Banning Skinny Models - That's Reverse Discrimination My Friends

Yes, we have an obesity problem in our culture, but we also have a problem with young girls and anorexia. It appears that we have people on both sides of the spectrum. Further, when people are put behind the camera or behind a TV monitor, generally they look as if they have 5 pounds more weight on them than they do actually. Therefore, the camera technicians, producers, and those choosing the models always look for someone who is about 5 to 10 pounds on the skinny side, because when the picture is taken, they look correct to the viewing audience.

Now then, there was an interesting article in Medical Daily entitled; "Researchers Believe Government Should Ban Skinny Models to Curb Anorexia," published on March 2, 2012 written by Christine Hsu which stated;

"Governments are justified to prevent very skinny models from walking the catwalk and ban photographs and advertisements suggesting that extreme thinness is attractive, according to a group of researchers who found that that social and cultural environment influences on young women is largely responsible for the spread of chronic eating disorder."

Okay so, I would like to talk about a few issues here;

Discrimination
Advertising Chubbiness
Marketing Bigger Breasted Women

One could say we are discriminating against skinny people, just as society often discriminates against fat people. If we don't allow skinny models to be on the billboards, runways, magazine ads, well then we are denying them unemployment. I thought everyone should have equal opportunity in employment - do you see the problem we are getting into here?

If someone has anorexia, and if we don't let these girls become models, then aren't we discriminating against them because of their health condition? We are not allowed to do that in the United States, and yet, many Americans are applauding the European's decision to do this. The government here in the US may also actually ban skinny models. That's crazy, although I do understand the challenges in society with depression and anorexia too.

If we do that, then we will inadvertently be advertising chubbiness, at a time when obesity and diabetes is running rampant across the planet. There are now 100 million Chinese with onset diabetes or actual diabetes. We are exporting our fatness, and now we are trying to justify to ourselves that it's okay to advertise people who are 5 pounds overweight.

Because if you take someone who is a normal weight, and the camera adds 5 pounds, we are basically allowing people to think it's okay to have that first extra five or 10 pounds, 15 or 20, and then where does it stop? This is what I have to ask you today?

Also, we will be marketing the look of bigger breasted women, as if that is better. Because when they have a little more meat on them, and have more fat, and since human breasts are mostly made of fat, we are also telling young skinny girls, that they are somehow inadequate because they don't have big boobs. This will add to people feeling depressed, and they will go out and get boob jobs, so they can fit into what society wants them to be.

Is that any better? Why are we even messing around with this discrimination issue? If we want equal rights, that means everyone, not just fat people. If young women feel depressed for any reason, maybe we need to work on self-esteem instead, what's wrong with this picture in our society?

Maybe it's time that we just got the government out of things like this, and let the industry decide what it wants to do. Let, the freedom of the individual shine through, and we will all be the better off for it. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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