{"id":128,"date":"2008-04-18T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T16:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/04\/18\/128\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T12:48:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T16:48:03","slug":"no-more-skinny-french-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/no-more-skinny-french-models\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Skinny French Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most countries are badgering their citizens to lose weight, France thinks they have the opposite problem \u00e2\u20ac\u201c some of their citizens are too skinny.<\/p>\n<p>New French legislation makes it a crime to promote excessive thinness.   Anyone guilty faces fines of up to $70,000 dollars and three years in jail, where the food is, evidently, abundant and excellent.  The law applies to all media, but the primary target seems to be pro-anna web sites which proclaim anorexia or bulimia is a good and preferred lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>I found this post on a pro anna site:  &#8220;its so strange ive had like a rice cake and i feel like purging. i think im going to have to. i cant cope today!&#8221;  Evidently she&#8217;s too weak to hold down the shift key.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s government did this after a Brazilian supermodel literally starved herself to death, lowering the country&#8217;s total IQ by nearly sixteen points.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies, if you&#8217;re considering doing something as stupid as developing an eating order on purpose, please accept this observation from an average male guy type person:<\/p>\n<p>Guys like women that are <em>woman <\/em>shaped.  That means curvy bits, not straight lines.  Breasts are sexy (we <em>really <\/em>like breasts). Visible ribs are gross. Hips are sexy.  Hip bones are disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>If your boyfriend gets painful bruises when he hugs you he won&#8217;t continue being affectionate. Nor is he likely to stay around if he runs his fingers down your shoulder blades and cuts himself.<\/p>\n<p>So have a sandwich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most countries are badgering their citizens to lose weight, France thinks they have the opposite problem \u00e2\u20ac\u201c some of their citizens are too skinny. New French legislation makes it a crime to promote excessive thinness. Anyone guilty faces fines of up to $70,000 dollars and three years in jail, where the food is, evidently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}