When asked if models should be weighed in to show that they were not dangerously underweight, famous designer Diane Furstenburg replied "over my dead body". This reflects the view of most of the fashion industry.
What can we as citizens do to show that we to stop the use of dangerously underweight models within the U.S.?
I feel that this practice is morally wrong. What can I do about this as a citizen of the United States?
2007-02-26 07:17:49 · 15 answers · asked by tomatoomelette 1 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
We need to rally for women/corporations in power to endorse more healthful images of women. Boycott/Protest/etc. People are slow to social reform; that's just the way it is .... but if we're loud enough, someone's got to listen.
2007-02-26 10:14:49 · answer #1 · answered by Cristy 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
These women go into the profession for the big bucks involved as well as the life style. They choose to do what they do.
Weather they are capable or not let them do their thing.
This is a free country. These women are in a short term profession and Sadly, eventually they will be moved out for the younger models.
Be-careful for what you wish for, especially in this day and time with all of the equality issues going on.
Your profession may be next in line, opened up for scrutiny.
"Morally wrong", Ya right?. The best thing you can do it leave them alone and mind your own business.
The old saying is, If you cannot stand the heat then get out of the kitchen.
These women know what they are doing and they like what they are doing so again, Just leave them alone.
2007-02-28 07:38:03 · answer #2 · answered by smially 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
initially, a great sort of fashions are the well-liked desirable for all, that's skinny with curves. Very hardly do I see twigs and that i'm an editorial/runway nerd. Our perspectives of what's healthy and what isn't have been skewed. a super sort of the fashions accessible at present are a similar length that the common American female replace right into a technology in the past. I certainly have plenty and many highschool yearbooks from around the country to show this. Ask your mom what length maximum females have been interior the 70's and in the previous. actual, permit's end pushing the definition of curvy till it turns into what we now incredibly comprehend is obese and dangerous. Our prefer to maintain issues the way they're on the runway comes from our subject concerns with weight problems as a manner of existence off of the runway. as quickly as our way of existence has a healthy view on weight and what's "skinny", "fat" and "curvy" and each thing in-between, we can't suggestions seeing fashions of extra various sizes. yet as further and added human beings replace into obese, we wish an get away. we wish a place we are able to look and not manage actuality. clothing on runways are oftentimes exaggerated and does not be worn extremely, in basic terms as fashions are exaggerated and lots extra effective looking than maximum folk on the line, besides.
2016-10-16 13:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can do nothing, they choose that profession, and getting all Big Brothery on them won't do anything but make them dependent on the system. They have that new guideline in Italy about the minimum weight of female models for them to be accepted by judges/etc, but one has to wonder how many of them further abuse themselves because they were rejected for being >too skinny<.
One could also do the most sensible thing; not buy anything related to the fashion industry, thereby cutting off the life blood of the people who place women in these situations. Of course this won't happen, people who rather others suffer than do without.
2007-02-26 07:23:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
You would have to pull together a campaign that fights against the publicism of anorexic models in America. You and others would have to rally against anorexic models being displayed in movies, magazines, media, clothing stores, music industry, etc.... It could work, I would help you!
2007-02-26 14:50:43 · answer #5 · answered by lilyblossom84 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Change current societal norms? As sad as they are, they need to be changed. But they did not become that way over night and they will not be changed over night.
2007-02-27 20:06:22 · answer #6 · answered by Alabama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boycott brands that use such model, protest outside their stores, write letters to editors of fashion magazines and your congressman.
2007-02-26 07:24:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'd imagine boycott the label. If they can not use models that represent the majority of their customers, then boycott
2007-02-26 16:14:56 · answer #8 · answered by butterfly234 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but the place to start is in the increasingly large groups of women who are waiting in line to be treated cruelly.
2007-02-26 07:59:40 · answer #9 · answered by fishman 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Women are the one's who choose to put themselves in these exploitive positions. It is their own choice and it is not "done to" them. Their low self-esteem, their need to be in the lime-light, and their penchant for scads of money are what keeps them there.
There is no way someone can be cruel to you if you're not around. These models choose to be there.
2007-02-26 07:31:15 · answer #10 · answered by Rain 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋