From what I can tell, they are not using BMI as an arbitrary line though. It’s one piece of information they have to submit along with an overall evaluation of their health. I would assume that a reputable doctor will take into account someone’s overall health and not solely focus on BMI, including if someone has a…

YOu don’t get what I’m trying to say: People with super low BMI are almost always unhealthy. People with high BMI can still be healthy.

Statistically speaking, very few women, are *naturally* as thin as that (and is that without diet restriction and normal exercise habits?) so, yes, a few women will be “negatively affected.” I’m okay with that nominal negative impact on a few people to protect a much, much larger population of women who deserve better…

That might be true if many of these models weren’t actively engaging in dangerous eating and workout habits to get the bodies they have. In most cases we aren’t talking about people who are “naturally” 95 pounds at a height of 5’11”.

BMI is accurate for the vast majority of the population, and it’s pretty easy to figure out if someone is an exception by looking at him, not to mention that the majority of incorrect classifications are in the direction of calling unhealthy people healthy. Even when you do include the outliers, it’s still a better…

It’s pretty uncommon as far as I know to have an excessively low BMI, a high one is very easy if you have a bunch of muscle.

A great deal of this inertia strikes me as laziness on the part of the fashion houses.

...is what the modeling industry perpetuates and this is a positive step toward protecting consumers and models who are under enormous social and financial pressure to be as thin as possible.

Literally no one has said that

Bad example. Abortion is illegal in Saudi Arabia unless the pregnancy is a grave threat the mother’s health and then requires three doctors to sign off. Financial burden or an inability to care for the child are not considered reasons for an abortion. If anything you’re arguing to not allow that type of fundamentalism…

Actually under muslim law a wife must get husbands permission to just use birth control. So, yeah. A woman having domain over her own body is not a concept in that religion.

It is much worse in many places. That doesn’t make it perfect here, for sure - or even good, in many cases. But you don’t have to take the absolute inversion of a bullshit argument to deal with it. Eliminating nuance from issues like this doesn’t make them easier to deal with, it makes them harder to deal with.

The great thing about being a thinking person is that you can criticize both the limitations placed on women’s bodily autonomy in the United States, and also states where women are literally put to death for having sexual intercourse whilst unwed. There’s no need to imply that we shouldn’t be critical of others until…

I mean, I see your point, but radical Islamists are literally enslaving women.

The horror of the latter doesn’t negate the horror of the former.

I have no idea about that either. I’m assuming a duty of care once he came out breathing, but it boggles the mind.

I know this raises huuuuge ethical considerations, and would be an interesting debate if it hadn’t happened horrifically in the real world, but WHY would they resuscitate the foetus?

So we’re all suffering a witch to live?

Your answer isn’t blaming Lena Dunham for someone else’s technical mistake so expect to be flagged.

Too much botox. That’s my point. He looks really waxy.