Models forced to have healthy BMIs!

[El]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/08/ap/health/mainD8K0S8QG0.shtml

...I wish it would become a trend.

[Tom/Mutate]

yeah, i read that.   Too bad , I like them stick thin, i think it is more aesthetically pleaseing.

[Callaway]

Different people like different things, but I think a BMI of 18 or over is healthier than one under 18.

Since these gaunt models often spur self-hatred in young girls and this encourages them to starve themselves to look that way, I think this is a good thing.

[Lucifer]

too bloody right, Callaway and PMS Elle.   

[Leto729]

Should have doing this years ago.

[lilia]

I always wondered how the tobacco industry could be sued for people smoking and getting sick, and yet the fashion industry has never been sued for encouraging young women to be unhealthy as well.

[Nomaken]

I like them stick thin myself, but fuck what I want, this is a great fuckin' idea.  (Not that i am pissed at them or think it is all their fault, but i wouldnt be surprised if i wanted stick thin because that is what they gave me and i grew to find attractive.) 

[duncvis]

I always wondered how the tobacco industry could be sued for people smoking and getting sick, and yet the fashion industry has never been sued for encouraging young women to be unhealthy as well.

good point. perhaps if magazines, and designers who insist on skinny models, were to be held responsible for the damage they've done, they might stop fucking doing it.

[purposefulinsanity]

I always wondered how the tobacco industry could be sued for people smoking and getting sick, and yet the fashion industry has never been sued for encouraging young women to be unhealthy as well.

good point. perhaps if magazines, and designers who insist on skinny models, were to be held responsible for the damage they've done, they might stop fucking doing it.

They'd just get round that though by putting a health warning on adverts, etc 

[El]

Might I point out here that a woman can actually be stick-thin and not unhealthy?  There's a difference between a skinny woman and a skeleton.  A person with the lowest healthy BMI is still pretty damn thin, just less likely to pass out during sex.

[McGiver]

kudos.

and pms elle, i also wish that it would become a trend.

[Teejay]

Different people like different things, but I think a BMI of 18 or over is healthier than one under 18.

Since these gaunt models often spur self-hatred in young girls and this encourages them to starve themselves to look that way, I think this is a good thing.

Damn right,

The fashion industry should be encouraging models with a healther weight to model their clothing instead of the stick thin models. But I doubt that is going to happen

[McGiver]

Different people like different things, but I think a BMI of 18 or over is healthier than one under 18.

Since these gaunt models often spur self-hatred in young girls and this encourages them to starve themselves to look that way, I think this is a good thing.

Damn right,

The fashion industry should be encouraging models with a healther weight to model their clothing instead of the stick thin models. But I doubt that is going to happen

it will if france and italy do as spain did.  they won't have a choice.

[Callaway]

The movie stars and models in the 1950's and early 1960's had curves.  Then after Twiggy, they started getting thinner and thinner.  They can't get much thinner than they are now without looking completely anorexic and falling over dead, so I think the pendulum has to start swinging back the other way.  I think Marilyn Monroe was supposed to have been a size 14, which is the size that today's plus size models wear.  Marilyn Monroe is plus size?  There's something wrong with that picture to me.

Who is more sexy?

[Nomaken]

I have seen pictures of female undead from world of warcraft that are sexier than the girl on the right.