Zara ads banned for featuring 'unhealthily thin' models
www.bbc.com
It comes after the advertising watchdog banned M&S and Next ads for showing models who appeared too thin.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    16 hours ago

    I used to be similar to your ex, and stuff like in this post is why I wore a t-shirt to the pool until I was like 20. Not saying I had it as bad as a fat person, but body shaming the other end of the spectrum ain’t it either.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      LOL, think you misread me or misstated. You were tall and thin as a rail but had to hide that at the pool? 😆

      I do not wish to shame anyone. I merely want to scream to the heavens that where we are at is not normal or sane.

      What if the same stats showed such a rise in alcoholism? Wouldn’t we find that to be a major problem? Wouldn’t we be questioning the impact on societal health? Wouldn’t we be questioning the impact on all of our medical systems?

      Here’s NYC in the 1900s. Spot the fat people. No one is going to tell me those people were suffering starvation. They had plenty of other problems, but that seems like a thriving society to me.

      We can talk all day long about why they were normal sized. We can talk all day about why everyone’s fat now days. We need to talk about BOTH.

      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        I think I was being unclear! I was trying to agree with you that banning ads with thin people is shitty, because when I was growing up, that was a huge thing, with ‘real men like curves’ and generally all the media being all about how gross it is to be skinny. And so I felt compelled to hide my underweight body. ‘protruding collar bones’ like in the article is pretty much a direct quote from quite a few of my bullies. It’s important to fight fat phobia, but this really ain’t it.