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You have to compare this to being obese, not simply being fat, that girl is not simply slim, she is extremely thin bordering on anorexic.
So no, and the reason it is banned in some places and should be in all, is that it causes eating disorders especially among teenage girls that try to become unhealthily thin to live up to an impossible fashion ideal.
There is no similar fashion ideal for being obese. But if hypothetically there was, and it caused a similar effect, it should also hypothetically be illegal to use obese models.
I’m that thin too. Do you know how fucking tired I am of hearing about how I’m “bordering on anorexic”? Shut the fuck up, I probably eat more than you. You’re right, there are a lot of stupid comments in here, as you put it. But they all sound like you. Reread your comments with the new understanding that there are thin people reading them too.
This is just a bunch of fat people collectively saying ‘ew you should eat more’ and it’s gross.
Seriously. This was my take too. It’s gross that people are calling a thin person that they know nothing about “unhealthy”.
This assumption that young women are so silly and impressionable that they can’t be allowed to see thin women modelling clothes because they might be inspired to become dangerously underweight, is really starting to annoy me.
Yes having only very thin women modelling in adverts is bad, but this isn’t bad because ‘fashion obsessed girls are so dumb they’re gonna stop eating if they see this’, it’s bad because not all women are thin, and advertising only with the thinnest narrows the market you appeal to.
And if eating disorders in young women were really such a big worry for the government, surely they would instead fund nhs mental health services properly to make getting help for disordered eating and the issues which cause it (here’s a hint, it’s not fashion), much easier and safer to access?
But no, this is not what is being done, they’re banning adverts with thin models instead.
Starmer really doesn’t like women it seems. Too thin and you’re stupid and impressionable and promote mental illness by existing, too many children and you’re a scrounger who doesn’t deserve government support, lacking an extra X chromosome and you’re banned from public loos and refused healthcare.
Why do I have to compare this to being obese? What metric are you using that implies
(obese == skinny) > fat?Very obviously for similar extreme in the physical condition.
So its only extremist based? What about body building?
Whataboutism?
You could say what about lots of things, but what about arguing your case?
Body building is not at all within a similar category of fashion magazines setting an unhealthy standard as for being thin.
Mention One high end fashion company that uses extreme body builders for their models.
Body building is a sport, being thin is not a sport.
Although body building is also extreme, it is a different category and a different debate.
It’s not whataboutism - just trying to understand your point of view how skinny is worse than fat when objectively speaking they both carry similar health risk, I’d even argue that until you get old skinny is still healthier than fat. So clearly you’re not referring to the health metric - what is it then?
You just keep patching your thought process with goal post movement. First it’s health, then it’s extreme mindset, now it’s “sport” whatever that means?
Either way cleaely you haven’t formed a steong position here and as someone who’s been friends with many people who are naturally skinny and got bullied for it I’d say that you’re really missing something here.
I never made that claim. I changed the wording of that post to make it crystal clear although it should already have been obvious. You were extrapolating beyond the meaning of my words.
I’m not moving the goalpost, but you keep changing the subject to fat and body builders. Different subjects have different arguments.
The reason super thin fashion models are banned remains the same, they cause an unhealthy ideal that is impossible for women in general to follow, causing some to develop eating disorders among other things.
This is in no way the case for fat models or sports models. You are definitely attempting to make your whataboutism stick, despite it’s 100% irrelevant and besides the point of why thin models are a problem.
Just because in your mind fat hypothetically could be the same doesn’t make it so. All research shows that very clearly. Fat models do not make people want to be fat.
I have a friend who is black, so don’t call ME a racist! /s
What a lame argument, you don’t know me, My ex was naturally very thin or “skinny”, except she wasn’t really, what she was, was hyper stressed, and at the age of 35 she had a stroke!
I also knew another girl who was anorexic, and she really struggled with it. Apart from that I’ve known many people men included that are very slim. Don’t pretend that a few thin people represent the majority of what this problem is about. My opinion is based on the research and the arguments that were the basis for regulating models in some countries, and frankly all countries should have that. That has nothing to do with shaming people who are unusually thin, because obviously you shouldn’t do that.
You still avoid answering exactly what makes “skinny worse than fat” because you have no objective measurement and just making shit up lol