[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Jamie89

He didn't want to ban bikini clad women as far as I'm aware, it was specifically ads that promote body shaming, with this particular ad coming under fire mainly because of it's text (and that text being associated with the woman in a bikini looking unhealthily thin), and the whole thing came to be an issue because of the thousands of people who complained about it, not because the Mayor of London is Muslim. He didn't instigate the backlash against the ad, should he have ignored it?

No he shouldn't have ignored it, but he should have focussed on all adverts male or female which portray an unrealistic body image, it makes no sense to single females out in 2017, the number of males v females shouldn't come in to it