photo discussion, in class..
I think nothing annoys me more then how women are shown in media and how it is accepted as being ok or 'not a problem' that its done by magazines or so on.
Its people with these sort of mentalities that simply encourage how women are portrayed in media and magazines and not seeing the longer term implications of it
As someone whos fought with issues around standards for the majority of my teens, I know the long term implications well.
When I was 17 my boyfriend saw me in a bikni and said he thought it was funny that I had a nice stomach like models but how my back had some 'fat' on it. At 5'9 and 115 lbs I was hardly fat.. but thanks much to what he's seens in magazine like Maxim, and seeing those airbrushed realities as reality he expected only the same from me.
I took his little comment to heart, and within a year or so was under 90 lbs and hospitalized because they told me my heart was going to stop, or maybe even result in a heart attack.
It took me months of being in the hospital and months of work afterwords to learn what I saw and what he saw in the media that is implyed to be real is anything but, I think the most disturbing thing about photo manipulation is the long term impacts its has on a lot of women, even me.
I wonder often if women were viewed without touch up how much that would change the dynamics and implications of how women and men think of women and what is considered a reality for women or not..