France bans skinny models in anorexia clamp-down

urloved33 wrote: »

TheRoadDog wrote: »

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-bans-skinny-models-in-anorexia-clamp-down/ar-AAaohae

What is wrong with this world? It's now politically correct to discriminate against skinny people?

They are not skinny they are sick. It should be illegal for an entire industry to capitlize on a persons illness. In addition to promoting this illness it is tearing down the self esteem of most normal women.

I was glad to hear it.

definition please

Because of anorexia.... this sometimes (rarely) happens to women and men all over just because the tv industry decide to promote unhealthily unrealistic women....
that is the extent people go to

maybe if they show what they go through on a daily basis, the pain, hair loss, tooth loss, vision disturbances, organ failure and skeletal issues.... the down sides ect then mayb people will think harder and hopefully choose healthy eating etc.

Totalitarianism at its finest.

urloved33 wrote: »

_incogNEATo_ wrote: »

urloved33 wrote: »

TheRoadDog wrote: »

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-bans-skinny-models-in-anorexia-clamp-down/ar-AAaohae

What is wrong with this world? It's now politically correct to discriminate against skinny people?

They are not skinny they are sick. It should be illegal for an entire industry to capitlize on a persons illness. In addition to promoting this illness it is tearing down the self esteem of most normal women.

I was glad to hear it.

definition please

DICTIONARY.COM

i mean really do we have to hand feed each other the dictionary?


rexia - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster ...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anorexia‎CachedSimilar
noun an·orex·ia \ˌa-nə-ˈrek-sē-ə, -ˈrek-shə\. : a serious physical and emotional
illness in which an abnormal fear of being fat leads to very poor eating habits ...

I wanted the definition of "normal women"

CJisinShape wrote: »

alywei3773 wrote: »

They don't require you to be underweight to the point of health risk, most just tend to prefer it. The government has no place in the issue- that being said, i don't live in France.

My personal opinion of it is that if they have issue with maintenance of that body type they should be something other than a model.

Considering that you called models "human hangers for art" it is not surprising you had this opinion. It does seem that you value the art more than the human.

The art that is of such magnificent "importance" that people die in the quest to showcase it, has a two-year shelf life at best, after which the "breathtaking" outfit that a young girl starved themself to get into is an outdated embarrasment in the back of someone's closet.

I could care less about the clothing- it is usually s**t and not at all practical. People shell out an exorbitant amount of money to feel like they are filling their own personal voids. But, being a hanger is what they do. THAT is the job. They are a body of a certain type that showcases a creation in the way a designer would best like to showcase it in order to make it marketable/desirable/profitable. The human is just that- A HUMAN. Therefore has the choice to be in that particular business and conform to the standards required to be successful in that business or not.
For there to be a restriction to make a standard of a business more lax for no reason seems reason-less to me. That is my point of view.

benjaminhkohl wrote: »

Totalitarianism at its finest.

Not at its finest lol, but yes. Exactly.

urloved33 wrote: »

av w size is 12-14. again do yall live under a rock?

http://www.cleveland.com/style/index.ssf/2010/08/size_14_is_average_american_wo.html

I personally think we are soo *kitten* backwards on what we should and shouldn’t be… I think the model (human being) and the industry or employer all have the right to decide for themselves what they would or would not like to promote their clothing, shoes, make up, or whatever the hell else the want to sell. It’s EVERYONES decision. No one is holding a gun to any ones head about what to do. If they were not happy with the treatment. Quit. If you are not happy with yourself, seek help. If you think this is a big issue, stop putting so much energy into useless arguments. To each their own IMO but hey…. What do I know.