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[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 99 points 4 months ago

Ugh so annoying. So like both in movies and body building, what they’re selling is actually not a healthy or strong physique—but someone who could be on the verge of organ failure.

I like the idea of fitness, and being in functionally good shape, so this sort of exaggeration is something I find uniquely distasteful—portraying a a goal state that is actually just a grift/scam, and that is dangerous to partake in.

[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Don’t some European countries have regulations against this kind of thing now? Like being forced to mark images as photoshopped and requiring that models have a certain BMI?

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As far as I remember, it is Norway that has a law requiring social media influencers to label their pictures if they have been altered and it's France that requires models to stay over a certain BMI. I think both laws are good, but the latter one should maybe be adjusted to not strictly look at BMI as it would, for example, impact tall models differently than short ones.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Jea, BMI is shit, it is too less diverse

[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah I like the spirit, but BMI is such a stupid and flawed measure. It’s ok as like a population level heuristic to say things are trending one way or another, but like athletes that have lots of muscle and are tall look the same as morbidly obese people to BMI, which is obviously silly.

[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I feel like we have ways to use body fat measurements and should just use that instead. I feel like modeling should only be able to use people that represent somewhat realistic body goals though, so I’m actually fine with not allowing the 0.25% most fit people out there to model. If it’s not realistically attainable by the average working person, you shouldn’t be on a billboard.

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