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France may make it illegal to promote extreme thinness
"The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness." Here is the link: Link
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That's a disgusting pic.
Good!! Because that pic right there freaks me out. I mean, look at her. The dress doesn't even fit!
That's a good thing :)
and that picture makes me kinda gag.
Good thing. Because those things...tend to push people toward anorexia.
It is a good idea to promote the health of people, however there may be a drawback. It is censorship of an idea. It is an idea I vehemently disagree with, but it is still censorship of an idea. With every idea that is banned, groundwork is laid down for other ideas to be banned, perhaps ideas that I do agree with.
thats wrong of them
It is still for the common good to fight images that promote anorexia though. I'm not sure if law is the right avenue.
That pic is giving me nightmares all over again.
Supported!! But how do those editors & advertisers define extreme thinness? Seems there will be lot of dispute then.
we should also get rid of fat people
Yay! Definitely moving in the right direction. :)
Now, if only we could fight the growing rate of obesity...
I'm going to place myself in the minority here when I say that this government action is evil.
Good. Because beauty is not bones.
Freedom of speech, darn it...
Freedom of speech or freedom to eat...
Who gets to decide what extreme thinness looks like? I agree with la faerie on the account that government gag orders on free speech is never good, there are a lot of other issues that shouldn't be "advertised" but are allowed, will they start targeting those as well?
If you thought having sex with Asian girls was a great way to live "body poetry" try sleeping with an ana. Then you really get to see stuff moving around.
I should talk. It's been well over two years.
Those French are a bunch of idealistic morons. Take America's best idiocy and exponentially metastasize it.
France.
I don't enjoy looking at extremely thin people but passing that in parliament sounds like an egregious waste of time.
Personally, I think in a society that emphasizes thinness as an ethnocentric attitude, it just teaches girls and men for that matter to not be comfortable in the skin they are in or the way they are.
Some people are naturally skinny, but that picture is in no way natural.
lolfrance.
By the way, my anatomy professor wants her skeleton model back. She's been wondering where that was.
@la_faerie_joyeuse - Agreed. But still, yucky yucky poo
Discriminating is discriminating. If someone wants to be that thin, well let them. It's their body, their choice. It might not be the right choice, but it sure as hell isn't the government's job to tell them that.
Couldn't the fashion industry regulate this instead of the government? Offer some kind of incentives for using healthy models...? That seems like a better method to move away from extreme thinness.
seeing people like that makes me want to force feed them cupcakes...
Ok that picture is just sick! How could anyone want that?