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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1199 Posts 
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How many people think this is reasonable, as laws go?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20......ir=World
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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mastermindreader V.I.P. Seattle, WA 12589 Posts
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Given the serious problems of bulimia and anorexia in the modeling industry and attendant deaths in recent years, I think the law is reasonable. On the surface, it could be argued that a law forbidding the employment of underweight models is discriminatory. But, the way I see it, the law will have the effect of preventing the industry from forcing models to lose unnatural amounts of weight in order to stay employed.
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts
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If it's so fraught with peril why not just ban modeling all together?
Meanwhile, the cigarette and alcohol industries are going great guns. And speaking of guns... Yeah, with all the truly reckless danger in the world, by all means let's start picking on the skinny girls first. |
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts
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How are they going great guns??
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness...
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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Lobo, I think this law, and many like it, is based on the erroneous assumption that widespread ideas and beliefs of the Volk are imposed from above by the evil corporations who fool people into believing them with massive expenditures of advertising money.
In reality, most advertisers spend fortunes trying to keep up with the Volk and work desperately to tie their products into the memes that the Volk have already adopted. I sense in a vague, inchoate way, that the fondness for skinny girls is related to an increase in human neoteny . . . and goes along with the juvenilization of so much of our declining culture. |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2012-03-21 03:16, Chance wrote: Out of curiosity, when you get a speeding ticket, do you argue with the cop that he should be out catching bank robbers or murderers? |
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mastermindreader V.I.P. Seattle, WA 12589 Posts
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On 2012-03-21 03:16, Chance wrote: I think that is a total misreading of the intent of the law. It's not intended to pick on "skinny girls," but to prevent those of normal weight to be forced to purge themselves, etc. in order to meet the unrealistic and dangerous demands of the modeling industry. |
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts
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On 2012-03-21 11:06, S2000magician wrote: Didn't you mean 'bank robbers or murderers or insolent magicians who disagree with the wise one'? |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts
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You're absolutely right, Bob. But I think the perception that anorexia & bulimia are caused by imagery in advertising is mistaken. I think that the advertising is following the public.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2012-03-21 11:10, mastermindreader wrote: Assumes facts not in evidence: he may not have read the law at all ("mis" or not). |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2012-03-21 11:12, Destiny wrote: You're correct, of course, but I wasn't offering my list as exhaustive, merely exemplary. |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2610 Posts
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Just curios:
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 20586 Posts
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On 2012-03-21 03:16, Chance wrote: As usual too clever by half. Here are some statistics or FACTS. Go ahead keep telling me about guns. *Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. * A study by the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders reported that 5 – 10% of anorexics die within 10 years after contracting the disease; 18-20% of anorexics will be dead after 20 years and only 30 – 40% ever fully recover. * The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate of ALL causes of death for females 15 – 24 years old. * 20% of people suffering from anorexia will prematurely die from complications related to their eating disorder, including suicide and heart problems. Direct from this link. http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm Might not be about "picking on the skinny girls" but rather finding a way to help some people who might need help, but don't have a way to figure that out. By all means continue to spew what you think is valid information though. Don't let facts stop you.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts
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Fine. Then why not include male jockeys while we're at it?
And then let's start with sumo's for being so fat. I thought you conservative types were against "big government". How do laws such as this square with that? Here I am, a very liberal person according to you guys, speaking against the law while all the rest of you are for it. Interesting. |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 230 Posts
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Well, Chance, because it is imposing a conservative, right-wing government's will on a female's body of course. I thought that was obvious.
:) 
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 230 Posts
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Oh, and there someone goes with the Israel bashing again. 
[That's a joke.] :) Seriously, I believe there are laws protecting employees in other industries, so I think it is just a matter of quibbling over details. E.g., I think some employees in some industries need to be regularly tested for health related reasons. Is this the best possible implementation of the law? Maybe not (for reasons mentioned in the article). But likely better than nothing.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2012-03-21 12:48, Chance wrote: In fact, you never spoke against the law. All you did was try to extrapolate it, first to silliness, then to areas unrelated to the topic at hand. If you're against the law, try writing something along these lines: I'm against the law. (Unless, of course, you intended your sentence saying that you were speaking against the law to be self-referential, not unlike: "Hello. This is Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau spicking on the pheune.") |
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts
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So you thought I was in support of the law based on my previous comments, is that it?
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2012-03-21 13:42, Chance wrote: No, I thought that because you have gotten into such heated arguments with the likes of LobowolfXXX about him not stating his positions clearly, you might take the opportunity to state yours clearly, if only to show him up. If you insist on leaving it up to the rest of us to infer your position from oblique comments, at least do us the courtesy of keeping quiet when we infer something you didn't intend. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16365 Posts
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Seems a good a law to me.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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