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uh oh...its all coming out now!!how do you know what that is like??? :O
uh oh...its all coming out now!!how do you know what that is like??? :O
Think I might start complaining about the depiction of fat lasses in adverts for being socially irresponsible as well.
As I said above, it's insane that we are introducing "suga taxes" and having other such initiatives to reduce child obesity and on the other hand we are celebrating such obesity in models. It's madness.
You say this as though it's some prevailing attitude that's taking over modern society.
No one on here so far seems to think that promoting obesity as a positive body image is good. No one I've ever met or talked in real life about this issue seems to think that promoting obesity as a positive body image is good. My girlfriend and her mother who at this time 3 years ago where both VERY overweight seem to think that promoting obesity as a positive body image is good.
The fashion industry is NOT a good indicator of which way the winds of general social acceptance are blowing. Cosmopolitan and other companies that pull these sort of marketing shticks exist to sell themselves and I guarantee you that that particular front page cover of Cosmo sold like nobodies business because everyone's talking about it.
Increasingly liberal ideals HAVE encouraged the fashion industry to accept plus sized models into the fold, but there is a VERY distinct difference between 'plus sized' and 'obese'. Models like Tess Halliday are exceptionally few and far between by comparison. And even if we do accept that all this is encouraging a SMALL minority of overweight people to stay that way or indeed get bigger, that will never be the sole reason as to why they're that way in the first place. The main reason will likely always be that junk food is cheap and becoming increasingly more convenient for a country that takes very little pride in it's own cuisine's or healthy eating programs.
LINGsCARS has had a few amusing scrapes with the ASA.
The DeLorean ad complaint
http://www.lingscars.com/images/pdf/asa2.pdf
The 'BMW Bum Boy' complaint
https://images.lingscars.com/facebook/bb1.pdf
Thought you were taking time off from GD?
i feel sorry for women here. They always have to conform it seems. Too skinny and be ashamed, too fat and be ashamed. What is this world coming to?!
i feel sorry for women here. They always have to conform it seems. Too skinny and be ashamed, too fat and be ashamed. What is this world coming to?!
Since edited my original post....Be a man.
Problem solved.
#winning
Since edited my original postOmg...a world where we want people to be healthy and not do themselves harm! The horror of it.
Since edited my original post
It was made everybody else's problem when 10% of the nhs budget is spent on type 2 diabetes treatment. Something that is preventable in the vast vast majority of cases by maintaining a healthy weight.
Excess weight leads to increased rates of cancer, Alzheimer's, strokes amongst others. Devastating conditions.
I don't know about you but id like to spend more money on treating people who have not contributed to their health issues rather than those who have.
Omg...a world where we want people to be healthy and not do themselves harm! The horror of it.
Maybe thats just the way it is and we need this period of "problems" to eventually get the message out and people to take notice and stop eating themselves to death. But you gotta die of something right? Look i just think that internet warriors and twitter complaints are not the right way to go about it. Leave it to the people that manage the NHS and the budgets it gets to get the message out. The general public need to stop getting their pitch forks out every time something contentious like this is released and just get on with their own lives.It was made everybody else's problem when 10% of the nhs budget is spent on type 2 diabetes treatment. Something that is preventable in the vast vast majority of cases by maintaining a healthy weight.
Excess weight leads to increased rates of cancer, Alzheimer's, strokes amongst others. Devastating conditions.
I don't know about you but id like to spend more money on treating people who have not contributed to their health issues rather than those who have.
And clearly you've missed the massive increase in obesity rates at all ages over the last few decades.
That's why people care. That's why people should be aware of their size.
Maybe thats just the way it is and we need this period of "problems" to eventually get the message out and people to take notice and stop eating themselves to death. But you gotta die of something right? Look i just think that internet warriors and twitter complaints are not the right way to go about it. Leave it to the people that manage the NHS and the budgets it gets to get the message out. The general public need to stop getting their pitch forks out every time something contentious like this is released and just get on with their own lives.
Please. The bmi is fundimentaly flawed.
You say this as though it's some prevailing attitude that's taking over modern society.
No one on here so far seems to think that promoting obesity as a positive body image is good. No one I've ever met or talked in real life about this issue seems to think that promoting obesity as a positive body image is good.