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French may outlaw inciting thinness

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AP: France may outlaw incinting thinness

France may outlaw inciting thinness

By DEVORAH LAUTER, Associated Press Writer

2 hours, 32 minutes ago

The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone ? including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites ? to publicly incite extreme thinness.

The National Assembly approved the bill in a series of votes Tuesday, after the legislation won unanimous support from the ruling conservative UMP party. It goes to the Senate in the coming weeks.

Fashion industry experts said that, if passed, the law would be the strongest of its kind anywhere. Leaders in French couture are opposed to the idea of legal boundaries on beauty standards.

The bill was the latest and strongest of measures proposed after the 2006 anorexia-linked death of a Brazilian model prompted efforts throughout the international fashion industry to address the repercussions of using ultra-thin models.

Conservative lawmaker Valery Boyer, author of the law, argued that encouraging anorexia or severe weight loss should be punishable in court.

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:lol:

Seriously, though, I think it's one of those things that's a good idea in principle, but how can it be enforced?

I suppose I'm kind of a free-marketeer when it comes to this kind of stuff... When the market for "thin = sexy and fit" dries up, so will the pressure that modeling and ad agencies put on their models to be dangerously thin.
 
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shetuck;1140204; said:
but how can it be enforced?
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Not only that, but what determines that someone is "too thin"? lol

"You have an outie....put your hands behind your back....you're under arrest"

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Viva La France ...
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