General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Cadaverous 16-year-olds - the chosen models of the fashion industry [View all]This is not a "bullshit refrain". Recently (last year, I think) one of these models* posed nude on a cover of some magazine to show just how "thin" she really was, and flatly stated that this is the norm for the industry. This is not "thin is beautiful". This is "you are a walking coat hangar, and we want you as thin as one". That girl looked like a concentration camp survivor.
There isn't anything here that points to an out-of-whack society, a "wrong impression" given to girls and young women (even though that's what ends up happening), or anything of the sort. No, this is a very dangerous and abusive employer practice that causes actual damage and sometimes long-term physical side effects and it really should fall under the purview of OSHA (at least in the US).
You're wrong to simply dismiss this as people complaining that they're not in the genetically-gifted club. These girls and young women are being out and out abused by their employers, and it needs to be stopped for their own health and physical well-being.
*Her name was Isabelle Caro. Note my use of the past tense.