Wednesday, May 16, 2012


Must not promote suntans?



H&M is a Swedish clothing firm with outlets in many countries
Just days after "tanorexia" became a household word (thanks to New Jersey Tanning Mom Patricia Krentcil), fashion retailer H&M has come under fire for featuring a deeply tanned model in their latest swimwear campaign, sparking outrage from the Swedish Cancer Society for promoting tanning as a fashion accessory.

"The clothing giant is creating, not least among young people, a beauty ideal that is deadly," the group wrote in an opinion piece in the Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter on Thursday, AFP reported. "Every year, more people die in Sweden of [skin cancer] than in traffic accidents, and the main cause is too much sunning."

H&M released an apology almost immediately.

It seems like a stretch to say that a clothing campaign could single-handedly lead to an uptick in skin-cancer, especially given the media focus on the dangers of tanning beds.

Source

Isn't it "racist" to mention skin color?


8 comments:

  1. Bird of Paradise2:58 AM

    Liberals their always not happy with the way americans show their free they want some stupid laws or regulations-

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  2. Anonymous3:32 AM

    Clearly Bird of P is happy to be free of spelling regulations and normal sentence construction (in the English language).

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  3. Anonymous4:48 AM

    Where does this "Bird of Paradise" actually live, and what is his/her background in the English language?
    I'd be quite happy to tutor him/her if geographically feasible.

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  4. Anonymous7:19 AM

    "Political correctness is a far greater threat to our freedom and liberty than is terrorism..."

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  5. Anonymous8:30 AM

    Where does it say that this highly attractive woman is not a native African? Hence the lack of need for further stereotype?

    Don't bother answering that.

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  6. Go Away Bird1:20 AM

    Annon 6:45 PC is just another form of SOCIALMS

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  7. Anonymous2:27 AM

    "SOCIALMS"

    Social MicroSoft?
    Social Multiple Sclerosis?
    Social Master of Science?
    Social Ms. (an American feminist magazine)

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  8. TheOldMan5:12 AM

    I need to investigate if she really is tan everywhere. A few hours of hands-on checking should suffice...

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