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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The fashion industry is so much more than just the “circus” you mention. That is just the top of the iceberg. These standards have also spread to more common fashion, advertising clothes for ordinary people.

    I would much rather see positive education into how to actually be fit and healthy, so that teens have no reason to look at these circus performers as a template.

    If there’s a method for that, that actually works, that would be great.

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      24 hours ago

      These standards have also spread to more common fashion, advertising clothes for ordinary people.

      No doubt.

      If there’s a method for that, that actually works, that would be great.

      First, block and avoid ads. They are poison to the mind. Dropping social media is also strongly suggested.

      It’s hard to not fall prey to marketing companies if ads surround you on a daily basis, and I can’t honestly imagine how difficult it must be for any teen who uses the internet or apps unfiltered. It’s a losing battle if those influences aren’t dealt with first.

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        24 hours ago

        I have all ads blocked, I never see ads in my everyday life, not on TV, not on my phone or on my computer, and not on radio. I’m personally 99.9% ad free.
        But the only reason that’s possible, is because we are a tiny minority, probably about 90% of people don’t care enough or don’t know how to get around the advertising.

        To do that for everybody would be a major shift for society, that is not possible to do without a strong legal framework to achieve it, something that is not at all realistic in the current political situation in any place in the world.

        So I think for now, the best we can do, is to regulate very thin models in the situation we are debating here.