> Like I said....beachwear, underwear...fine. Not slimming products.
"Adverts which make people feel ashamed of their bodies or pressured into looking a certain way" implies that the exact same ad would be a problem whether it was for a bikini, a gym or a "meal replacement or supplement" - it's the way the model looks that's the issue.
Perhaps - but for some reason, the advertisers have used a sexualised image.
Legs spread for absolutely no reason.
Photoshopped waistline.
And the look on her face isn't, "I'm off to the beach."
It's, "I'm sexually available."
I'm no prude, but if I had a 10 year old daughter, I wouldn't want that projected to her every time she got on the bus to school.
I'm coming from it from a different perspective. With me, it's nothing to do with body shaming - it's more to do with the way that women are depicted in adverts.
Women are used as props.
They are sexualised.
They are presented (WAY more than men) as something to attain.
I think it's wrong.
Put it in lads mags, and instead encourage our young girls to become scientists, doctors and mathematicians, rather than something from Geordie Shore.
But back to Khandro's original point - does anyone really think that this is the thin edge of some Muslim wedge - and if so - what does the thick end look like (and refer back to his voting record that I posted on the first page).
Don't get me wrong. I'm totally in favour of sexualised images - but there's a place for it, and it's not on buses and tubes
I would not be in favour of images of Matt Lister all over Attitude magazine, but it would be entirely inappropriate for his image to appear on the 91 bus from Trafalgar Square.
sp, actually I think AOG is right. Your interpretation of the image does say more about you. I'm assuming it's aimed at women and doesn't come across to me in that way at all. It's just a girl in a bikini.
2. I urge you to delete your browser history before Mrs AOG gets home, because I don't think you would be able to explain the reason for looking him up.
naomi24 - I think the image is just not right. It's not something that really bothers me per se - but I totally understand why others might take against it.