i'm exhausted. well, tired is more accurate: sick and tired.
Faith Hill's 'Redbook' Cover Airbrushing pisses folks off (note: adult language in the linked article)
best line from those articles, which pretty much sums it up:
"It primes little girls to think they should diet and dream about the cosmetic-surgery options available to them, and it makes body the primary place for self-identity."
if my, your, our bodies are the primary place from where our self-identity stems, then we're much more easily persuaded to BUY BUY BUY and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. but, if (*gasp*) our self-identities actually stem from our:
abilities,
relationships,
intellect,
beliefs,
hard work,
family,
goals, and/or
achievements??
well, then.
i guess we don't need to buy anything, or go on a diet, or get a boob job, or wear something we don't want to wear...
and i guess we're just fine the way we are, aren't we?
and i guess we deserve equal rights because we are equally human. hmm.
look how easy that was.
3 comments:
Yeah, I really don't understand why magazines bother to airbrush anymore, with the accessibility of paparazzi shots - except that they have a completely unrealistic worldview to promote.
And, seriously? It always makes people look a LITTLE bit like aliens. I mean, Oprah? did not look right on that Vogue cover. scary.
i know! and hadn't oprah just said she gained all kinds of weight- so, um, who's gonna beleive that she actually was that skinny already? it's so pointless, and yet so insidious.
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