http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVAl73JvLM&feature=youtu.be
So my friend sent me this the other day thinking I'd enjoy it, and I did!! I have a huge issue with the way media uses women and men without giving any semblance of accurate representation of human life. Now I'm not saying that beautiful men and women shouldn't be used in media or something like that and Photoshop helps when a model had a 6am flight and a small zit, but what they do to these images are so over the top that the original face and body are gone, these women who are already beautiful are being transformed into impossible standards.
The problem I have most with this type of photo manipulation is that it promotes that this is what human beauty is, and it's unachievable! Leaving women to feel lackluster and bad about their bodies because they don't look like what they are told and perceive as beautiful, while at the same time setting these ridiculously high expectations for men with what the average woman looks like. There's no reason to take already beautiful people and change there image so greatly. I feel like it takes away from the beauty that these models already have, that they are considered some of the most beautiful people but even they aren't good enough and need to be altered.
This is so true. The media portrays women who are skinny, short, long hair, and a "Coca-Cola body". This portrayal makes women believe they are not beautiful and so they try to change themselves. That is why plastic surgeries, anorexic people, and even suicides come from. People believing that they are not beautiful and they begin hurting themselves in order to become "beautiful".
ReplyDeleteVery true. the sadest realization is that girls who are literally starving themselves and working themselves to death are envying girls in media that arent even real, just photoshopped. There is rarely a real representation of women in the media
ReplyDeleteI soo hate that this is the case, there's so many different shapes and sizes of women these days that it makes no sense for there to be a "standard". I just find it funny that these women are trying sooo hard to look like women who don't even look like that!
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