French Women Don’t Get Fat! Politicians In France Propose Airbrush Warnings
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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8:00AM, Wednesday September 23rd 2009
You believed French women looked gorgeous naturally, didn’t you? Quel suprise! Airbrushing is causing unrealistic body images and encouraging eating disorders, said a French politician on Monday as she proposed warning labels on digitally enhanced images. Parlimentarian Valerie Boyer and 50 other French politicians want a “health warning” on airbrushed pics. All enhanced photos would be accompanied by this line: “Photograph retouched to modify the physical appearance of a person.” Under the proposal in France, a company that didn’t include the warning on their retouched ads would be slapped with a trés mal fine of a $54,930, or up to 50 percent the cost of the advertisement. The French proposal comes on the heels of a suggestion by British pols for warning labels of their own. But what we want to know is how long until such a proposal comes to the States, where we just love our Photoshop? (And can you imagine what Anna Wintour would have to say about it?) [Yahoo]
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effing hickster
wrote on September 23 2009 @ 07:18 am: [report]
I would fully support it. Freedom of speech and expression is one thing, but when advertising and media are willingly misleading the public, it’s not right.
shelleatualive
wrote on September 23 2009 @ 08:13 am: [report]
I am all for this! the media gives women such bad self esteem, this might help little girls to realize that no one is perfect
newmakcity
wrote on September 23 2009 @ 09:27 am: [report]
Since we need to warn of explicit images already, I would say some of these photos would fit into that category easily. Have you seen what they do to some of these women?? Seeing a woman with a head so disproportionate to her body that in real life she would easily snap her own neck while attempting to stand up straight horrifies me way more than a nipple. Smack a sticker on that nonsense!