In among your common-or-garden thin plastic models, there’s now a plus-size female mannequin in size-16 gym gear. Critics say the mannequin, far from being a bastion of body-positivity, “normalises obesity” or even celebrates it. Writing in the Daily Telegraph about Nike’s mannequin, Tanya Gold says: “She is not readying herself for a run in her shiny Nike gear. In the same gym, I’d see the model Roz Purcell; lithe and enviably lean. The Nike mannequin isn’t about celebrating obesity.

Source: The Irish Times June 10, 2019 14:03 UTC