UK to Ban Hot Women from Advertisements

[Deleted]

So they are in essence, trying to tell people how they should think and feel about body shapes?

Wait the advertisers or the ASA or both of them?

[Mormolyce]

I propose the following: you can't use sex to advertise your product unless your product is sex. Otherwise classify it as false advertising.

[Bigbazz]

Guess nothing will change then as British women aren't attractive in the slightest.

Emma Watson, Felicity Jones, Kate Beckinsale, Audrey Hepburn..

For sure Britain hasn't produced any beautiful women in the slightest.

[Fayolynn]

Who gets to choose what is considered attractive?

[Gamdwelf]

Emma Watson, Felicity Jones, Kate Beckinsale, Audrey Hepburn..

For sure Britain hasn't produced any beautiful women in the slightest.

Fucking disgusting.

[Deleted]

Emma Watson, Felicity Jones, Kate Beckinsale, Audrey Hepburn..

For sure Britain hasn't produced any beautiful women in the slightest.

mate you had to list someone who died in the 90's, think you just lost.

[Bigbazz]

mate you had to list someone who died in the 90's, think you just lost.

I didn't have to list Audrey, but in her day I'd consider her second to none and she's from Britain, she deserved to be mentioned and the other 3 are all current and present and incredible.. Either way I need to compare Gamdwelf's face alongside them before I lose, Gam might be in with a shout against Audrey Hepburns corpse.

[Gamdwelf]

I didn't have to list Audrey, but in her day I'd consider her second to none and she's from Britain, she deserved to be mentioned and the other 3 are all current and present and incredible.. Either way I need to compare Gamdwelf's face alongside them before I lose, Gam might be in with a shout against Audrey Hepburns corpse.

Just because I'm the ugliest human doesn't mean I can't recognize attractive women.

[Deleted]

silly, why are people so offended seeing attractive people?

i understand not showing unhealthy extremes (obesity/anorexia) but whats wrong with having an attractive person?

[Bigbazz]

Just because I'm the ugliest human doesn't mean I can't recognize attractive women.

Go for it then, I wanna see what you got for me.

[Independent voter]

This is good news for the 7's and 8's of the world.

[Illuminance]

We need to do to obesity what we did to smoking in the last 50 years. Putting "average" (read: fat and ugly) women on advertisements is akin to trying to make Joe Camel cool again.

[Rudkobing]

Where will the hot women get work at then? I don't want to see some fat cunt trying to sell hamburgers and she looks like a pig in a dress.

[Deleted]

Just imagine how hot this can be in Summer fully exposed to the sun.



NVM, british girls are ugly in fact.

[Ghostpanther]

Wait the advertisers or the ASA or both of them?

The advertisers should use whatever that is lawful in their advertising. The ASA should not be telling them what body shapes to use or not use. If I am understanding this correctly. But if the majority in the UK support this, then so be it. I hope it never comes here to the US however.

[Soisoisoi]

There are no British made toothbrush adverts.

Just saying, 'murica has worse teeth than the UK. That stereotype no longer works.

[Aori]

Just saying, 'murica has worse teeth than the UK. That stereotype no longer works.

Only if you're counting the meth addicts.

[Soisoisoi]

Only if you're counting the meth addicts.

No, overall actually from what I saw.

[Deleted]

I thought this was a joke, but the implications certainly appear real based on the official announcement: https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resource...ng-in-ads.aspx

This makes Sweden's gender neutral pronoun mess and gender-neutral childrens toy advertisements look as conservative as Burkhas for everyone!

How would they even implement this? Taken far enough it would almost certainly require some kind of legal or even executive intervention ... (it's not as if many types of companies are going to take this lying down if taken far enough since this would affect their bottom line from their own marketing research).

[Jofe]

So unrealistic body images for women, but not men?

This battles sexism?

Must ask this too. I'm gonna guess if they really want to go ahead with this kinda of regulation is only natural it applies to male models too. Or is a case of "something something male power fantasy"?