U.K. Considering Regulating Ads to Make Sure the Women In Them Aren’t Too Hot

Yeah_Nopes · 2016-05-01T07:00:44+00:00

If there is one thing that feminists hate more than men, it's attractive women. Well not the women themselves, just their bodies. Which if you think about it, fits perfectly with the feminist definition for objectification. I thought feminists hated objectification?

Once again feminism shown to be a hypocritical hate movement built on projection.

KrisK_lvin · 2016-05-01T06:18:46+00:00

“We’re serious about making sure we’re alive to changing attitudes and behaviours,” [Chief Executive of the ASA, Guy Parker] said, according to the release.

You have to love the grammar of that changing attitudes and behaviours there - sure it can be read to mean ‘responding to changes in the people’, but in the context of this you can also read it as ‘we’re happy to force changes on other people' (whether they like it or not).

And oh look here:

“That’s why we’ve already been taking action to ban ads that we believe reinforce gender stereotypes and that are likely to cause serious and widespread offence, or harm.”

As Timpf says:

Personally, I’d argue that if seeing a picture of a hot lady actually causes you “harm,” then that’s probably more of your own issue than the government’s. In fact, I’d say that government intrusion into this area is ... an egregious overreach of power

HotDealsInTexas · 2016-05-01T07:16:37+00:00

I can't wait for the government to get sued by a model or actress who was turned down from a job for being "too attractive."

franklindeer · 2016-05-01T12:08:28+00:00

The U.K has some extremely censorious tendencies when it comes to expression it seems.

Spicy_Shart · 2016-05-01T14:09:21+00:00

The U.K. is rapidly turning into a nanny state.

The U.S. is rapidly turning into a police state.

Anglo-Saxon self-determinism is dead.

Downsizing · 2016-05-01T12:09:23+00:00

Fat ugly people do not sell clothes and jewelery. I don't even think fat ugly people could sell cake.

baskandpurr · 2016-05-01T11:34:26+00:00

Apart from the censorship/thought control angle I'd be OK with this as long as the same applied to attractive men in advertising. I find pervasive advertising to be irritating and its habit of constantly showing attractive people is alienating. However, I know this is being done for the wrong reasons. It's about irrational jealousy rather than positive images or changing attitudes. This is an attempt to protect women from feeling bad because they see prettier women in advertisig.

Ultramegasaurus · 2016-05-01T06:18:00+00:00

I can't find it right now, but there's been a study which concluded that women are actually less likely to buy a product if it's advertised for by (below) average women.

omegaphallic · 2016-05-01T16:31:32+00:00

Deguisting.

Mitthrawnuruodo1337 · 2016-05-01T17:59:41+00:00

So at some point, some model is going to be told, "sorry, you're too attractive to get this role" in the name of body acceptance?

Allevil669 · 2016-05-02T01:32:44+00:00

Just like 1984, Harrison Bergeron isn't a goddamned manual!

Mackowatosc · 2016-05-06T11:48:47+00:00

but but but this is discriminating hot women! Sexism! :>

jimrosenz · 2016-05-01T05:59:00+00:00

Last time I looked, most of these ads with these women are targeted at women to sell clothes, make-up and so forth to them. If women do not like these ads, they would not survive in market competition.

These ads are not targeted at men because men are far too shallow to remember what the product being sold was if the woman in it is rather attractive. Tell the truth. There might be an exception for beer advertising

Title	U.K. Considering Regulating Ads to Make Sure the Women In Them Aren’t Too Hot
Author	jimrosenz
Upvotes	49
Comments	31
Date	May 1, 2016 5:57 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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