Every woman’s body is beach-ready, says Spanish equality campaign… which is criticised for not including MEN
- A Spanish equality campaign has been criticised for not including men
- People slammed their artwork for only saying women’s bodies are beach-ready
- It depicted women including those who were overweight and unshaved
- Many hit out at the campaign for not showing men’s bodies are beach-ready too
A Spanish equality campaign has been criticised for not including men in a body-positivity artwork.
Spain’s equality ministry was slammed for saying every woman’s body is beach-ready but not saying whether men’s are as well.
The campaign artwork depicts three overweight women, a topless elderly woman after a mastectomy and a woman with unshaved legs and her armpit hair on display below a slogan of ‘summer is ours too’.
Equalities minister Irene Montero said: ‘All bodies are valid and we have the right to enjoy life as we are, without guilt or shame. Summer is for everyone!’
However, many were quick to attack the campaign for not saying men’s bodies were beach-ready as well.
A Spanish equality ministry artwork depicts three overweight women, a topless elderly woman after a mastectomy and a woman with unshaved legs and her armpit hair on display below a slogan of ‘summer is ours too’
Equalities minister Irene Montero said: ‘All bodies are valid and we have the right to enjoy life as we are, without guilt or shame. Summer is for everyone!’
‘Where are the bodies of men!?,’ one Twitter user asked. ‘Many have complexes for their baldness.’
Another joked: ‘It is that only women are deformed. Men, they all have perfect bodies. Everyone knows that.
‘Is there anything more macho than that posh girl and her ministry?
‘Always looking for ways to denigrate women.’
Even Communist politician Cayo Lara said the campaign was ‘the height of absurdity’ and ‘trying to create a problem where it does not exist’.
After the criticism, junior equality minister Ángela Rodríguez Pam said: ‘Gentlemen saying that fat women could now go to the beach without permission from Equality [ministry]: Of course we are going but we’re assuming we’ll attract hatred for teaching about a body that is not normal.’
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