Posted by paolo on 16/9/2006, 23:22:30, in reply to "Progressive or Oppressive?" This particular instance of political correctness has been caused by the death of Uruguayan fashion model Luisel Ramos, who tragically collapsed and died at a runway show in Montevideo. Her father claimed she had hardly eaten anything for two months although her boyfriend said they had been out for a pizza the night before. Luisel was 5'10" and weighed 125ibs. The council have promised that a nutritional expert will be on hand to check every model taking part in the shows, and that any woman found to have a BMI of below 16 will receive medical treatment. Have you ever read anything so ridiculous? Is the medical treatment compulsory I wonder? What will it consist of? What if the model refuses the treatment? Will she be fined or blacklisted? Two points : 1) I myself was extremely thin during my teenage years and would have failed the BMI test spectacularly. This despite the fact that I used to eat every type of junk food imaginable. Clearly I was the right weight for me regardless of the fact that some index decrees otherwise. Are we really supposed to believe that everyone of the same height should be roughly the same weight as each other? According to the BMI a peak Mike Tyson was about 50lbs overweight! 2) The next time there is a track and field meeting in Madrid will the Ethiopian and Kenyan athletes have to undergo a BMI check before being allowed to compete? Most of these athletes are stick thin and I would think about 99% of them would fail it. But as we all know , there would be absolutely no kudos whatsoever in pontificating about African athletes, would there.... If this rather sinister trend continues then I hope some of the models and their agencies take legal action. They could actually use the deplorable Human Rights Act to do so and what a delicious irony that would be.
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The world today is full of interfering busybodies. Theses are the type of people who arrogantly consider themselves more enlightened
and sophisticated than previous generations, and who are determined to inflict their views, beliefs and ideologies on every aspect of society. In the UK they infest national and local government and other institutions such as the judiciary and the police force. Consequently we are always being told told what to do, what to say, what to think.
Nothing of course satisfies the self aggrandising and self important tendencies of these 'intelligentsia' than to impose bans. Therefore amid much chest puffing, the smug self satisfied officials of Madrid City Council have decided that they can ban fashion models whose weight does not conform to a level stipulated by something called the Body Mass Index. Is Madrid really run so efficiently that the council haven't got anything better to do with their time?
The argument that young girls look up to fashion models as role models and starve themselves trying to emulate them is a very dubious one. You only need to walk around to see the number of people that are overweight. http://www.iotf.org/media/IOTFNov11briefing.pdf
(A problem incidentally helped along by the same 'clever' people who actively discourage competitive sport in schools and then whine about the obesity epidemic in young people).
I see now that Letizia Moratti, the opportunist Mayor of Milan (who is about as popular there as Mussolini was in his last days) has jumped on the bandwagon, blathering on about imposing similar sanctions.
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