No Skinny Women Wanted!

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I’m glad the Democrats are protecting us. Makes me feel all warm and loved.


Gale A. Brewer- Democrat

Wouldn’t you want to jump [i]her[/i] bones?

[quote]NEW YORK (CNN) – A New York City Council member Thursday proposed pushing sponsors to ban abnormally thin models from walking New York Fashion Week’s runways.

Council member Gail Brewer wants fashion houses to ban any model with a body mass index of less than 18.5 – the cutoff for the World Health Organization’s definition of “normal.”

“We want the designers to offer some clothes that are a little bit more robust,” she also told CNN, “and we certainly don’t want people under the age of 16 to be modeling.”[/quote]

edition.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/sk … index.html

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Madrid Fashion Week also banned freakishly thin models:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5341202.stm

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Um…this is idiotic. Fashion shows have the right to model whoever they want to. Who does this council member think she is?

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I think she got the confidence to do it from the Madrid fashion show BFMatt mentioned, which was a big story a month or two ago… the trend is catching on…

luckily there’s no too-fat cutoff for models, or i’d be out of a job :smiley:

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When will the island of Taiwan follow this trend.

Skinny is unhealthful and ugly.


Anorexic model of Brazil dies
(AP), Updated: 2006-11-17 10:21

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A 21-year-old anorexic model who weighed only 88 pounds has died of generalized infection, a hospital said. Ana Carolina Reston, who had worked in China, Turkey, Mexico and Japan for several modeling agencies, died Tuesday, according to Sao Paulo’s Servidor Publico Hospital.
The hospital said the infection that killed the 5-foot-8-inch model was caused by anorexia nervosa, a disorder characterized by an abnormal fear of becoming obese, an aversion to food and severe weight loss.
“Take care for your children because their loss is irreparable,” Reston’s mother, Miriam, told the O Globo newspaper. “Nothing can make the pain go away. No money in the world is worth the life of your child.”
Reston began her modeling career at the age of 13 after winning a local beauty contest in her hometown of Jundiai, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.
“I noticed something was wrong when she returned from Japan,” Miriam told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper. “She was too thin when she returned and when I told her to eat something, she would say: ‘Mom please don’t fight with me; there is nothing wrong with me, I’m fine.’”
The model’s cousin, Dani Grimaldi, told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper that Reston also battled bulimia, an eating disorder marked by binge eating that is followed by vomiting or the use of laxatives.
The world of high fashion and modeling has long been targeted by critics who say it encourages women and girls to emulate rail-thin models.
In September, a Spanish fashion show responded to such criticism by banning models with a body mass index of less than 18. Body mass index is a calculation doctors normally apply to study obesity, and anyone with an index below 18.5 is considered underweight.
Reston would have had a body mass index of 13.4 at the time of her death, according to a calculator on the Web site of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/…/17/content_735812.htm

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There have been 3 or 4 Brazilian models die of anorexia in the past month or two. That’s all kinds of wrong.

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Kurt Vonnegut wrote about this back in 1961…

instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

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What about women who are naturally skinny? Should they be denied work?

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Doctor Evil’s attraction to skinny women is probably a result of his closeted homosexuality. :laughing:

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I guess the problem, Doc, is that it’s hard to prove that someone is ‘naturally skinny…’

DNA tests are inconclusive.

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There was an interesting article in the NYT about this. Traditionally always Brazilians always liked women with a little bit more in the :howyoudoin: caboose

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I would like to see something done to battle the “popularity of anorexic look”, I’m just not sure enforcing a discriminating policy/rule/law will be effective.

I think it’s very difficult to determine what is abnormally thin and I would worry about discrimination against those models who find themselves on the other side of the line.

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Aren’t they setting a good example for us in the campaign against obesity?

There was this comic book heroine called “Big Bertha” (from Great Lakes Avengers). She was fat, and that gave her some sort of power, I forget what. But in her secret identity, she was a supermodel! She got rid of the fat by vomiting. (One of her comrades-in-arms was Squirrel Girl, if that gives you a sense of how intentionally lame it was.)

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Always happy to oblige a lady, tash.

[quote]I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can’t deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung, wanna pull out your tough
‘Cause you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she’s wearing
I’m hooked and I can’t stop staring
Oh baby, I wanna get wit’cha
And take your picture
My homeboys tried to warn me
But with that butt you got makes me feel so horny
Ooh, Rump-o’-smooth-skin
You say you wanna get in my Benz?
Well, use me, use me
‘Cause you ain’t that average groupy
I’ve seen them dancin’
The hell with romancin’
She’s sweat, wet,
Got it goin’ like a turbo ‘Vette
I’m tired of magazines
Sayin’ flat butts are the thing
Take the average black man and ask him that
She gotta pack much back
So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!)
Has your girlfriend got the butt? (Hell yeah!)
Tell 'em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!)
Shake that healthy butt!
Baby got back!

(LA face with Oakland booty)
Baby got back!

[Sir Mix-a-Lot]
I like ‘em round, and big
And when I’m throwin’ a gig
I just can’t help myself, I’m actin’ like an animal
Now here’s my scandal
I wanna get you home
And ugh, double-up, ugh, ugh
I ain’t talkin’ bout Playboy
‘Cause silicone parts are made for toys
I want ‘em real thick and juicy
So find that juicy double
Mix-a-Lot’s in trouble
Beggin’ for a piece of that bubble
So I’m lookin’ at rock videos
Knock-kneeded bimbos walkin’ like hoes
You can have them bimbos
I’ll keep my women like Flo Jo
A word to the thick soul sistas, I wanna get with ya
I won’t cuss or hit ya
But I gotta be straight when I say I wanna fuck
Til the break of dawn
Baby got it goin’ on
A lot of simps won’t like this song
'Cause them punks like to hit it and quit it
And I’d rather stay and play
'Cause I’m long, and I’m strong
And I’m down to get the friction on
So, ladies! {Yeah!} Ladies! {Yeah}
If you wanna role in my Mercedes {Yeah!}
Then turn around! Stick it out!
Even white boys got to shout
Baby got back!

Baby got back!
Yeah, baby … when it comes to females, Cosmo ain’t got nothin’
to do with my selection. 36-24-36? Ha ha, only if she’s 5’3".

[Sir Mix-a-Lot]
So your girlfriend rolls a Honda, playin’ workout tapes by Fonda
But Fonda ain’t got a motor in the back of her Honda
My anaconda don’t want none
Unless you’ve got buns, hun
You can do side bends or sit-ups,
But please don’t lose that butt
Some brothers wanna play that “hard” role
And tell you that the butt ain’t gold
So they toss it and leave it
And I pull up quick to retrieve it
So Cosmo says you’re fat
Well I ain’t down with that!
‘Cause your waist is small and your curves are kickin’
And I’m thinkin’ bout stickin’
To the beanpole dames in the magazines:
You ain’t it, Miss Thing!
Give me a sista, I can’t resist her
Red beans and rice didn’t miss her
Some knucklehead tried to dis
'Cause his girls are on my list
He had game but he chose to hit 'em
And I pull up quick to get wit 'em
So ladies, if the butt is round,
And you want a triple X throw down,
Dial 1-900-MIXALOT
And kick them nasty thoughts
Baby got back!
[/quote]

You’re very welcome.

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[quote]Give me a sista, I can’t resist her
Red beans and rice didn’t miss her [/quote]
:slight_smile:

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While the world continues to value, both sexually and financially, women who can both walk AND wear clothes at the same time, young women will try to starve themselves.

You can’t legislate against people who won’t feed themselves.

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Who values those girls sexually? Not me and the vast majority of men that I know. Toothpicks aren’t sexy.

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But the question is unanswered: what about girls who are naturally underweight? Why should the goverment deny her entrance?

This is a no-brainer. It is not the business of government to mandate the body types of private models who can or cannot work at private fashion shows.

If we accept this mandate then we are going to have to take it to the next step. Obesity leads to far more health problems than being underweight…I seem to recall obesity is the second greater killer in the US under smoking. So if a “women’s plus” fashion line chooses to walk out heavy-set models on the runway, is the government to then set an upper weight limit? If not, why not?

Anorexia and bulemia are terrible. Obesity is terrible. But government weight restrictions on private models? Absurd.

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Why not? The government regulates tons of stuff.

Can’t carry a hose and axe to the top of the tower? Sorry, can’t be a firefighter.
Can’t hit the target at 50 yards? Sorry, can’t be a cop.
Can’t drive? Sorry, can’t be a taxi driver for a private cab company.
Can’t pass the bar? Sorry, can’t be a private lawyer in a private firm.

Can’t control your eating habits to be within a healthy range? Sorry, can’t be a model.

You’re smart. Now imagine if all celebrated smarties of the world injected special drugs into their skulls that made their heads the size of watermelons. People would say, yeah, you’re not bad, but that guy’s super-duper smart. Only the druggie smartie people would get on TV or into the smartie magazines, which would show glossy pictures of huge craniums and tell everyone how super-duper smart their owners were. Pretty soon, smart people like you would be seen as average or even dumb because of the all the publicity bestowed upon the druggie smarties and their huge heads. You might come to see the truth, that the druggie smarties are no smarter than everyone else, they just have huge heads. And you might even find someone special who thinks that you’re smart, small skull and all. Then you have a kid. For the first few years everything’s fine, but then you notice him watching all the smartie TV shows. At dinner one night he says to you, “I’m so dumb,” and when you ask him why he says, “because my skull’s so tiny!” So you stop him from watching American’s Next Top Smartie and shrink his allowance so he can’t buy any more smartie magazines, but you can’t take him out of school, which, for some reason has more and more huge-headed students than it did before. You tell him that he’s just as smart as the druggies and you tell him how unhealthy the drugs are. Things go well for a while. Then you find a syringe under his bed.

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Shittt, you should come to NYC. Man, men with money, some and none, fall all over these girls. Don’t pay attention to the reports, the NY socialites(sp)aren’t going to let women like Roise and Queen Latifha get on the runway.

Hell, Tyra Banks, a former model herself, has been recently laughed at in the tabloids for gaining weight (she’s 161 ) :unamused:

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