Australia to ban ultra-skinny models

Originally Posted by Razele

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Guys this is all a political play.

In Australia at the moment, we have a large amount of contested federal seats in an area that polls as being HUGELY conservative. Known as our bible belt, in South Australia.

Essentially everything these days is aimed at marginal seats. So ATM it's all conservative stuff like this legislation, internet filter, mandatory two year data logging, ID cards etc etc.

I've actually seen a lot of these sorts of things popping up in the news over the past year or so related to Australia, though I didn't have any real understanding of what was causing it all, outside of the fact that Conservatives within the country had risen to power. This whole thing seems outrageous, frankly, I'm not sure how I would react as an Australian citizen, but I'd imagine it wouldn't be nice.

I mean, yes, it's well-documented that the proportions of modern models, the so-called "ideal" figure, is outright impossible for most to achieve, and ends up creating some sort of negative body image for some people (mostly women), but the legislation, as described here, seems to broad - broad enough that they could accuse almost anything as being "out of bounds".

And, as someone else mentioned, what are they going to do about those of us who are naturally tall and thin? Make us gain weight (but not too much muscle, or you're BREAKING THE RULES)? Make us stay indoors? The whole thing is just nanny-state bull, and I can't imagine something like this will stand.

I should say, however, that I agree with some of the more obvious points; no models under 16, no one who is dangerously thin, that sort of thing. But I think that should be addressed more from the employer side of things; classifying models who are excessively thin as a health risk, or a product of corporate negligence, something so that it becomes a monetary problem for the company, rather than some kind of high-handed moral statement handed down from on high.

The excessively muscular thing is stupid, though. What, so no professional athletes in advertising?

Originally Posted by BlueWord

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The excessively muscular thing is stupid, though. What, so no professional athletes in advertising?

you don't want people to feel badly about themselves, right?

You can't legislate attractiveness. No matter how much they try to tell me fat women are people too I won't ever want to bone them.

Originally Posted by Synthese

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god, thank you.

I believe it's also in another Kurt Vonnegut book, Sirens Of Titan.

Originally Posted by Mountains

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So that's why they've banned muscular male models? They want the Pillsbury Dough Boy to model for Armani now.
Y'allz forgot the term "excessively" in there, as in roid-ragin' Hulk SMASH homies with calves as wide as my waist PS: I don't know about the Australian system, but you'd think this thing would be struck down as discriminatory. It's impossible for me to get to "normal" weight, I'm not starving but I'm not going to gain weight for a number of years yet and there's no health problems stemming from my being skinny. No models under 16..... so does that mean they have to have adults model children's clothing?

You would think that with Australia's paltry population, people would actually want the men to be fitter and stronger than the global average so that we won't be curbstomped in another war.

Originally Posted by KitAkira

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No models under 16..... so does that mean they have to have adults model children's clothing?

- Only use models aged 16 or older to model adult clothes - both on catwalks and in print.

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This, at least, makes sense to me.

Originally Posted by Uncontrol

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I agree with most of this, except I worry it's quite discriminatory towards naturally thin girls.

I worry that no one's taken a swing at this softball...

Hooked on Phonics failed me

Originally Posted by mondayc

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Why do we feel the need to appease fat people

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Unfortunately, as fatasses have become the majority, it isn't a question of appeasing them, it's a question of them justifying living the disgusting lifestyles they live and telling themselves it's OK to be a fat tub of ****.

Originally Posted by KitAkira

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Hooked on Phonics failed me

Happens to the best of us.

My last post was referencing the law, by the way, not the sentence. A reread makes me think it could be interpreted like I was correcting you in a rather rude manner, which wasn't my intention.

Winky were you raped by a fat guy or something

Originally Posted by huale768

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Everyone's rockin' the moose knuckle this season. If you want to see more just check out the season premiere of Entourage, brah.I'm gonna laugh when 80's style hi rise mom jeans come back to girl's fashion. COVER THOSE MIDRIFFS!But I think that should be addressed more from the employer side of things; classifying models who are excessively thin as a health risk, or a product of corporate negligence, something so that it becomes a monetary problem for the company, rather than some kind of high-handed moral statement handed down from on high.Why not put the money into educating people that ARE overweight? Instead of trying to limit and industry that has some, but still a limited influence on people's lifestyles. I would argue that TV and movies are much more likely to influence the average citizen, then fashion.

this is the most surreal spam ever. just mashed a bunch of regular posts together

Originally Posted by Captain Winky

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Unfortunately, as fatasses have become the majority, it isn't a question of appeasing them, it's a question of them justifying living the disgusting lifestyles they live and telling themselves it's OK to be a fat tub of ****.

look how dumb you are

I'm surprised some people interpreted this as fat people getting their way.