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The Council of Fashion Designers of America will issue guidelines discouraging anorexia-suggestive degrees of emaciation but won’t attempt to enforce any binding rules. “Those people could sue, in America they could sue everywhere for prejudice or discrimination,” said council president Stan Herman when the issue came up in the fall. “I wouldn’t touch it with […]

The Council of Fashion Designers of America will issue guidelines discouraging anorexia-suggestive degrees of emaciation but won’t attempt to enforce any binding rules. “Those people could sue, in America they could sue everywhere for prejudice or discrimination,” said council president Stan Herman when the issue came up in the fall. “I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole.” (“New York fashion group to issue guidelines on skinny models”, AFP/Breitbart, Jan. 8; “Skinny model ban ‘discrimination'”, AFP/News.com.au, Sept. 16).

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  • Why is it that people are so bizarre about anorexia but not about the gross obesity that is taking over the US (and now the world). Anorexia has health issues, but not as much as obesity.

  • And there you’re dead wrong David.
    Anorexia can kill in short order, or leave people permanently disabled rapidly.

    But the political propaganda villifying everyone who’s not anorexic (enhanced by the media and especially the fashion industry) has made saying so dangerous and filled the minds of generations with an image that anorexia is good while being even slightly overweight is evil and a sure sign that you’re a socially inept, completely useless leech on society.

  • David: Anorexia is more immediately dangerous. Getting too fat can kill you in 20-40 years. Not eating can kill you NOW.

    And I see plenty of attention given to obesity, too.

    • By markm

  • David,

    Because “overweight” as defined by the CDC is actually most healthy weight to be at, again, according the CDC.

    And because the gerontological data shows the people with more weight are healthier in late life.

    How about because “obesity” is defined so stupidly that many professional atheletes (baseball, basktball, football, etc) are officially obese, many of them grossly?

    Oh, and anorexia (and bulemia, which produces basically the physical effects) can kill you faster, and can have life-altering impacts on your body faster, and that those impacts are often worse.

    In short, obesity doesn’t even register on the same scale of damage to the human body as anorexia.

    • By Deoxy