The Thin End Of The Wedge?

[Khandro]

Here we go, the Muslim agenda commences;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/body-shaming-adverts-banned-london-transport-tube-sadiq-khan-a7079591.html

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// I have a daughter, a skinny one, I would never want her to sit at a bus stop and think she should be thinner than she is. ///

What is the problem, if your daughter is as skinny as you say she is, then the girl she sees in the advert is just the same as she is, so she has nothing to worry about?

/// Same goes for my sons. ///

Regarding your sons, are any of them ever likely to ever want to fit into a bikini?

[naomi24]

sp, people can be offended by anything - especially if they possess vivid imaginations. That doesn't mean that everything must be deemed offensive. I, personally, see nothing offensive in a picture of a girl in a bikini.

[sp1814]

naomi24

Some people are offender by it, and others think it's inappropriate for public consumption.

Here's an example...many men (and quite a few women think this is a stunning picture):

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e0/2b/e4/e02be4cb5c72099635d5162d32658a26.jpg

I too think it's a beautiful image, but it's not appropriate to be pasted on billboards.

Magazines aimed at adults yes - but there's a place for such imagery, and buses and tubes is not it.

If the advert than Khan is banning from tubes and buses appeared in magazines, it wouldn't be a big deal.

[ummmm]

AOG...I don't want her to think she should be the weight she is. I want her to be her natural weight by eating good food and being active...,not using diet pills.

She's lucky, she's naturally slim but would you really encourage a daughter, or a grand daughter of yours to take these unhealthy pills?

[sp1814]

AOG / naomi24

I personally am not offended by the image. It ha no impact on me...but I can absolutely see what others object to.

I think it's sexualised, but to be honest - when I saw it on the tube last year, I thought, "That's a bit strong." but it's not like I felt like writing to my local MP when I got home.

Oh, in answer to your question - yeah, I'm a Muslim.

For Funks Sake.

[sp1814]

Go to Google and search for the following:

FHM cover girls

Then

Nuts cover girls

You will see that the photos are remarkably similar to the advert under discussion.

And then think of every Weight Watchers advert you see on telly. You don't get Photoshopped models. You get normal, healthy looking women.

Oh and another thing...diet suppliments???

Really?

Does anyone still believe they actually work?

One question - at exactly which point does it stop being okay? Is topless okay? On all fours? Suggestively licking an ice-lolly? What about the recent Jack Wills campaign? Is that okay?

Just wondering where the line is drawn...

[Khandro]

sp; //Just wondering where the line is drawn.//

Me too, Khan's! This was just discussed on PM and one woman questioned exactly where this mayor will want to go next. Of course, no question was dared to be raised as I have, about his own religious agenda.

[jambutty]

Totally agree with you Khandro. Have people got nothing better to do than complain about an ad??

[Ellipsis]

sp, you must be aware that there are different ways of advertising a product, e.g. "sell the sizzle not the sausage".

When advertising meal replacements, you could show a picture of the meal replacement box (sausage) - or you could show a picture of the body you aspire to (sizzle).

> How many people at a bus stop or tube station have the time to read the small print?

That makes the very point that the same censorship would apply no matter what the product. You are complaining about something very different to sp, ummm - he objects to the image, you object to the product and would be quite happy (it seems) if the image was used to sell another product. Khan appears, like sp, to object to the image ...

> I agree with Ellipsis. Whatever the advert is for it's intended to encourage people to "Get a body like this".

Thank you, that's exactly it.

[ummmm]

Yes, you're right, I do disagree with the product, I'm also not so happy with the image.

Our young ladies could be two sizes bigger than the lady in the advert and still be in a perfectly healthy range.

[naomi24]

So do we ban all adverts that portray pictures of slim girls in bikinis, Ummmm, just in case someone larger gets upset? Where does it all end?

[ummmm]

Read what I posted, Naomi!!!

[naomi24]

I read what you posted, Ummmm. You disagree with the product and you're also not so happy with the image.

[webbo3]

Gromit@ 12:19

//1700 mainly young girls die in this country of anorexia every year, so there is a very good reason to ban these adverts that encourage it. //

What about all the magazines they read and the TVs programs they watch, will he ban all those in London as well.



Dave.

[-Talbot-]

I don't see this as any thin end of the wedge (unless the wedge starts of as a log at the thick end and ends up as tracing paper at the thin end)

I don't see what sp sees in the advert, maybe I'm confused (maybe sp is confused?)

Anyhow here's someone else looking sexually available

http://tinyurl.com/zbemt8t

[Togo]

By the look on his face, and the way he's standing, he looks as if he has already availed himself Talbot.

[sp1814]

webbo / naomi24

The Mayor doesn't have jurisdiction over tv and print adverts. That's down to the ASA.

This particular advert has been the source of controversy for a few months. He has deemed that it will no longer appear on public transport. As Mayor, he has a right to listen to Londoners and decide policy.

The last Mayor (rightly in my opinion) did this with the ban on the 'Ex gay' advert.

[sp1814]

-Talbot- what has Sheldon Cooper got to do with it?

[naomi24]

sp, according to their website the ASA has jurisdiction over 'banner and display ads'. I'm not sure what that means exactly. Do you know?

[Khandro]

This I maintain is an old ad (2015), and being used to promote a Muslim-led agenda and should have nothing whatsoever to do with the mandate of the mayor of the capital of England. He says "As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end".
As a father of two daughters also, none of these pictures would make them believe that they are being demeaned or in any way "ashamed of their bodies".
His stance is purely and simply a product of his warped mind and religion.