Thursday, 27 March 2014

Make up your mind, love...

From the BBC:

Dame Sally blamed the way weight was being portrayed by the media and clothes industry.

"I have long been concerned that being underweight is often portrayed as the ideal weight, particularly in the fashion industry.

"Yet I am increasingly concerned that society may be normalising being overweight. "Larger mannequins are being introduced into clothes shops and "size inflation" means that clothes with the same size label have become larger in recent decades.

"And news stories about weight often feature pictures of severely obese people, which are unrepresentative of the majority of overweight people."

Dame Sally also reiterated her belief that a sugar tax may be necessary to combat obesity…


So by putting about horror stories about really fat people, the media are lulling slightly fat people into thinking they're normal… and what effect do all these air brushed size zero pictures have?

Unfortunately the article does not say what new taxes and regulations she would like to see to combat "skinniness".

6 comments:

Kj said...

Excise on cocaine maybe?

Mark Wadsworth said...

Kj, it's not cocaine, these skinny lasses, I think they just don't eat at all.

Sometimes I want to grab them and frog march them to the nearest McDonalds.

Kj said...

That's what I call compassion.

View from the Solent said...

A punitive tax on lettuce is called for.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Kj, I am all heart.

VFTS, I think some of them don't even eat lettuce. And if they did and we taxed it, they'd simply eat less lettuce, not more.

Physiocrat said...

You could put taxes on shoes you can walk in, bicycles, stairs if there is a lift in a building, etc, so that people were forced to ride everywhere and use lifts.