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Aktungbby
03-17-15, 10:42 AM
PARIS: France's health minister says she supports plans to criminalize the use of advertising with anorexic models in France. Altogether a good thing as I've known at least three ladies with horrific anorexia issues.

The measure would put France, a world capital of fashion, among countries like Israel and Spain to crack down on the glorification of dangerously thin models. Hasta la vista Calvin Klein!

Socialist lawmaker Olivier Veran wants to add language to an upcoming health reform bill to make it illegal to employ models deemed to have an eating disorder.

A second would make it a crime to glorify "excessive thinness," which would target pro-anorexia websites. It would be punishable by up to one year in prison and 10,000 euros ($10,575) in fines...Israel and Spain have already instituted such laws. In 2007, Spain banned models from the catwalks whose body mass-to-height ratio was below 18. In Israel, a law in 2013 banned underweight models. Let's hope the carpenters have reinforced the fashion-show 'catwalk' as we reVAMP the:subsim: "women you think are beautiful thread" just to stay politically correctly abreast of the French, Spanish and israeli's:03:!http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/323201/slide_323201_3064053_free.jpghttp://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/323201/slide_323201_3064048_free.jpgAll humor aside: this a serious problem of exploitive cruelty for profit that causes misery and death...IMHO, the above three nations are on the side of angels here: http://paleoforwomen.com/two-shocking-dehumanizing-reasons-runway-models-are-so-thin-and-why-we-should-never-aspire-to-look-like-them/ (http://paleoforwomen.com/two-shocking-dehumanizing-reasons-runway-models-are-so-thin-and-why-we-should-never-aspire-to-look-like-them/) :salute: And actually, Calvin Klein, to it's credit, is altering it's advertising to encompass the needs of larger ladies.:up: http://www.elle.com/fashion/news/a15178/myla-dalbesio-calvin-klein-plus-size/ (http://www.elle.com/fashion/news/a15178/myla-dalbesio-calvin-klein-plus-size/)

August
03-17-15, 11:25 AM
You know we have too many laws when they start mandating how fat models have to be.

Wolferz
03-17-15, 01:12 PM
:wah:There goes my modelling career.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/180px-Festivus_Pole.jpg:-?

Eichhörnchen
03-17-15, 05:42 PM
http://i.imgur.com/xhsF1tH.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/7eCCN1E.jpg Lily Elsie and Gabrielle Ray

They do still make them like this (I was lucky enough to marry one)

Aktungbby
03-18-15, 10:57 AM
rio01!:salute: Jeeze!! What a thread for your first post! :D

Tango589
03-18-15, 02:06 PM
rio01!:salute: Jeeze!! What a thread for your first post! :DWhat a comment for your first post!

:haha:

Wolferz
03-18-15, 02:22 PM
What a comment for your first post!

:haha:
Got the point across, eh? :D

Eichhörnchen
03-18-15, 02:38 PM
I'm still trying to work it out...

Aktungbby
03-18-15, 04:56 PM
I'm still trying to work it out...

Maybe ya need help with that work out!:Dhttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c2/b2/c5/c2b2c55b94905be77aff2d0e73f00a29.jpg As for me...I'm a HAMM's man BBY :woot:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2c/af/80/2caf80a1f4933fadfec52ac71d86caae.jpg
(the fabulous Mia Hamm)

Wolferz
03-18-15, 06:46 PM
I'm still trying to work it out...

Squirrels are less intelligent, unless there's a.....

HEY!!! GET OUTTA MY BIRD FEEDER!!!:stare:

I think I hear some ominous music for the Paris Minister of Health.:/\\chop
The fashion industry garners some clout with the money they have.

Aktungbby
03-18-15, 09:55 PM
I think I hear some ominous music for the Paris Minister of Health.:/\\chop
The fashion industry garners some clout with the money they have.
C'est le FAT CATS mon ami??!:|\\ Did you know that enrobee is used to describe a woman "richly-coated in her own body mass"?) which often leads to job discrimination.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iTuk256i--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/19amcfjne6nk3jpg.jpghttp://jezebel.com/thinness-and-french-women-if-you-are-fat-you-wont-g-1489937623 (http://jezebel.com/thinness-and-french-women-if-you-are-fat-you-wont-g-1489937623)

Wolferz
03-20-15, 06:17 PM
The French have always had a thing for girls with some meat on their bones. Must be leftover from the Roman occupation.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/Statue-f-Liberty.jpg

That's no skinny chick under that toga.:up:

nikimcbee
03-20-15, 08:06 PM
You know we have too many laws when they start mandating how fat models have to be.

This. Time for lay-offs at the local legislature.:up:

Wolferz
03-21-15, 12:38 PM
This. Time for lay-offs at the local legislature.:up:

Firing squad for the lot, I say.:-?
Just so their replacements know that there are dire consequences for being stupid.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere and applying all the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

Armistead
03-22-15, 10:26 PM
When i first dated my wife, she modeled and had to stay so thin, it was required,...she is 5'10 and stayed around 110. She looked great in clothes, but so bone thin.....course she was at the end of her career when we met....I was glad that she finally put some cushion on her buns...

Heck, the Hollywood women of the 40's era we so love had meat, great curves, today most would be considered a tad fat in the model world...

Still, when I go to my son's school, I'd say 70% of the kids are just overweight, something I never saw in my day...not something we want to glorify one way or the other.