AIBU to find these ads with anorexic looking young women offensive?

[ShinyHappySummers]

They keep popping up on MN today. Hardly chosen the best demographic here IMO either.

@spotcheck

It looks photoshopped?

Thought the same. You can see the errors.

That said, photoshopping a woman's body into unnatural thinness is offensive in itself. YANBU, OP.

They just look slim. Seeing a picture of a certain body type and referring to it as “anorexic” is far more offensive IMO.

@MistyGreenAndBlue

On every thread like this there are always a few people who, when faced with an extremely thin woman (whether photoshopped or not) who declare that we've all got so fat that we have lost sight of a healthy weight and that the woman in the picture ( even if she looks positively skeletal) looks perfectly healthy to them. Every time. It's horseshit. We can still tell if someone is overweight or obese. And we can see clearly when someone looks far too thin. Dress sizes may have been changed for some reason but that was decades ago now. They've been the same for most of my adult life. And in any case, I can assure you I know I'm too fat and would know it whether my dress size was labelled a 10 or a 20.

Yep. There are a lot of women who like to pretend that models don't stuff themselves with wet cotton wool to dampen the gnawing hunger pangs.

The trousers are huge, the models are slender and have their photos have been stretched out of all proportion. No idea why as it doesn't make the hideous trousers any more marketable! It's disturbing that people think that doing that will sell them though.

They definitely look altered to me so they aren’t really doing their job (showing what the trousers would look like) but offensive is subjective.

Morbidly obese models are an intentional and dangerous attempt to make obesity fashionable and the company to appear woke. I think morbidly obese people have the right to be happy but they are not healthy. They are dangerously at risk and I despise the current movement to normalise obesity, young girls may think it's safe and healthy.

The 'skinny models are not good role models' thing has been done to death. Although truthful that anorexic models shouldn't be allowed in the industry, when I see an advert with really underweight and poorly photoshopped models I just think 'wow that company is out of date and needs to get with the times.' Or that it's not a UK company and is from a region where this is still the norm. I don't get offended I just give a big eye roll and think less of the company.

download an ad blocker - then you won't see the ads?

@pinkcircustop

See we have such a problem in this country with weight than when there’s slim women about people think it’s anorexic.

What’s actually unhealthy is having plus size women advertising clothes because we shouldn’t be normalising being overweight.

As much as I hate to admit it…this is absolutely correct. I always have battled with my weight. I come from a long line of short, stocky, women and men. In recent years I’ve found the motivation harder because I’ve looked around me and thought “meh it is becoming more normal!” I’ve gone from just a bit over weight, to a good two stones overweight! I’m not the only one out of my friends either.

@pinkcircustop

See we have such a problem in this country with weight than when there’s slim women about people think it’s anorexic.

What’s actually unhealthy is having plus size women advertising clothes because we shouldn’t be normalising being overweight.

Oh come on. I’m a fatty bumbum but nevertheless these photos don’t represent a healthy body image. Your argument actually undermines the important point that you’re making.

@StrongCoffeAvalanche

Morbidly obese models are an intentional and dangerous attempt to make obesity fashionable and the company to appear woke. I think morbidly obese people have the right to be happy but they are not healthy. They are dangerously at risk and I despise the current movement to normalise obesity, young girls may think it's safe and healthy.

The 'skinny models are not good role models' thing has been done to death. Although truthful that anorexic models shouldn't be allowed in the industry, when I see an advert with really underweight and poorly photoshopped models I just think 'wow that company is out of date and needs to get with the times.' Or that it's not a UK company and is from a region where this is still the norm. I don't get offended I just give a big eye roll and think less of the company.

To be fair re morbidly obese, I’m 22 stone - I find if I see someone my weight who looks happy and is treated kindly I feel slightly better about myself. Which means I don’t comfort eat as much and do more exercise . So lose a bit of weight .

That sounds ridiculous but it is how I feel, if I feel happy and good and confident in myself I start losing - if I’m constantly reminded how fat and ugly and obese I am I gain even more .

So body positivity and plus size modelling can have benefits of sorts . I wouldn’t see a woman my size and think, oooh, I want to be that fat - but I would think, maybe I’m not totally worthless and disgusting . Which translates into better self care which eventually filters into weight loss .

I don’t know if that makes sense, it probably sounds stupid tbh !!

No one’s abs actually look like that.

Plenty of people's abs look like that. Every Olympic marathoner's abs look like that. The models may be photoshopped, but the assumption that no one could look like that without having serious health problems is just wrong.

@PurpleDaisies

Also sick of seeing all slim, toned women being labelled as anorexic. Seeing muscles isn't indicative of being underweight FFS.

Those aren’t slim toned women. They’re ridiculous photoshopped caricatures. No one’s abs actually look like that. They’ve merged a person with a corrugated iron panel.

100%! I'm slim, muscular and have visible abs but I don't look like a stretched out alien. These photos have been altered so much, they look like the aliens from Mars Attacks! Who the actual fuck is looking at these utterly inhuman images and pouting that they look like that and shouldn't be insulted?

And don't come at me with bullshit about how some fat people are healthy. They aren't.

They certainly can be. A friend went for a pre op assessment last week. After “cycling” for 15 minutes uphill, the anaesthetist pronounced her at the fit end of the spectrum. She weighs 16st if she weighs an oz.

I’m no lightweight either yet have blood pressure so low I’m dizzy if I stand up too quickly. I’m also the only person in my friendship group not to be taking medication for a chronic condition.

What I find risible is the poster the other day who had a hospital appointment and the doctor told her being significantly over weight wasn't healthy and to lose weight.

She called it fat shaming and was offended. It's beyond a joke now. It isn't fat shaming to give someone medical advice that their weight is affecting their health.

I was very slim until my mid twenties. You could count my ribs without touching if I stretched even a tiny amount. I wasn't anorexic I ate entire pizzas to myself, chocolate bars, crisps, etc

Being very fat is unhealthy, sorry but it is. It isn't about body confidence and not being shamed for it. I'm so bored of people thinking it is acceptable to be very overweight but not very slim.

@JustFrustrated everything you said!

@PurpleOkapi

No one’s abs actually look like that.

Plenty of people's abs look like that. Every Olympic marathoner's abs look like that. The models may be photoshopped, but the assumption that no one could look like that without having serious health problems is just wrong.

Nope.

I’ve seen plenty of Olympians on tv. Lots of people at my gym have visible abs.

None look like that. It’s terrible photoshop,

There is some weird photo effect going on their. My son ( fair enough is a bloke so I cant really compair) weighs under 8 stone at 5foot 7 would be hard pushed not to look morbidly obese if he had his photo next to these. Something weird about them I think.

According to the NHS website my son is in the healthy range. Until he hits 18 very soon, only then is he underweight. So that is pretty trim but it's in normal range ( right now that is) by Christmas he will be a adult

@ActonSquirrel

What I find risible is the poster the other day who had a hospital appointment and the doctor told her being significantly over weight wasn't healthy and to lose weight.

She called it fat shaming and was offended. It's beyond a joke now. It isn't fat shaming to give someone medical advice that their weight is affecting their health.

I was very slim until my mid twenties. You could count my ribs without touching if I stretched even a tiny amount. I wasn't anorexic I ate entire pizzas to myself, chocolate bars, crisps, etc

Being very fat is unhealthy, sorry but it is. It isn't about body confidence and not being shamed for it. I'm so bored of people thinking it is acceptable to be very overweight but not very slim.

Being underweight isn't healthy either.

Zoomed in on the “abs” on the left. No real person looks like this.

@TheVolturi

I don't think the images are real.

Even more ridiculous then!

@PurpleDaisies

Zoomed in on the “abs” on the left. No real person looks like this.

Yup.

They show tiny waists but are all those saying they were that size once 5 ft 9-10 with big feet like the models. Or were you petite.

@Blossomtoes

And don't come at me with bullshit about how some fat people are healthy. They aren't.

They certainly can be. A friend went for a pre op assessment last week. After “cycling” for 15 minutes uphill, the anaesthetist pronounced her at the fit end of the spectrum. She weighs 16st if she weighs an oz.

I’m no lightweight either yet have blood pressure so low I’m dizzy if I stand up too quickly. I’m also the only person in my friendship group not to be taking medication for a chronic condition.

Blood pressure that low isn't a good thing. I have blood pressure so low I've ended up in the back of an ambulance 3 times, severely ill from it. And I'd be in more danger if I suffer an injury that causes significant blood loss. I improved it by building excellent cardio-vascular health. When my heart is more efficient, my blood pressure is less likely to drop to dangerous levels.

@Blossomtoes

And don't come at me with bullshit about how some fat people are healthy. They aren't.

They certainly can be. A friend went for a pre op assessment last week. After “cycling” for 15 minutes uphill, the anaesthetist pronounced her at the fit end of the spectrum. She weighs 16st if she weighs an oz.

I’m no lightweight either yet have blood pressure so low I’m dizzy if I stand up too quickly. I’m also the only person in my friendship group not to be taking medication for a chronic condition.

Fit and healthy are not the same thing though

YABU to call anyone else's appearance offensive.

But those images have been Photoshopped badly.