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Of all the things to criticize about women’s magazines and fashion advertising, nothing is more universally reviled than the airbrush. The world of the digital photo retoucher is that of a beauty-standard Frankenstein: normal-sized women are made to look wan and waifish, older women are remade into ageless nymphs, limbs are lengthened, breasts are enlarged, skin is whitened.
The most obvious and frequent complaint about Photoshop, of course, that its increased use makes both women and men feel completely insecure with their realistic bodies, leading to poor self-esteem, racial insecurity and discrimination, body dysmorphia, fear of aging (and youth worship) and, in the worst cases, life-threatening eating disorders.
Unreal Faces and Bodies: Should The Truth About Photoshopped Fashion Photos Be Exposed?
Seeded on Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:32 PM EST
Article Source: AlterNet.org
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This is a travesty toward women in particular; how they view themselves and how they view others, and how men can't be satisfied if he doesn't have the "perfect" woman.
I have only taken a beginners Photo Elements class, it's incredible. Do you want all your flaws removed, your teeth whitened, your waist slimmer, breasts larger or more cleavage, double chin removed your skinned whitened or more tan...just Photoshop and that's the beginners..? Men do you want 6 pack abs, muscled pecs, no flab, more hair....Photoshop.
If you have someone you don't like....make them fatter. Would you like their head on some elses body, Photoshop
This is so damaging, especially for young girls.
Do you think it's wrong, or should we show only beautiful people?
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#1 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:39 PM ESTthis is why I support Dove! have you seen this one video they took this pretty girl, showed all of the make up put on, fan going for the hair.... then photo-shop. It made me want to vomit! I suffer everyday with my body because i went from a 8 to a 16 after my baby girl, thank goddess for my man telling me every day i am the most beautiful women he know :)
here is the video
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I feel a suspension coming on for something I said somewhere.
Regarding your article, it's what sells. Marketing is all it is. I worked very hard to teach my son and grandsons that everything that can be sold will be marketed in the most insidious ways possible -- just to get your money.
We made up a little song to sing when we are being marketed at and it goes like this: Give us your money, we want your money, we want your money now, bum bum bum. And then we all laugh.
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#2 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:11 PM ESTOh no....Grump, my friend...was it on the muslim thingy?..
.*.Rescue runs to look*
I just, in a round about way, inferred that someone was trailer park white trash, is all. Maybe it was vague enough I will slide. I said it jokingly but that is no guarantee.
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Hi there Grump.
No, I don't think you'll get a suspension. Sister Sally is going to use her ruler and she's going to make it sting...... Suspension is too good a punishment for a Smarty-pants like you...
Seriously: I saw that thread, and that comment and it's so tame I doubt it would be reported. If it were, I suspect that you would just get a warning... But it also depends on our blessed Moderators, not having an insane Monday Morning picking up all the electronic trash left over from a insane weekend trollfestation on the vine... Sometimes they do get overloaded so bad, they can't really make fair decisions..
An old man could get tossed out, with two babies, a hot blond, and the bathwater....
Randilly
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Rand, I wondered about that. I have seen folks get nailed for less and get a day off. No big deal, really. I could get more done around the house. Gawd knows I should.
Good word trollfestation. I like that. Works for me.
So you caught me f'ing with folks over there did you. I was feeling ornery and I was having a bit of fun with them. I successfully pissed of a few wackjobs, he he. One could talk sense to them but, like me I suppose, they are set hard in their ways. People can be so outrageously mean sometimes. And the moderator over there, fieuf. What a man hater. I sure hope she didn't have any sons to torture while they were growing up.
Rand, now tell me straight. Was I being an ass over there?
Rand, you live in Albuquerque and so do I, your humble servant.
I graduated in 1964 from Sandia. Where did you go to high school? Were we mighty enemies, I wonder?
Well to be honest, I just went back and skimmed over the whole thread one more time...
Yes..... You were being a real dogs ass over there... I liked the link you posted...
Sally might use a metal ruler on your knuckles for the "don't be a bigot" line simply because it is calling someone a bigot and techically a violation of the CoH. Chances are, that it won't get reported. Chopping on the moderator over here, for being a man hater, can technically get you in trouble too.. But I suspect she won't make a stink either...
Yeah.. You were pushing your luck... Just imagine how boring the 'vine would be if all the smart-asses like us, just meekly reported all the whack jobs, like we're supposed to, instead of nicely informing them just how cocked up their notions are... That's why I don't rat on anybody, except advertisers.
You ain't the only one that needs to get more work done around the house.
Randilly
I'll be honest with you grump.... I'm from Albuquerque, and lived there a huge part of my life, but I now live in Hick Town, New Mexico. Exactly where, I don't wanna have to mop some stalker off my door step, if you know what I mean... I went to high school in another hick town in New Mexico, not the Burque. And I'm a bit younger than you, still in my mid-40s, still working my teenie tiny little buns off. Running off to the rescue, everytime someone has water jetting out of the wall, or the crapper pukes all over the floor... It's not a Job, It's an Adventure....
But we might have crossed paths sometime over the years....
I am with you all the way on maintaining your privacy. I can easily and safely say I am from Albuquerque. Half the population in the state is here and I would be very difficult for anyone to find.
I was stalked once when I first joined up on the vine. I was stupid and used my real name. First initial, middle initial and last name. Was that dumb or what? I started getting really strange letters mailed from Abq. and then I got severed cat's paws tied with a bow on my doorstep.
I deleted the account and became grump in NM because I was being grumpy about having to delete my account just then. The letters and cat's paws on the porch ended almost immediately and no problems since. I suspect it was someone who I had fired for stealing from the state. At least I didn't have to "mop" anything nasty off the floor or porch.
Well, I guess we all have bad days now and then. I do get so discouraged with mankind and some of those folks were so mean spirited.
But anonymity gives people courage, even me. I really should stay away from stuff I know is going to turn ugly -- ugly even without my help and my snarky and gallows sense of humor. I at least hope you got a laugh or two out of it. I did piss a couple wing nuts off which I thought was funny.
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"don't be a bigot"
I don't see that as a violation....I see it as commenting on his "words" and words were bigoted, if he had said, "you ARE" a bigot that would have been a CoH
I'll plead your case for you, Grump,
Rescue to the rescue. :P
Well, that's what I was thinking. I didn't call anyone a bigot. I was asking everybody to not be a bigot.
rescue to the rescue. hehe.
I don't see that as a violation....I see it as commenting on his "words" and words were bigoted, if he had said, "you ARE" a bigot that would have been a CoH
I'll plead your case for you, Grump,
I would agree... But it's close enough to the edge of the CoH, that it would be:"toting the Line" as the new catchphrase goes... Of course "toting the line", is a phrase that means whatever, I suspect, sally and tyler want it to mean...
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Was I being an ass over there?
And that would have been different how exactly?
.......*laughing at Grump*
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#4 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:02 AM ESTOh, come on. Laughing at me? Really? I was, I admit, poking a couple of those guys with a stick because they were most horrible and hateful. They would not have the courage to say what they were saying at a Christmas party, would they. I could easily say what I said at a party.
I am still wondering about that old crank's sons. Poor things.
- 1 vote
All this photo-shopping in ads has really gone way, way too far.
I'd like to see ads go back to natural. (if it ever existed) This is how humans look, like it or not. Give it up with the unrealistic beauty standards no actual human could ever obtain.
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#5 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:22 PM ESTI totally agree. Now that I've taken the class I can look at some of the women's magazines and the one with the stars, from from an angle and see where it's been photoshopped, especially thinning down the actress. You can also find some really funny bad jobs. I saw one the other day and the article was talking about how thin this actress had become due to the grief of her divorce, and they had taken a really tiny body and put her larger head on it, so she looks incredibly small, but they had put the head at a slightly different angle than she could have managed the way her body and shoulders were pointed. Some times they do that with models to make them look so lithe then everyone strives to be that thin, when in fact they aren't that slim at all. One of the top designers is famous for that.
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#6 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:36 PM ESTSome of those models are so thin they are bordering on anorexic. I met an anorexic once, I will call her Annie. Anorexia Annie was so frail and thin, I was really shocked. I was introduced to her and she stuck out her hand for a hand shake. I took her hand and, my God, there was almost nothing there. I was actually afraid I was going to hurt her so I was very very careful when I took her hand with my right hand. When I shake hands I almost always put my left hand on the person's arm as well. I winced. My goodness, I hoped she did not see what I felt in my face.
I just had a chill run down my back.
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