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Comparison of censors

31 Dec 2011 06:41 PM | Malcolm Boura in Censorship

It is instructive to compare censors and how the attitudes of censors have changed. The No Anorexia campaign posters were reported with varying degrees of accuracy and responsibility. The evidence indicates that censoring the body increases the problem of body image disorders. In 2007 the BBC showed most of the poster. In 2010 they followed their usual policy of only showing the top.

Attached Image: No Anorexia - BBC 2007.jpg Attached Image: No Anorexia - BBC 2010.jpg

Isabella Caro, the subject of these photographs, said "To see my tailbone like an open wound, I show myself as I am. I'm not beautiful, my hair is ruined and I know I will never have long hair again. I've lost several teeth," she said of her looks on the billboard. "My skin is dry. My breasts have fallen. No young girl wants to look like a skeleton." She died not long after.

How can the readers of either BBC article "see [her] tailbone like an open wound". Yet clearly these were what she wanted the world to see to make her point. We were sure that the BBC was becoming more prudish and this reporting supports that. Quite why the Jonathan Ross incident, completely unacceptable as it was, should require an almighty lurch towards prudery has never been explained.

Other broadcasters were not so afraid to let Isabella make her point as forcibly as possible.

Attached Image: No Anorexia - MTV.jpg

If any of the organisations listed here would like to send us links to objective evidence justifying their policy on nudity then we will be delighted to add them. NB evidence that some people are prejudiced does not provide justification. It doesn't matter how deeply held a prejudice may be, or how popular it may appear to be, it is still nothing but a prejudice.


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05 Sep 2012 05:56 PM
If attitudes to the human body were more like those of some other European countries, then thee would be fewer cases like Isabella's in the UK. We need people to see her whole body, and to see normal healthy bodies too, so that young people can grow up seeing what normal healthy adults look like rather than airbrushed celebrities. I know anorexia is more about control than looking like media celebs, but anything which reduces the likelihood of girls embracing this illness would help! I've taught enough girls who've succumbed and some have died; time we ditched our stupid prudery in favour of openness and common sense!
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