Petition to ban airbrushing images aimed at teens (UK)

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Young people are increasingly feeling physically inadiquate in their appearance and dangerously quest to transform themselves into an unattainable body image presented in the media as attainable and thusly risking their mental and physical health in the process.

I want my toddler niece to grow up not feeling ugly for just being who she is.

If you agree, please sign this...

https://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31414

 

[uscmhicks]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

I completely agree with you. I tried to sign but the site is just loading for me, I'll give it a another go in the morning.

 

[BadMoon]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

Young people are increasingly feeling physically inadiquate in their appearance and dangerously quest to transform themselves into an unattainable body image presented in the media as attainable and thusly risking their mental and physical health in the process.

I want my toddler niece to grow up not feeling ugly for just being who she is.

If you agree, please sign this...

https://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31414

I'm against censorship in any form. People need to be smart enough to know what's what. Something my daughter will learn. I appreciate the cause. Just think its misguided. The world doesn't need censorship. The world needs smarter more confident people.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

^ agreed, but people need to develop with a fair shake at whats real and what isn't around them

Young girls and recently boys are being conditioned to look a certain way from a very young age, before they develop mature rational understanding

*I got the link off a news site, it's not my petition but i personally support it

 

[Doctor Who]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

While I do agree with the cause, in the end it's the parents who need to keep an eye on their children and make sure they don't go overboard with crap, not the gov'ment. What the world really needs is better parenting.

And it talks about ads and images, but you still have television, movies, even books, .. so it's not exactly broad enough to be effective.

 

[devilof76]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

If you can't live your life without using a gun to tell other people what they can and cannot say, being ugly is the least of your problems.

I think I'm going to start a petition to make it illegal for ugly people to leave their houses until they get properly airbrushed.

 

[carbo-fation]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

I think the petition is well intentioned but in the end, it comes down to the family and the way they raise their child. Banning this won't help anything in the long run.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

This is about kids being fed unattainable body image perspectives, airbrushing is done on everything these days and kids are growing up with body dismorphic issues and lack of confidence / self-worth as they strive to look a way that can't be managed

Models in the 60's didn't need airbrushing and photoshopping and they don't now, companies shouldn't be advertising an image that can't be attained

 

[carbo-fation]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

I enjoy my Kim K sans cellulite. Makes her much more tolerable.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

I think the petition is well intentioned but in the end, it comes down to the family and the way they raise their child. Banning this won't help anything in the long run.

Very true, but you can't control what your kids sees on adverts on the high street or at school.

Companies need to ease up, i've seen before and after pics where they slim waists, increase bust, remove birthmarks. If thats not who the person is why advertise that person as that.

They are turning every woman into an ideal woman through un-natural and un-attainable means, and young girls are risking their health to match it

I'm estimating 90% of media images are changed from who that person is to an idea of who that person should be, thats far too much

I'm not for censorship, i don't think adverts with models should be banned at all, but they're selling a fake image that can't be attained by those who view them.

 

[devilof76]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

...companies should be advertising an image that can't be attained

Then throw them on the trains and into the camps and be done with it.

 

[wofford29]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

If someone is ugly they don't need a magazine to tell them.

 

[devilof76]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

 

[Lejuan]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

While I do agree with the cause, in the end it's the parents who need to keep an eye on their children and make sure they don't go overboard with crap, not the gov'ment. What the world really needs is better parenting.

And it talks about ads and images, but you still have television, movies, even books, .. so it's not exactly broad enough to be effective.

The peer group is an incredibly powerful influence on young people, and in some aspects is more powerful at particular stages of an individuals' development than the influence wielded by a parent or parents. Ideally, yes, parents will be able to confer a strong sense of self to their children. But this doesn't always happen and varies from individual to individual. Marketing and advertising is a powerful and highly influential driver of attitudes in society and there is a substantial power imbalance that exists between those who prosecute false or misleading images and those who consume them. The creators of misleading imagery should be held to account by those with equal power, rather than have it solely the responsibility of the parents to educate their children on how to recognise and decipher images that are often subtle and sophisticated. In my opinion this is not about censorship. It is about the nature of the representation of marketable products to the consumer - in this case, the consumers are minors, which makes them an especially vulnerable group that has a particular susceptibility to seductive advertising techniques such as airbrushing.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

The peer group is an incredibly powerful influence on young people, and in some aspects is more powerful at particular stages of an individuals' development than the influence wielded by a parent or parents. Ideally, yes, parents will be able to confer a strong sense of self to their children. But this doesn't always happen and varies from individual to individual. Marketing and advertising is a powerful and highly influential driver of attitudes in society and there is a substantial power imbalance that exists between those who prosecute false or misleading images and those who consume them. The creators of misleading imagery should be held to account by those with equal power, rather than have it solely the responsibility of the parents to educate their children on how to recognise and decipher images that are often subtle and sophisticated. In my opinion this is not about censorship. It is about the nature of the representation of marketable products to the consumer - in this case, the consumers are minors, which makes them an especially vulnerable group that has a particular susceptibility to seductive advertising techniques such as airbrushing.

Very well said

If someone is ugly they don't need a magazine to tell them.

Attractive Teens now view themselves as ugly even though they are not because they don't measure upto the fictional image of beauty presented after airbrushing

 

[devilof76]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

We should ban unrealistic tits and ass in comics while we're at it.

 

[wofford29]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

The peer group is an incredibly powerful influence on young people, and in some aspects is more powerful at particular stages of an individuals' development than the influence wielded by a parent or parents. Ideally, yes, parents will be able to confer a strong sense of self to their children. But this doesn't always happen and varies from individual to individual. Marketing and advertising is a powerful and highly influential driver of attitudes in society and there is a substantial power imbalance that exists between those who prosecute false or misleading images and those who consume them. The creators of misleading imagery should be held to account by those with equal power, rather than have it solely the responsibility of the parents to educate their children on how to recognise and decipher images that are often subtle and sophisticated. In my opinion this is not about censorship. It is about the nature of the representation of marketable products to the consumer - in this case, the consumers are minors, which makes them an especially vulnerable group that has a particular susceptibility to seductive advertising techniques such as airbrushing.

Only this isn't about marketing. It's about photoshopping an ass dimple out of a woman's bikini shoot. Next up we'll get the petition for women no longer being allowed to wear makeup. I'll start a petition to only allow white men to model underwear in print.

 

[Lejuan]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

Only this isn't about marketing. It's about photoshopping an ass dimple out of a woman's bikini shoot. Next up we'll get the petition for women no longer being allowed to wear makeup.

"Ban airbrushing of all images and adverts aimed at children in the UK...By banning airbrushed images that target the under 16s"

Sounds like marketing to me?

 

[wofford29]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

"Ban airbrushing of all images and adverts aimed at children in the UK...By banning airbrushed images that target the under 16s"

Sounds like marketing to me?

The model isn't the product and the product isn't what's supposedly making kids feel ugly.

 

[devilof76]

Re: Petition to ban airbushing images aimed at teens (UK)

This is the way you institutionalize envy.

Flatter it by giving it the power of law and you've practically made it a moral imperative.