Because it promotes a body image that is unattainable for a normal, healthy full-grown woman. Pre-pubescent standards are awash within the fashion industry, with regular women feeling inadequate for merely being at their physical maturity. Young teen girls lack hips, large breasts, arm fat, thigh fat, tummy fat, and all those wonderful lumps and bumps that make up full-formed woman.
I dunno. Something about banning someone from a profession they love and work hard at just because they're a certain age just leaves me cold. I'd hate to be in that position. Couldn't they, I dunno, use BMI or something that actually addresses that problem instead of age?
No. I don't think you're making an important connection here, dude. These girls aren't modelling clothes for their age group. They're not wearing clothes made for young teens. They're wearing designer clothes that are meant to be on grown women, and then this spreads the standard that grown women should be built like prepubescent girls. Do you realise the damage, mentally and physically, that does to the female population?
Fuck little miss skinny's dreams. There are much better things to be than a model anyway. Seriously, I am - I'm a laid back, cruisy person about most things, but this sort of thing? I'm a complete cunt. I'm very, VERY glad that this measure has been put in place.
She's fourteen. She should be: - going to school - doing homework - having crushes on boys in her class (and possibly going out on group dates) - playing games with friends and family - developing hobbies
She should not be: - working at a level that takes up so much time that it will cause her to miss school and very likely be held back one or more years (which is what happens at this level of the industry) - working in locations far away from family and frieds (again, a requirement for modelling work at that level) - working in an environment that fosters extreme sexuality; I'm not saying she'll be pressured or forced into anything, but she's fourteen, she might well feel sleeping with the photographer is something she should do, because the other models are - hell, she's fourteen. SHE SHOULDN'T BE WORKING AT ALL, THAT'S CHILD LABOUR!
I'm not going to argue how a advertisements showing a child's body wearing adult clothing makes proportional adult women look fat in comparison and the harm that does, because honestly there's not much to say if to you a string of numbers is more convincing than a photograph. (Because that's the problem in a nutshell - you can look at the numbers that say you're a good weight till the cows come home, but if you look at yourself in a photo of a dress and compare it with a photo of a tall child wearing that dress, you look fat.)
I too am happy that only models who are of legal age to work in Australia will be employed. Yay for non-exploitation of children!
Yeah, I was *this* close to going "Dudes... it's okay!" Then I figured that, despite this being my journal, it's still the internet and Lothar's a big boy so... *shrugs*. He knows I love him. :) (At least I hope he does!!)
Well he certainly knows now. It just struck me as funny because it all started with him asking 'why is someone being banned from modelling clothes?' It's like a guy completely innocently walking into some femme-nazi rally and asking 'Does anyone have a good recipie for pie?'
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Date: 2008-04-12 01:28 am (UTC)Hence - bannage.
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Date: 2008-04-12 01:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-12 01:48 am (UTC)Fuck little miss skinny's dreams. There are much better things to be than a model anyway. Seriously, I am - I'm a laid back, cruisy person about most things, but this sort of thing? I'm a complete cunt. I'm very, VERY glad that this measure has been put in place.
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Date: 2008-04-12 01:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-12 02:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-12 02:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-12 12:13 pm (UTC)She's fourteen. She should be:
- going to school
- doing homework
- having crushes on boys in her class (and possibly going out on group dates)
- playing games with friends and family
- developing hobbies
She should not be:
- working at a level that takes up so much time that it will cause her to miss school and very likely be held back one or more years (which is what happens at this level of the industry)
- working in locations far away from family and frieds (again, a requirement for modelling work at that level)
- working in an environment that fosters extreme sexuality; I'm not saying she'll be pressured or forced into anything, but she's fourteen, she might well feel sleeping with the photographer is something she should do, because the other models are
- hell, she's fourteen. SHE SHOULDN'T BE WORKING AT ALL, THAT'S CHILD LABOUR!
I'm not going to argue how a advertisements showing a child's body wearing adult clothing makes proportional adult women look fat in comparison and the harm that does, because honestly there's not much to say if to you a string of numbers is more convincing than a photograph. (Because that's the problem in a nutshell - you can look at the numbers that say you're a good weight till the cows come home, but if you look at yourself in a photo of a dress and compare it with a photo of a tall child wearing that dress, you look fat.)
I too am happy that only models who are of legal age to work in Australia will be employed. Yay for non-exploitation of children!
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Date: 2008-04-12 12:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-13 01:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-13 06:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-13 06:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-13 06:29 am (UTC)It's like a guy completely innocently walking into some femme-nazi rally and asking 'Does anyone have a good recipie for pie?'
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Date: 2008-04-13 06:31 am (UTC)I may be a feminist but I make a good cake. :D