I agree, but as a proponent of free expression speech I'm not happy about a government ban on a private enterprise. I realize different countries have different customs, and I'm no fan of anorexic models as role models. But I can't really support the banning.
Children get exposed to all kinds of unfortunate things -- always have, probably -- and it's up to supportive adults to try to help them learn to judge those things for themselves in a healthy way. Some, of course, never do, and they become adults with unhealthy attitudes, but that's how life goes. Others realize that you must always question culture, and I think that's a good thing.
But -- and this is just my view -- banning does not really accomplish the purpose. Somehow, we have to create a culture where people just don't want models like that.
Del: Your post came in while I was writing this. I can't quite tell if we agree or not?
Hiya
Kat,
I'm not sure. I read that back in the 70's before the advent of cable and video and the internet, mainstream TV shows used to be much more violent than they are now. There was a backlash of sorts, people believed strongly this stuff was too violent for their kids to watch, that it made kids either indifferent to violence in the real world or violent themseves.
You hear that argument now about video games, movies etc.
Personally, I thought parents should have monitored what their kids watched a lot closer to solve that issue. It's what you and
mojo and I agree
should have happened. However, it didn't. Instead, in response to consumer pressure, TV execs toned down the violent aspects of all shows.
So in that circumstance, a type of censorship DID occur. Obviously young adults or adutls with kids couldn't have cared less what was bad for little kids to watch. THEIR TV shows were censored and they had to put up with it.
I'm not sure, but I read that it wasn't the fed government
per se in Spain that banned skinny models. It was some city watchdog agency and then it was for only that one particular show - there are many shows. Why was that agency acting? Because one or two people made a decision that they should ban models or were they acting on consumer/citizen pressure? [shrugs]