Sadiq Khan shouldn't be able to tell us what is an unhealthy body

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So the London Mayer has banned adverts with “Unhealthy or Unrealistic” body images. Doesn't this just all feed into people these days unaware of what a healthy body image is? This woman is in great shape and looks very healthy to me.

Sorry if there has been a post on this, I find the advanced search here not that great.

The person who wrote that article you linked to it's really fucking thick

definitely a case of brawn over brain

I am fine with seeing Jess Ennis, but not an airbrushed model body shaming us all

Do all the hard-of-thinking people who believe this is motivated by his religion actually understand that this isn't a personal campaign launched by him but that this advert has come under intense criticism for being misleading and offensive from all quarters, including rather significantly the ASA? This advert caused great controversy last year, long before Sadiq Khan was elected mayor. It's really not an Islamic conspiracy. A great many people are offended by it.

And you really, really don't need to worry that images of attractive women will be banned any time soon, or that the sexualised female form will stop being used to sell virtually everything in the foreseeable future.

"How would Sadiq Khan prefer us to dress? In Burquas perhaps?"

Did you really just type that out loud?

From what I can gather, he married a woman who chooses to not cover her hair so he can't feel too strongly that women should dress in traditional Islamic modest dress/hijab.

Adverts showing babies must be very distressing to women and men who have fertility problems

Men with full heads of hair, that's got to be a slap in the face to the poor guy with a receding hairline who feels insecure about his appearance

professor I wasn't saying it had been removed for being offensive, I was saying that it had been removed for dubious health claims.

www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/29/beach-body-ready-ad-faces-formal-inquiry-as-campaign-sparks-outrage

I can't think of many ads where people are made to feel ashamed about their body because they are not overweight like the model.

I don't agree. All adverts as bases around being 'aspirational'. Plus size clothing lines too.

The advert was misleading so it should be banned. But quite honestly I didn't take the message 'you must look like this to go on a beach'

Anymore that I take 'you must look like this to be able to go out and have fun' when plus size models are prancing around laughing hysterically on plus size clothing ads.

Little by little,,step st a time...

Mind you the sexualisation of women has been. going on for a long time. I remember the "say knickers to panties" ad.. It was placed across the tracks where it was not possible to get at it... London Underground (as they were then) had a policy of where they allowed more riskay ads..

I really don't think has anything to do with his religion. It doesn't need to be brought into it

I am fine with seeing Jess Ennis
But a body like hers is unachievable for the vast majority who don't have her genetic ability, the physique of the woman in the beach body add is more achievable than that of jess Ennis

this recipe made me LOLZZZ

it looks like its covered with mould!

www.nestandglow.com/healthy-recipes/mint-chocolate-spirulina-fudge-vegan-and-sweetened-with-xylitol

I do laugh at this wellness malarkey sometimes all the fucking time

No nothing todo with his religion, the foundation of a persons belief system which informs everything he does, of course he's not going oo be influenced by his religion
What a silly idea eh!

stop

it says it 'will last for several weeks in the fridge'. Because it's alive! And Xylitol is what they put in chewing gum.

The whole point of advertising is to play on people's insecurities and make them feel they need to spend their money to reach an ideal for which the bar will always be raised higher. Some adverts cross the very fine line from 'aspirational' to offensive. The beach body caption crosses that line imo.

This really isn't about appeasing those over sensitive fatties that some of you hold in such contempt. It's certainly not about fulfilling a sinister Islamic agenda, as idiots would like to believe.

I think it could well be the OP's blog. The OP and the blog both contain the same spelling mistake for mayor.

Along with the thread title and part of the OP being in the first paragraph of the blog article, word for word.

Yes but glassgarden, adverts showing Jessica Ennis are not generally captioned with the strap line "What Are You Doing To Achieve A Body Like This You Inadequate Average Person".

God, it really needs to be spelled out slowly doesn't it?

Obviously he will now have to ban all images of men with fit looking lean bodies

Quite.

The woman's body doesn't bother me at all, except to make me jealous because I would love to have small breasts. In fact, every photo I have seen of a model or actress since the age of 12, when I developed breasts, has made me miserable with jealousy that I'll never have small breasts.

But what can we do? Her body is genetically unachievable to me, just as mine is genetically unachievable to her (the difference being that she wouldn't want mine )

So, to agree with so many other posters, I don't have a problem with her body, I have a problem with being told that only women who are slim with small breasts are 'beach ready'.

But the point is, Jess Ennis isn't in an advert aimed at making people feel inferior about their own bodies. And I'm pretty sure if you asked her she would refuse to do that.

And the other point is that the Mayor is acting on something which outraged a great many people last year. This isn't his agenda, it's what very many of his constituents wanted. Which is what Mayors ought to be doing.

For those of you who believe this is the Mayor's agenda... do you not read the news?

What?

Was that seriously the strap line on that advert? Was that actually on it?

I admit that I never paid particularly close attention to the advert as my brain filtered it out as "not for me".

I do laugh though at the idea that poor slim people are discriminated against these days. It's like when men complain that they have no rights in comparison to women, or white people tell black people how hard it is to be white.

I've lived for over forty years and could count on one hand the number of times that I've heard someone being insulted for being too slim. Yet I can walk down the street any day of the week and hear people sneering at fat people. (Thankfully I fall into the somewhat invisible middle ground where no one really thinks I'm too big or too small).

Well done Sadiq.

OP your that blog is crap.

I don't know why some people are struggling to see the issue.

The problem isn't the figure the woman has, it is the fact that it is trying to sell a product by saying that all women should aspire to have that exact style of "beach body"

Nobody should tell anyone else what body shape/size they want or should aspire too.

Way to go Sadiq

I'm beach body ready. It happens to be a very generously sized luminous white body, but if I can get to a beach It'll be a beach body :)

It's the wording that needs banning/that ad rather than the model.

I agree with this. The model, while quite likely in possession of surgically or digitally enhanced breasts, is not necessarily too thin.

There are all kinds of bodies – you can see my ribs and I eat very heartily and very well – and so the idea that there is only one acceptable 'beach body' needs stamping out.

As an aside, treacle, I have over the years received and still get plenty of insults and discrimination about being thin –people assuming I'm anorexic, telling me I need to eat more, names like 'skinnymalink' and 'lanky piece of shit'...

I know people insult fat people too, but it's certainly NOT limited to fat people. Again, it's all part of the idea that women's bodies are there to be examined and commented on.