To think banning this ad is outrageous?

Ooo ok I seriously think i needed to rtft. Apologies to anyone I've offended. Will ask mumsnet to delete x

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Meh. It’s the ASA. They’ll ‘ban’ anything to keep themselves in the news. The ASA is a limited company, not a government body. It has no power to ban anything. It’s just a feeble excuse for a ‘self-regulator’.

If there’s a genuine scandal - like online scams - they can do nothing. So they go for this sort of thing to get noticed. The ASA’s best ignored.

I can't access the article but everything is banned nowadays...I heard "slim shady" for the first time in decades on the radio at the weekend and I think that there was more censored out of it than in! (Of course I filled in the blanks car karaoke style!)

Yep, this. ^

Can't you see the different between one specific image and "the notion that thin people are unhealthy"?

I think it was ridiculous to ban the advert. She’s a slim, healthy looking woman. Clothes look better modelled by thin people. It’s daft to complain.

No, it wasn't banned because "thin people are unhealthy."

She looks unhealthily thin.

I mean, no. People are not complaining because just looking at a picture of a thin person is "going to make us all lose our minds."

They're complaining because there's a decades-long issue with advertisers using unusually thin people to model clothes, over time this tendency has had a negative impact on how society views womens' bodies, and people expect better from this particular brand.

Personally I think she's simply a slim model whose thinness has been exaggerated by the camera angle, and I wouldn't have bothered to complain about it, but I also understand the perspective of people who objected. Apart from anything else, it's difficult to know what clothes will look like on when they're modelled by people who are significantly thinner than average.

I really didn’t like the fashion trend of clothes always being modelled by emaciated androgynous creatures and thankfully that’s changed a bit now. I think if that’s all girls ever saw, it wouldn’t be great. However this ad is for slim fit trousers and shock horror, some women really are very slim and no doubt might have trouble finding clothes to suit. The woman in the photo doesn’t look starved, she just looks like a naturally slim, small framed person. Seems like a massive overreaction from the ASA.

wtf am I reading on this thread

I’m just as thin if not even smaller than the model yet I run marathons, ultra marathons, triathlons! I cycle 20 odd miles for fun. I do 100 press up and sit ups regularly and can carry my 15 stone husband on my back. I’m strong as hell and fit as hell. No way in hell am I bloody unhealthy

As someone who’s obese.

I think this whole body positivity thing is a load of shit.

I would love to hear her voice, but of course theres tons of people deciding to speak for her. Is that because she is perceived as having nothing to say because she's a model? I dont know what country she is from, assuming an African country, lots of different communities in Africa have physiques just like this, is that to say there is something wrong with them? I think they'd have something to say about that

I think then ads need to stop featuring unhealthy weights both over and under weight - as this is ridiculous.

a beautiful woman who is very slim, probably have a low unhealthy bmi- this is nothing compared to all the plus size models who have a higher deviation from
a healthy bmi

Maybe the poor models themselves didn’t get off quite so easily? If ads using anorexic models are banned, it prevents already thin models being forced to starve themselves by unscrupulous agents.

And the model in this advert has an undeniable lollipop head.

I disagree, she looks petite but not ill.

Also - double standards everywhere as there are plenty on adverts featuring ‘body positive’ overweight women and that’s not healthy, either. But I’m sure I will get flamed for that.
I think any retailer should use models appropriate to the size range they sell. Potential buyers want to see the outfit on as similarly sized person as possible. Does M&S sell UK size 6? If so then those images should be available, as can models up to UK 24 (I think that is the biggest size in M&S?).

She's also still on the M+S website in other outfits

Although to be fair Im amazed they found anything to fit her

Average everyday people are almost certainly going to be overweight.

How is that ok to have as a standard?

Why not put a fag in their hand as well?

Thank you for posting something that can actually be read

In answer to the OPs query, yes I think its offensive to make out theres something wrong with her, its her physique and figure

Yep absolutely, totally right to ban it. I have an Anorexic daughter.

You are unreasonable for being another poster that posts links to articles that we cant read without a subscription. Times and Telegraph articles cant be seen.