim it's any more unfair than it previously was. Jon |
Author: | JJW009 [ Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:13 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads |
I think trying to regulate fashion in this way is rather stupid. If you're going to ban anything, it should be cosmetic surgery. The Korean modelling scene in particular has taken this to such an extreme that it's very rare to see an actual 100% human girl on the catwalk. |
Author: | l3v1ck [ Sat Mar 24, 2012 3:57 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads |
I think banning airbrushing/photoshopping pictures of models would be more useful myself. Teen girls are trying to achieve the unachievable. |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:31 am ] | |||||||||
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IIRC they have banned it in adverts in the UK. Not in the features in magazines though, which is where you'd think it would do most good... |
Author: | TheFrenchun [ Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:26 am ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads | |||||||||
Cosmetic surgery should not kill people if performed correctly. However women who are about 6ft tall, being pushed to stay around the 7st mark will die of malnutrition. Model's malnutrition happens because they undereat so first the body uses all the fat to function and when there is no fat left, it breaks down the muscles, for example the heart, which leads to heart failures. I personally think they should just employ men to the the female runway. It is far easier for them to look skinny, and it seems to be what designers want. example: Andrej Pejic. ![]() |
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