My last post about Mencap provoked some debate in the office about how things are described. Now I hear that it is politically incorrect for us to have 'brainstorms' as it is derogatory to people with mental conditions! These, apparently, should now be more appropriately titled 'thought showers'. For God's sake. If I went to a client and said 'let me go back to the office with the team so we can have a 'thought shower' I would be laughed out of town.
That led to a heated discussion about a documentary that focussed on the presenter and footballer's wife Louise Redknapp aiming to get down to a size zero from what was described as a 'curvy' size 8 (US size 4). I find it hard to believe that anyone (unless they were 7 years old) that was a size 8 could be described as 'curvy'. Louise Redknapp certainly wasn't curvy at 7.10 and I think this sets a really bad example to people who watched the documentary.
Sure, she showed the horrible side effects of intensive dieting but with so many cries in the media for women's natural sizes to be represented responsibly and reasonably by the fashion industry and the media it is quite shocking that an already thin woman was chosen for this 'social experiment'. More shocking that she was described as curvy...
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