A real person? My guess would be, not for long!

P.S. If true, get that girl some food pronto!!

“For over 42 years we have built a brand based on quality and integrity. After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a women’s body. We have addressed the problem and going forward will take every precaution to ensure that the caliber of our artwork represents our brand appropriately.”

No answer to the question about ms Hamilton’s reaction, thankfully that came in the newspaper today. The lawyer sending Polo Ralph Lauren’s DCMA (or whatever you call the “Copyright Act” over and down there) requests has not responded yet.

Wait…maybe she’s double jointed….that might explain the obscene angle of her wrist…..ahahahahaha!

Actually no I don’t think it’s the constant bombardment of media that a size 0-4 is the most “attractive” range for the female body. I think it’s the enforcement of this idea through the size selection in stores, stores that only offer small sizes, and the general apathy given to people who are larger than a 12-14.

Sorry, it’s just not media. It’s the whole package.

Ok, that’s a loaded question, but I don’t see how the fashion industry by itself can do much damage. It is the magazines that actually control the message distribution and they are often run by women.

Personally, I think the major cause of anorexia is peer pressure. A magazine can only cause so much damage. It is your friends constantly talking about being thin and how fat other people are that really does the damage.

This is a wind-up, Xeni, is it not?

Yeah, but… no.

“The media” may be a useful scapegoat, but eating disorders have little if anything to do with social pressure – they are EXACTLY as common is societies where big women are considered beautiful.

If anyone ever DID develop an eating disorder due to pictures in magazines, it would make them dumb, not ill…

Lucy, you got some splaining to do!

(And I just had dinner.)

I’m very proud of the people at Boing Boing, not only by refusing to fall to the harrassment, but in your reponse to it.

Bring it on — this one is so bad as to be laughable, but I’m tired of seeing digitally enhanced ideals of what someone else considers beautiful.

This is why the Dove Real Beauty campaigns have ben so popular…they’re real women, with real bodies, who are beautiful even if they don’t look like the “experts” say they should.

The French want to introduce warnings over this sort of stuff. I posted a link to BB a few days ago linking to this, but they ignored it. Maybe time put 1 and 1 together?