It aint over 'till the fat lady sings!

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

"women you think are beautiful thread" just to stay politically correctly abreast of the French, Spanish and israeli's

!

All 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/

And actually, Calvin Klein, to it's credit, is altering it's advertising to encompass the needs of larger ladies.

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

There goes my modelling career.

Eichhörnchen · 03-17-15, 05:42 PM

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!

Jeeze!! What a thread for your first post!

Tango589 · 03-18-15, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

rio01!

Jeeze!! What a thread for your first post!

What a comment for your first post!

Wolferz · 03-18-15, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Tango589

What a comment for your first post!

Got the point across, eh?

Eichhörnchen · 03-18-15, 02:38 PM

I'm still trying to work it out...

Aktungbby · 03-18-15, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

I'm still trying to work it out...

Maybe ya need help with that work out!

As for me...I'm a HAMM's man BBY

(the fabulous Mia Hamm)

Wolferz · 03-18-15, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Eichhornchen

I'm still trying to work it out...

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

HEY!!! GET OUTTA MY BIRD FEEDER!!!

I think I hear some ominous music for the Paris Minister of Health.

The fashion industry garners some clout with the money they have.

Aktungbby · 03-18-15, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolferz

I think I hear some ominous music for the Paris Minister of Health.

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://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.

That's no skinny chick under that toga.

nikimcbee · 03-20-15, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by August

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.

Wolferz · 03-21-15, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

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

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.

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,984 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	It aint over 'till the fat lady sings! 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 "women you think are beautiful thread" just to stay politically correctly abreast of the French, Spanish and israeli's!All 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/ And actually, Calvin Klein, to it's credit, is altering it's advertising to encompass the needs of larger ladies. http://www.elle.com/fashion/news/a15178/myla-dalbesio-calvin-klein-plus-size/ __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Wolferz Navy Seal Join Date: May 2007 Location: On a mighty quest for the Stick of Truth Posts: 5,963 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	The French have always had a thing for girls with some meat on their bones. Must be leftover from the Roman occupation. That's no skinny chick under that toga. __________________ Tomorrow never comes

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Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ You see my dog don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.