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UK Considers Banning ‘Body Shaming’ Ads Featuring Thin Women
breitbart ^ | TOM CICCOTTA

Posted on 05/21/2018 2:08:52 PM PDT by davikkm

A new program in the United Kingdom seeks to ban advertisements featuring thin women. The Committee of Advertising Practice, which provides all guidelines and restrictions for advertisements throughout various mediums in the United Kingdom, is considering adopting a proposal that would ban the use of “body shaming” advertisements featuring thin women. The proposal would also eliminate ads that feature gender stereotypes such as a man struggling to change a baby’s diaper or a woman failing to park a car.

Ella Smillie, the lead on the proposal, argued that certain forms of stereotyping can be harmful. “Our review of the evidence strongly indicates that particular forms of gender stereotypes in ads can contribute to harm for adults and children by limiting how people see themselves and how others see them and the life decisions they take.”

In 2015, fitness company Protein World came under fire over an ad campaign featuring a thin female model. Some called for Protein World to “burn to the ground” for their use of the model, which allegedly caused body insecurity issues in those who viewed the ad. Under Smillie’s proposal, advertisements featuring models with rare or unusual physiques would not be permitted.

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To: RightGeek

Roll them around in flour to find the wet spot.

I’m sorry. To the corner I go...

5.56mm


21 posted on 05/21/2018 2:30:25 PM PDT by M Kehoe (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: davikkm
And western civilization died, and the world plunged back into the Dark Ages, and the caliphate was born.

Yep. Western Civ had to be stopped. I swear it's the devil at work and in this instance it goes back to the sixties.

22 posted on 05/21/2018 2:35:27 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: M Kehoe

I’d prefer my hand.

See you in the corner...


23 posted on 05/21/2018 2:36:07 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: davikkm

Michelangelo: “Yeah! It looks great! The fat one balances the two skinny ones.”

... once again Monty Python is no longer (that much) weirder than reality.


24 posted on 05/21/2018 2:36:38 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: EEGator

We should keep in mind that over 2 million people a day read FR.

Nah.

Flour works best...

5.56mm


25 posted on 05/21/2018 2:45:17 PM PDT by M Kehoe (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: davikkm

I was fat when I was young, and trust me, even if they banned pictures of all people, the fat ones would still know they’re fat, and that it’s not as desirable as not being fat.


26 posted on 05/21/2018 2:46:17 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: davikkm
femiNAZIism writ large...
27 posted on 05/21/2018 2:47:40 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: davikkm

How do you get off this insane planet? I want out at the next stop.


28 posted on 05/21/2018 2:50:27 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: RightGeek

Fat women in the Sahara?

One word.

Shade!!


29 posted on 05/21/2018 2:51:10 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Chode
femiNAZIism writ large...

Good pun, if intended.............

30 posted on 05/21/2018 2:51:47 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: davikkm

Discrimination against thin women.


31 posted on 05/21/2018 2:52:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: goldstategop

” It’s a good thing she is big boned. She needs them to carry around all the extra fat.”


32 posted on 05/21/2018 2:53:36 PM PDT by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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Well, if I was selling cheesecakes, candy bars, ice cream, etc, I wouldn’t mind so much. Advertise to my main market WITH my main market.

If I was selling high fashion clothes, perfumes, jewelery, resort vacations, cars etc, it would hurt, because no one wants to look at fat people for stuff like that.


33 posted on 05/21/2018 2:54:06 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Gay State Conservative

Newcastle ale caused quite a stir with this one.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7k2h/newcastle-brown-ale-brewers-hands


34 posted on 05/21/2018 3:05:00 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: davikkm
Wow, Megan Markle solved all of the UK problems...now they have time for this BS... 😁
35 posted on 05/21/2018 3:16:09 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: davikkm
Those Brits better get after eBay UK. They are selling "Female Fat Stripper Suits." Seems like they have a Goldilocks problem. Not too fat, not too thin, but just right.


36 posted on 05/21/2018 3:17:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: arrogantsob

Female fashion models tend to look like twelve year old boys for the simple reason that the fashion industry is dominated by homosexual pederasts.

One you acknowledge this easy-to-confirm fact then what goes on in the fashion industry makes sense.


37 posted on 05/21/2018 3:23:13 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: davikkm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron


38 posted on 05/21/2018 3:25:17 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: davikkm

The unarmed subjects dare not protest.


39 posted on 05/21/2018 3:57:45 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: doorgunner69

naa, it just worked out that way...


40 posted on 05/21/2018 4:22:05 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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