France represents all of totalitarian Europe!

[bobevenson]

French lawmakers on Thursday adopted a bill forcing ultra-thin models to furnish a doctor’s certificate confirming they are healthy and magazines that Photoshop their silhouette to tag the images as “touched up”.

The bill stipulates that models must obtain a medical certificate stating that their health, “assessed in particular in terms of body mass index, is compatible with the practise of the (modelling) profession”.

Breaches of the law will be punishable by up to six months imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros ($82,000).

The lawmakers also voted that images of models that are altered to “make the silhouette narrower or wider” should be labelled “touched up.”

An earlier draft of the bill had caused howls of protest in the fashion industry by proposing that a minimum body mass index (a measure of body fat based on height and weight) be imposed for models.

In the end parliamentarians agreed to let doctors make the call on whether a model is too thin, taking into account a range of criteria, including age, gender and body shape.

An earlier version of the bill also made it an offence punishable by up to a year in jail to encourage excessive thinness, a measure aimed at “pro-ana” websites that are seen extolling and promoting anorexia or bulimia.

That proposal too was excised from the text adopted by the National Assembly or lower house of parliament on Thursday.

In France, an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people — almost all of them adolescents — suffer from anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder with a high mortality rate.

[Arising_uk]

You really should attribute your quotes bobby.

But my gawd thanks for the warning as a totalitarian government stopping false representation in the media! Who'd have thunk?!

[Gary Childress]

I fail to see any scandal here.

EDIT: Other than the fact that the fashion industry is maybe a complete fraud. I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over France trying to regulate it.

[bobevenson]

I fail to see any scandal here.

EDIT: Other than the fact that the fashion industry is maybe a complete fraud. I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over France trying to regulate it.

Gary, it's people like you who let the government control your life, piece by bitter piece.

[bobevenson]

You really should attribute your quotes bobby.

What, you think I'm making this shit up??? Are you saying I know more about totalitarian France than you do???

[Gary Childress]

I fail to see any scandal here.

EDIT: Other than the fact that the fashion industry is maybe a complete fraud. I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over France trying to regulate it.

Gary, it's people like you who let the government control your life, piece by bitter piece.

How is requiring fashion advertisers to acknowledge when they've photoshoped an image "totalitarian"?

[bobevenson]

How is requiring fashion advertisers to acknowledge when they've photoshoped an
image "totalitarian"?

Jesus Christ, Gary, go back to Totalitarianism 1A.

[Gary Childress]

How is requiring fashion advertisers to acknowledge when they've photoshoped an
image "totalitarian"?

Jesus Christ, Gary, go back to Totalitarianism 1A.

Assuming that government is necessary in some form or another for a healthy and functioning society, what is your definition of "totalitarian" and how do France's current measures to regulate the fashion industry meet that definition? Are the majority of French citizens opposed to such measures, for example?

[bobevenson]

How is requiring fashion advertisers to acknowledge when they've photoshoped an
image "totalitarian"?

Jesus Christ, Gary, go back to Totalitarianism 1A.

Assuming that government is necessary in some form or another for a healthy and functioning society, what is your definition of "totalitarian" and how do France's current measures to regulate the fashion industry meet that definition? Are the majority of French citizens opposed to such measures, for example?

Jesus Christ, Gary, doctors certificates and forcing magazines to tag their images as "touched up" virtually defines totalitarianism, and I don't care how many brainwashed motherfuckers in France, or all of Europe for that matter, don't mind, which I guess they don't or they'd be storming the Bastille.

[bobevenson]

How is requiring fashion advertisers to acknowledge when they've photoshoped an
image "totalitarian"?

Jesus Christ, Gary, go back to Totalitarianism 1A.

Assuming that government is necessary in some form or another for a healthy and functioning society, what is your definition of "totalitarian" and how do France's current measures to regulate the fashion industry meet that definition? Are the majority of French citizens opposed to such measures, for example?

Jesus Christ, Gary, doctors certificates and forcing magazines to tag their images as "touched up" virtually defines totalitarianism, and I don't care how many brainwashed motherfuckers in France, or all of Europe for that matter, don't mind, which I guess they don't or they'd be storming the Bastille.

[Arising_uk]

What, you think I'm making this shit up???

Stop shouting, I can hear you.
No bobby, I'm saying you are just cutting and pasting someone else's words so you should attribute them.

Are you saying I know more about totalitarian France than you do???

Firstly, it's not totalitarian and secondly, since you never leave your house I doubt you know much about your own country let alone a foreign one.

[bobevenson]

What, you think I'm making this shit up???

Stop shouting, I can hear you.
No bobby, I'm saying you are just cutting and pasting someone else's words so you should attribute them.

Are you saying I know more about totalitarian France than you do???

Firstly, it's not totalitarian and secondly, since you never leave your house I doubt you know much about your own country let alone a foreign one.

a) Why don't you get off my font size and talk about the size of your ass, which I'm sure is larger than any font size imaginable, b) Do you live in a cave? That news is in every newspaper in that godforsaken Europe, and the fact that you're asking for attribution indicates that you, in fact, do live in a cave, and c) France is about as totalitarian as it gets, and the fact that you don't see this shows how pathetically brainwashed England is if everybody on that stupid little island thinks like you do!

[Arising_uk]

No need to shout bobby, I can hear you you know and it adds no import to your words even though in your head you think it does. What it actually does is make you look like a loon.

a) Why don't you get off my font size and talk about the size of your ass, which I'm sure is larger than any font size imaginable, ...

Nope, my donkey is trim and healthy thanks.

b) Do you live in a cave? That news is in every newspaper in that godforsaken Europe, and the fact that you're asking for attribution indicates that you, in fact, do live in a cave, ...

Is it? You've checked every paper have you? So which paper did you take it from and why do you not attribute it, rather than just cut-paste and stick your shouting font upon it.

and c) France is about as totalitarian as it gets, ...

And N.Korea is the epitome of a liberal democracy.

and the fact that you don't see this shows how pathetically brainwashed England is if everybody on that stupid little island thinks like you do!

The fact is bobby that you are just another loon of the internut persuasion.

[bobevenson]

a) Cut that donkey crap and learn American English, b) You certainly haven't checked any newspapers c) OK, Jesus Christ, I put France in North Korea's camp, and you might as well add every fucking European country to that infamous list, and d) Cut that "shouting" bullshit. You have already made your stupid point. What are you trying to do now, beat a dead horse?

[Gary Childress]

Jesus Christ, Gary, go back to Totalitarianism 1A.

Assuming that government is necessary in some form or another for a healthy and functioning society, what is your definition of "totalitarian" and how do France's current measures to regulate the fashion industry meet that definition? Are the majority of French citizens opposed to such measures, for example?

Jesus Christ, Gary, doctors certificates and forcing magazines to tag their images as "touched up" virtually defines totalitarianism, and I don't care how many brainwashed motherfuckers in France, or all of Europe for that matter, don't mind, which I guess they don't or they'd be storming the Bastille.

Judging from the article the measures are/were being taken due to a perceived connection between adolescents with eating disorders and distorted images of beauty being propagated by the fashion industry. I can think of worse examples of "totalitarianism" than trying to promote the physical as well as spiritual health of adolescents. I mean, when I was growing up public schools were required to promote public health through physical exercise and screening against certain diseases; all of which were forced on us. If that is "totalitarianism" then Americans these days could probably use some.

BTW: What is your stance on fatal police shootings of unarmed citizens in the US who fail to comply with police demands? To me, that is closer to "totalitarianism" than imposing regulations on industry for the public good.