So, Has He Started To Put Pressure On Women To Cover Up?

[RATTER15]

or is he genuinely concerned about unrealistic body image pressure?

Is this a Muslim thing?

https://www.facebook.com/1596637297325950/videos/1645092759147070/

[CrapAtCryptics]

i think the issue was already current before he was elected.

[ummmm]

Yes...it was being discussed before he was elected. I also agree with him.

[RATTER15]

I also agree with him as as its being done for the right reasons.

[RATTER15]

as long as its being done*

[jno]

I don't understand your question. He's put no pressure on women at all, the pressure is on advertisers. Good thing too, in my opinion. There have always been restrictions on what is advertised on London Transport but they've been interrpreted more laxly in recent years, and some of them have got unpleasant.

[ummmm]

Like he says, if you're reading a mag you can flick the page but you can't if a bus has pulled up.

If the adverts were for beach wear or underwear then I wouldn't have a problem. It's the fact that they're advertising slimming products.

[jno]

agree, ummmm. Though being old I am still occasionally startled by 30 foot long photos of people in their knickers sailing by on the sides of buses.

[Old_Geezer]

Some discussion here.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1497071.html

[ummmm]

Read sp's post at 11.41.

[-Talbot-]

What I don't understand is why he is saying it is a unhealthy body shape????

[ummmm]

It's an unhealthy body image if slimming pills are being advertised. If they were advertising a gym/healthy eating/healthy lifestyle then it becomes a positive image.

Slimming pills are not a quick fix and doesn't promote diet and exercise.

[Khandro]

Ratter; This has been ongoing here;
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1497071.html

[Old_Geezer]

I think he is saying the committee who is in charge of censorship will decide what is and is not unhealthy or unrealistic.

Whilst I think the onus should be on the individuals affected to get help, (they are going to encounter influences throughout their life and need the ability to cope without feeling the less for it) this is such a minor matter I can't get worked up about that level of censorship. And if one can make the case than it does more good helping the afflicted than society loses in freedom of expression then why make a fuss ?

[Khandro]

This I maintain is an old ad (2015), and being used to promote a Muslim-led agenda and should have nothing whatsoever to do with the mandate of the mayor of the capital of England. He says "As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end".
As a father of two daughters also, none of these pictures would make them believe that they are being demeaned or in any way "ashamed of their bodies".
His stance is purely and simply a product of his warped mind and religion.

[fiction-factory]

I think this campaign had started quite some time before the new mayor was elected, Khandro

[Hopkirk]

Rubbish Khandro.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Islam.

[jomifl]

I think islam does more to make women ashamed of their bodies than any advertiser..can't quite imagine an islamic shampoo advert..

[Hopkirk]

Are you sure you are not talking about the Catholic Church?

[Khandro]

Hopkirk; Please go to the link above (9:21) page 7, and read vetuste_enemi's post at 19:14

[naomi24]

I don't understand how or why censorship of adverts is within his remit. I mentioned that on the other thread but no one enlightened me.