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France considers banning super-skinny models
France 24 ^ | 2015-03-16

Posted on 03/17/2015 9:13:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The French government is expected to throw its weight behind amendments to a new health bill that would ban the fashion world from hiring underweight models, slapping violators with fines or even prison sentences, the health minister said Monday

The bill, which will be debated in parliament on Tuesday, also proposes banning websites and other forums that are viewed as promoting anorexia and other eating disorders.

“This is an important message to young women, young women who see these models as an æsthetic ideal,” Health Minister Marisol Touraine said, adding that the Socialist government is likely to back the bill.

“It’s important for fashion models to say that they need to eat well and take care of their health.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: anorexia; crazypeople; france; skinnymodels
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To: PapaBear3625

That’s a girl? What is she, 12?


21 posted on 03/17/2015 9:42:10 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: DannyTN

Man, that is a tower of a woman! I must admit that I am fascinated...


22 posted on 03/17/2015 9:45:21 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: DannyTN; shibumi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUhtQMoGGF8


23 posted on 03/17/2015 9:48:26 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Olog-hai

The simpler solution is to remove all the homosexual men from fashion industry positions that are supposed to set the standard for heterosexual women.
That’s why all these female models are starved to look like prepubescent boys.


24 posted on 03/17/2015 9:56:50 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: nickcarraway

Women are starving themselves to meet the standards set by gay men running the fashion industry.


25 posted on 03/17/2015 9:57:39 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Olog-hai

bwahahahaha - no glasses - read that as France Plans on BanGing skinny models.. lol - of course I clicked in..

this is much less interesting :D


26 posted on 03/17/2015 9:58:27 AM PDT by acw011 (Great Goooogly Mooogly!)
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To: Olog-hai

If they succeed at banning them, the next move is to unconditionally surrender to them.


27 posted on 03/17/2015 9:59:26 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: tbw2

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have today’s winning post!


28 posted on 03/17/2015 10:04:21 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Banning” them?

Will they be deporting them, killing them, or just forcing them to eat?


29 posted on 03/17/2015 10:14:20 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Olog-hai
We are from France. Beldar and Pry-mate photo: Beldar and Family coneheads_B.jpg Skinny chicks can't gnarfle the garthok.
30 posted on 03/17/2015 10:44:19 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: WayneS

They are just a bunch of ectomorphists!


31 posted on 03/17/2015 10:49:33 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: All

So pretty much Moochelle’s attempt to make the masses healthy has failed and we have to get used to fatties..


32 posted on 03/17/2015 10:52:38 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: tbw2

What women are starving themselves? I thought the idea that anorexia was killing thousands of women a day had been discredited in the 1990s. Besides, people who have anorexia etc. are driven by psychological reasons, not fashion.


33 posted on 03/17/2015 11:16:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: JudyinCanada
Yikes. How can that possibly be considered beautiful?

Well, she *does* have good bone structure.

34 posted on 03/17/2015 11:38:09 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: nickcarraway

A few models, not millions of women. But they are held up as the paragons of beauty.


35 posted on 03/17/2015 2:39:31 PM PDT by tbw2
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