MPs like Swinson and Featherstone don’t believe that we’re a nation of adults capable of looking after ourselves in this big bad world. We’re viewed as little more than infants who need protecting from the interests of big business with their poisonous world views.

We already have laws that concern the misrepresentation of products when advertised. We don’t need yet more legislation covering the thoughts and feelings of people that have been labelled victims by some think tank.

However, just because she’s 10 times better than your average Labour MP doesn’t put her beyond criticism. If she was as concerned about men as women then this would have been a gender neutral campaign.

Although someone like her actually remembers all the males who feel the need to take steroids (or become anorexic), the very nature of the campaign means the less enlightened people automatically ignore such facts and thus the problem is completely ignored and goes unsolved.

On top of that if you have a campaign inaccurately portraying only women as the vicitms you get man haters such as Harman jumping on the bandwagon too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8467443.stm

“Steroid abuse is a growing health problem for teenage boys who are under increasing pressure to look good”

“Seventeen-year-old Matthew Dear paid the ultimate price for steroid misuse…Four weeks after he started taking the steroids, Matthew died. The cause of death was given as the misuse of anabolic steroids.”