April 15th, 2008 1:30 PM Eastern
France: No More ‘Extreme Thinness’
by Jessica Doyle
The French parliament’s lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness.
The National Assembly approved the bill in a series of votes Tuesday, after the legislation won unanimous support from the ruling conservative UMP party. It goes to the Senate in the coming weeks.
Do you think the media contributes to society’s obsession with thinness?
Tags: anorexia nervosa, extreme thinness, fashion magazines, France, French parliament, National Assembly
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Stupid!
Legislate weight? Legislate appearance? Lets see, IMO, it is good for people, especially leaders, to stand up for things we know deep in our hearts is the right thing to do. On the other hand, isn’t this a form of curtailing free speech? On the other hand, folks have gone nuts with super skinny ever since Twiggy about 50 year ago. Since then all kinds of heath nuts, clean living nuts, and combos of them (who 50 years ago would have been labeled a nut like Howard Hughes) are attracting followers or get airtime/press time, like they are a majority or mainstream. I guess the point is, I feel it is good for leaders to make good comments. I think it is bad to curtail free speech. I think it is bad when marginal types are given any airtime or free press to masses especially when folks know, down deep in their hearts, the folks are wackos but do it anyway just to get money/power (yeah, reporters gotta eat too and yeah, they gotta sell their stuff, the more shocking, sensational, it is the more opportunity they have to make a splash). I am going to get some more morning coffee, care to join me?
THE FRENCH ARE AWSOME AND REALLY SMART FOR THIS