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To be pissed off with Sidiq Khan

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NatashaAnnKelly · 17/02/2017 16:23

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/khloe-kardashians-protein-world-leotard-tube-advert-body-shaming-row-london-underground-a7584036.html%3Famp?client=safari

One of his election promises was to ban unrealistic body shamming ads aimed at women. This is 2015 all over again.

As a feminist these ads basically enforce the idea of women being a commodity and only good for being attractive.

Although I understand the fitness advert the advert is all about appearance rather then being healthy or happy.

The ad is especially wrong considering the rumoured surgery the kardashian sisters have had that no workout shake could ever achieve.

Aibu?

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NatashaAnnKelly · 17/02/2017 16:27

Bump

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NatashaAnnKelly · 17/02/2017 16:35

Anyone

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originalbiglymavis · 17/02/2017 16:42

Can't say I blame Sadiq. Isn't it up to the ASA to ban ads?

The ad is very very odd though. She doesn't look like a real person, more like a plastic doll. I had no idea who she was and I see it most days. It wouldn't make me want to but whatever crap it is selling (obviously not aimed at me anyway).

I have no interest in the Kardashians of this world and just find them vacuous irrelevances in real women's lives.

But then I don't have a daughter - maybe I'd be more pissed off if I did.

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NatashaAnnKelly · 17/02/2017 16:54

Well sidiq promised to ban such adverts on TfL which I assume he has control over??

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originalbiglymavis · 17/02/2017 16:56

I remember the one last year. I'd rather he stopped the fucking tube strikes (not looking forward to next week, again).

DrivingMeBonkers · 17/02/2017 17:31

Where is the advert shaming women? It is a celebrity endorsement, it is not saying "if you don't eat this you will be fat or ugly".

GladAllOver · 17/02/2017 17:33

He also promised to plant half a million trees to green up London.
That has been dropped entirely.

BoneyBackJefferson · 17/02/2017 17:33

he is a politician, so I am not sure why you are surprised that he hasn't kept his promise.

Fighterofthenightman · 17/02/2017 17:42

The 'are you beach body ready?' ad implied that if you didn't look like the model, then you weren't ready to reveal your body on a beach.

This advert is asking if you can keep up with a Kardashian? A reality TV figure who most people will not know or give a shit about and certainly not care about 'keeping up' with.

It's not shaming women to have attractive slim women in advertising. Slim, attractive people male and female sell products because they are nice to look at.

Objectification of the female body is a different issue which I agree is insidious and wrong. But I don't go along with the 'body shaming' pov.

auntyhiro · 17/02/2017 18:04

YABU to suggest not being obese is unrealistic

SuperSheepdog · 17/02/2017 18:06

Yanbu he breaks a lot of promises.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 17/02/2017 18:08

Exactly Boney.

Although I think they start off with the best of their intentions, they want to promise the world, then find they can't deliver.

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NatashaAnnKelly · 17/02/2017 19:41

No when did anyone say being unrealistic was not being obese.

It's unrealistic to sell protein shakes based on a surgically enhanced body.

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auntyhiro · 17/02/2017 20:00

I don't think they are selling protein shakes on the premise they will give you fuller lips

There is nothing unobtainable about her body fat/muscle ratio

MaryWortleyMontagu · 17/02/2017 20:01

It's sadiq not sidiq.

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 17/02/2017 20:03

Not bothered by it, it looks so plastic and it's not a good photo, I have no desire whatsoever to look like this.

I do want the trees though.

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NatashaAnnKelly · 17/02/2017 20:15

It is irrelevant if you look up to it or not it's teenage girls. Teen girls look up to the kardashians.

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auntyhiro · 17/02/2017 20:18

Then should they not be banned from tv, radio and twitter?

I dont see young girls getting on the protein and doing exercise is a bad thing, have you seen some of the women on pinterest?

luella86 · 17/02/2017 20:22

As a feminist these ads basically enforce the idea of women being a commodity and only good for being attractive

But if you're a feminist don't you believe a woman has the right to choose how she looks and dresses? As a feminist why are you putting this woman down rather than empowering her?Hmm

I like being skinny and looking fab in a bikini. My body, my choice!

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NatashaAnnKelly · 17/02/2017 20:38

But if you're a feminist don't you believe a woman has the right to choose how she looks and dresses? As a feminist why are you putting this woman down rather than empowering her?hmm

But it shouldn't be shamed on women who don't want that.

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MaidOfStars · 17/02/2017 20:42

You don't get an atse like that drinking protein shakes.

misses point

PidgeyfinderGeneral · 17/02/2017 20:48

Do you think that Sadiq (not Sidiq, at least get his bloody name right) Khan personally approves every advert on public transport?

It is ludicrous to suggest that the Kardashian advert is body-shaming, then use it to call out Khan on election promises. I honestly wonder what goes on in people's heads sometimes.

luella86 · 17/02/2017 21:29

No, OP. It's a choice. I choose not to be shamed by that poster. You obviously do choose to be shamed and that's sad because you should love yourself, poster or no poster.

BellonaBelladonna · 17/02/2017 21:32

It's Sadiq