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.

@SchrodingersImmigrant

I think you’ll find they are.

I am healthy, I am certainly not fit. There are fit people with cancer, chronic diseases, etc.
Fit and healthy are not the same thing

Exactly. There are athletes with diabetes, Sir Steve Redgrave for example. And I know of a very fit slim person who recently died of bowel cancer - they put the weight loss down to having taken up running.

Being underweight isn't healthy either.

But it is fair game to comment on it whereas it is "fat shaming" if you comment on people being over weight.

If you want to actually treat your illness, instead of pretending it's a good thing

My GP is also “pretending”. The last time he tested my BP, he said he was deeply envious and wished he could swap. 🤷‍♀️

@ShinyHappySummers

Not sure how to report an ad 🤷🏻‍♀️ And a bit disappointed MN have allowed it I suppose.

You can report your op and write the reason, I've reported one before and posted a screenshot on the mn section and they responded and got it removed.

I think, the ads are just placed by the ad company they use and aren't individually approved, but they can tell them not to run certain ones.

Imagine if mn had to individually approve each cookie based google add😳

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I was also that thin in my early to mid twenties and I wasn’t anorexic. It was just the way I was built. What offended me was being judged and being labelled; unhealthily thin, skeletal etc.

What difference does it make if the photo subjects have had children or not?!?!?!

Aside from that YABU to denigrate anorexia its an illness fgs!

The pictures look badly photoshopped to me.

The darker jeans picture on the right. It looks to me like the jeans don't fit so they've just folded the flap over on top and clipped it. You can even see the clip.

This has to be a really awful company, I doubt the ad will boost any sales

@twitchersanon

What difference does it make if the photo subjects have had children or not?!?!?!

Aside from that YABU to denigrate anorexia its an illness fgs!

The pictures look badly photoshopped to me.

Not denigrating anorexia. I just don't think it should be presented as aspirational FGS!

Thats an edited image. It would put me off on that basis, nevermind the model or disgusting trousers

YABU offensive and disgusting. Anorexia isn’t a body type it’s an illness

They 100% look underweight and anyone here who says otherwise is, imo, full of shit.

You just spread their message even further rather than just reporting it.
Good work op!!!

I mean, they look very thin but am I actually offended? No.

You could only see their toned stomach the trousers are bloody awful like a bag.

The trousers are probably inspired by trend from 2000s and I am biased because I had them😂
Cool ones. With nice sewing job and pockets you could fit stuff for family of for for week long holidays. True beauty!

@PurpleDaisies That zoomed in abs photo is hilarious, it looks like my shed corrugated roof painted in a nude tone.

Click the X on the top right of the add, choose "Stop seeing this ad" then choose "ad was inappropriate".

Done.

Why are you offended?

LMFAO all the posters claiming the photoshopped photos look perfectly normal size to them, if not a bit porky, and they themselves are much thinner. Yes of course you are dear.

Not denigrating anorexia. I just don't think it should be presented as aspirational FGS!

How do you feel about really fat people modelling clothes, as seems to happen a lot now - Lounge Underwear, for example?

That definitely shouldn't be presented as aspirational but for some some reason it's not just accepted it's positively lauded.

[quote EmeraldShamrock]@PurpleDaisies That zoomed in abs photo is hilarious, it looks like my shed corrugated roof painted in a nude tone.[/quote]
That or a lilo! Terrible editing.