Mp says ban airbrushing

Setting aside the curiously antiquated terminology and using Photoshop instead, where would you start?

I'd fill in the gaps between the teeth, reduce the amount of upper jaw gum on display, introduce some hint of lower teeth, take the food out of the hamster cheeks, add a bit of interest to the hair, take the eyebrows up a bit and add a hint of an arch, move the eyes closer together, remove the oiliness from the skin

That should do it

Airbrushing FFS 🙂

I'd use a paper bag.

Numpty. Why cant MP's keep their blooming noses out of the topics they know nothing about and worry about some real issues. There are sooooooooooo many things that could be changed to make an impact to young peoples lifes, especially the multitude of things other than airbrushing that could be done to change the 'confidence crisis' that supposedly exists.

Unemployment on the up as munters forced to learn new skills!
I'll have fries with that please.

linking in with this pair

Linky

She's after publicity for her campaign… he's…well, he's after publicity

Amongst other things…

Good going to him I say. Give the lass as much publicity as she can take.

well done son, i doff my cap to you

well done son, i doff my cap to you

<pedant>It's "doth" by the way, I'm fairly sure.</pedant>

She doesn't need airbrushing though, she's a fine shape. Unfortunately I cant say the same thing about the first linky!

Nope – its doff as in remove, not doth as in do

ck – definitely "Doff" (to undress, take off one's hat) not "Doth" (from Do")

Don't agree on your pedantry coffeeking…

Opik is a legend. A man who has built a parliamentary career out of warning of the dangers of asteroid strikes and appearing in public with gorgeously inappropriate girls. 🙂

I withdraw my pedantic comment, I am clearly wrong. Humble apologies.

From Hatsuk!:
Doff: The action of partially removing a hat by males as a sign of respect

The point that she makes is not without its value. Airbrushing can't do much for the self image of most young girls. However Miss Swinson was on the TV this morning in 3" heels which would make her legs look better and her look taller to the casual observer. This also strikes me as cheating.

Known in Westminster for the attention she pays to her appearance, Miss Swinson’s receipts contain a number of items relating to her personal care. They included a “tooth flosser” costing £19.10, which the Commons fees office rejected, along with a set of “toothbrush refills”.

A few months previously, however, and in an apparent breach of the rules that prevented claims for personal items, she was reimbursed for an electric toothbrush and hairdryer.

Also among her receipts was a £27.94 bill from Boots, which included a £5 eyeliner, a lip liner for the same price, and a £12.00 “R&M Eye Kit”.

My local airbrush artist says we should ban MP's, so who's right and who's wrong?

Would love to see the "airbrush" bill to make Mr Opik look normal.

For once, this is a bit of suggested banning I agree with.

In my line of work I'm occassionally involved with this kind of thing, and you wouldn't believe some of the 'enhancemements' we are requested to make to pictures of certain people before they're allowed into the public domain.

It's quite sickening.

What I want to know is why Lembit has replaced his right leg with a bath plug.

What I want to know is why Lembit has replaced his right leg with a bath plug.

😆

Has anyone studied the effects of "other people actually being thinner and prettier than them" on the self-image of the nation's women?

I'm all for relentless and intrusive media and artistic censorship, but if we have to undertake a national campign of facial disfigurement, force-feeding and public masectomies before the fragile egos of the nation's unattractive women will be fully protected from feelings of inadequacy I might have to draw a line.

I don’t know, a lot of photos in magazines now are veering dangerously into the uncanny valley – models are starting to look more like CG videogame characters. :/ It’s amazing (albeit slightly creepy) what they can do with Photoshop nowadays. Always found the Dove video against it interesting –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

A lthough Dove aren’t really in a position to comment, given that they’re also in the business of selling products on the basis of people’s insecurities and stupid made-up science words.

I think it’s particularly bad when actresses/models/singers get ‘shopped against their wishes – Kylie, Keira Knightly and Kate Winslet (must be something about names beginning with K) have all complained/taken legal against against it.

stupid made-up science words

Beautifully put. 🙂

Just done a straw poll of the women in my office, most of whom seem to be variously addicted to trashy celeb mags and those fashion/advice ones. 100% of them believe that most pictures of the women are "enhanced" in some way, 100% also understand that looking like them is pretty much impossible, and 100% are not angst ridden about it either.

I have a vague hunch either that your office is not representative of the nation at large, or that the questions you have asked have not drilled down to the anxieties against which this proposal attempts to protect us. 😉

Well I prefer this version of the Dove film:
clickety

You could be right BD, I'll ask them about it…Stand by

Sadly all of them appear to be well adjusted and boringly free from airbrushed based anxieties…