To be pissed off with Sidiq Khan

[NatashaAnnKelly]

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?

[Anon2017]

censorship*

[Anon2017]

I'd rather not live in a world with spurious cencorship so as not to offened all and sundry, I can get just as offended by a picture of a fat person than I can of a skinny person, offence is subjective.

[KungFuPandaWorksOut16]

I never got the point of " children look upto them" or "they influence a younger generation"
Teach your child that not everything you see on TV is real, airbrushing, makeup and hairstylists on hand.
That they are paid a vast amount to plug certain products.
Teach them it's not unusual for a bit of cellulite or stretch marks. Boobs stents always perfectly sized and round, acne will occur etc.

I loved Lindsay Lohan when younger, she was classed as a role model. I haven't decided to go down the path she went down because she was a role model.
Chris brown is another example, he was/is a role model for youngsters. When he committed DV on Rihanna there wasn't a sudden rise in DV because people copied him.

If I had seen that poster back when I was a teenager I would have laughed and made the comment "airbrushed much".

It's a poster of a celebrity with a body she worked hard for, I don't see what the point in getting worked up is.

[supermoon100]

I don't consider the ad to be offensive and I woukd consider myself a feminist. What I see is a celebrity endorsement from what I consider to be a vacuous low rent celebrity albeit with a rocking body, one I would love to have, but never have had and never will. But do you know what, I've got a pretty nice body too. Will never be a model but I get by. Never understood women who object to cool sexy pics of other women and I won't be buying protein shakes.

[BellonaBelladonna]

It's Sadiq

[luella86]

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.

[PidgeyfinderGeneral]

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.

[MaidOfStars]

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

misses point

[NatashaAnnKelly]

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.

[luella86]

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?

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

[auntyhiro]

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?

[NatashaAnnKelly]

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

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

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.

[MaryWortleyMontagu]

It's sadiq not sidiq.

[auntyhiro]

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

[NatashaAnnKelly]

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

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

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

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.

[SuperSheepdog]

Yanbu he breaks a lot of promises.

[auntyhiro]

YABU to suggest not being obese is unrealistic

[Fighterofthenightman]

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.

[BoneyBackJefferson]

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

[GladAllOver]

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

[DrivingMeBonkers]

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".

[originalbiglymavis]

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

[NatashaAnnKelly]

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