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Skinny, pre- pubescent models used in advertisments
candyfloss2000
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I was shocked looking at the latest chanel advert. None of my friends or myself can relate to the size of these skeletel models. How the hell can they get away with this? Hardly no one, and I mean no one I've ever seen in my every day life matches up to these stick like women. I'm not one to normally care about these things, i'm a healthy size 10 and i believe diets are for people with the IQ of 100 or less. But when I'm watching a show about music and the adverts come on and all of a sudden i'm presented with skeletel women who are supposed to be the epitome of all things glamorous and modern *barf* i cant ignore it. They are skinnier than my seven year old neices. Get a grip western world. Cos I as sure hell am tired of being forced to look at images of girls who are in no way representative of all the beautiful healthy girls I see around me on a daily basis in my real life.
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You're not forced. You have a choice - change the channel.
Who's forcing you to look at said images and what the hell do lettuces have to do with anything?
unless she's being fed on those drugs they gave to East German gymnasts.
Considering that 90% of advertising includes very skinny women I would say its better just to walk around with your eyes closed.
90%? Really?
If I've told you once I've told you a billion times, don't exaggerate.
The fashion (and to do with image in any way) industry isn't really bothered about what's right but will encourage things that aren't right, just so they can make a mint of what they're selling. Skin and bone? Hmm... Curvy's so much better.
Edit: As for the bit in bold, what about people who are overweight that really need to lose weight for health reasons?
Stranger things have happened at sea.
Hmmmmmm.
Really? I get worried about the promotion of the 'very thin' as some 'ideal' because I have seen the effect of this on many teenaged girls, who cannot conform to this.
There is also a lot of pressure on models themselves to be thinner than they naturally should be.
Yes, all types of body shape can be beautiful, however to say that 'thinness' is not promoted is wrong.
And to say that 'curves' are just fat, and suggest 'jealousy' is at the root of any criticism seems rather vicious and general too.
This.
Put the sports channels on. Don't think I've ever seen a perfume ad on them outside of the run up to Christmas. You might get a bit annoyed by Ray Winstone telling you to "bet neyah" every break but at least you'll avoid the skinny women.
You need to look at a website called Tumblr, there are so many teenage girls on that website that say they are not eating because they want to lose weight and have a "thigh gap".:eek:
In fashion advertising, more like 99.9%. Even some fashion editors have complained about the sizes of clothes supplied for them, saying that they will only fit very, very thin women, well below a healthy BMI. When Marks and Spencers ran a campaign where they wanted size 12-14 models they found that none of the top agencies even had girls on their books in that size: they had to approach plus size agencies. I do think there is something skew-wiff about a world where size 12 is defined as 'plus size'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1192751/Vogue-editor-Alexandra-Shulman-attacks-fashion-houses-force-magazines-use-size-zero-models.html
I find it quite shocking here that the editor of Vogue ( no stranger to waif like models) says that they often have to retouch photographs to "make the models look healthier".
My daughter's best friend - 6 foot tall and gorgeous but with long-term eating disorders - was signed by a top modelling agency around her 16th birthday. She was extremely leggy and slim. Over the next few months she put on half a stone, not because she was getting fatter, but because she had a delayed puberty because of her low body weight and belatedly developed small breasts and hips. The modelling agency first ordered her to lose the weight, then removed her from their books. It is not being 'vicious' towards thin women to suggest that this was not a healthy process for a teenage girl.
you feel that those of us with an IQ of other 100 shouldn't eat?
i hate to ask the obvious question
Good post. I have heard childen as young as 9 and 10 anxiously discussing their weight and diets. It sickens me. We are producing a generation of youngsters with very unhealthy attitudes towards food and their health. And why? Because slimming food manufacturers make a mint out of diet foods etc and affect girls' idea of body image.