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Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

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Post by tomhoward » Sun, Oct 01, 2017, 2:37 PM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #153

Mz wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taking decades to draw certain conclusions about my own life is not something I would describe as casual.

How many decades of life do the people have under their belt that you're judging?

Most likely very little of the kind that qualifies them to express such opinions.

I've had experiences that are reminiscent of Michele's over the past 10+ years.

I can tell you that neither your own comments, nor the comments others made to Michele that you're now trying to defend, are at all helpful, and in both cases can be quite damaging.

Please show some humanity and give it a rest.

Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

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Post by VirtualAirwaves » Sun, Oct 01, 2017, 4:10 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #40

VirtualAirwaves wrote: post #20

In the United States, Obesity is one of the leading causes of death, with estimates as high as 300,000 deaths/year. (See https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html ) Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012 ) Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese. It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poison…

Generally people know they're overweight, and there is no shyness about telling people so. Especially women. What there is a lack of is compassionate, practical help. It's quite a bit like smoking; few people would argue that they didn't know they were smoking, the issue is whether they care about the negative health effects and how they can actually do something about it that sticks.

And there's no "shyness" of overweight people telling healthy-weight people they're "skinny". I hear it every day, and my weight is dead-smack-in-the-middle of the "healthy" range for my height.

Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

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Post by juancn » Sun, Oct 01, 2017, 5:29 PM UTC

In Argentina it has been the case that digital alterations of the human figure must be stated for several years, and people still use photoshop and just add a tiny disclaimer below. Pictures are roughly the same.

Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

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Post by cyphar » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 10:13 PM UTC

tgb wrote: post #112

cyphar wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese. Also smoking is very normalised in many parts of the world, thanks to American lobbying. I really wish more countries would follow Australia's lead on smoking legislation. Smoking kills ~500,000 a year[1]. > It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poisonous snake bites and spending 15 minutes on automo…

Is it American lobbying? As an American, I could never live in Europe since the cigarette smoke everywhere disgusts me. Too bad because they have a lot of other things figured out but will still be smoking the cigarettes outdoors in a crowded restaurant seating or worse, around children. I've never seen anything like it in the US though the current riser of ecigs is concerning.

Quite a lot of lobbying to prevent anti-smoking laws all over the world is done by the American tobacco industry (Marlboro is a particular offender). To be clear, some EU countries (Germany especially) have had a bad track record with smoking legislation as well as EU lobbying. But usually they are lobbying for the goal of protecting an EU directive from being passed that affects their own country (which is effectively just standard lobbying).

But I don't recall stories about Reemtsma trying to interfere in Australia's laws about anti-smoking. Marlboro did (they failed spectacularly, but that's a separate topic).