Do you think media should show not photoshopped girls?

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I mean on Tv and in magazines, they only show girls photoshopped. Do you think it would be better to show celebrities, models non photoshopped with cellulite, breasts as they actually are and so on. I think it would be better cause girls wouldn't feel insecure about their bodies and would know that these are fake and guys would be more aware of cellulite and other things. What do u think?

Bandit74 · Accepted Answer

Well models have a career based 95-98% based on their looks. Even without photoshop their faces are better and bodies are skinnier than the majority of the girls on the planet. That's why they are chosen to be models. Sure they are photoshoped to enhance the effect but even if they weren't, their non-photoshoped pictures would still make people insecure and that's the point, they want you to be insecure. They want you to feel inadequate so you'll buy the product. They realized that if you use attractive people, we'll be more likely to buy the magaziness, products, movies and that if they enhance the models/celebrities beauty through the use of photoshop or makeup we'll be even MORE likely to buy the products.

Also I hope you don't think its just women, it affects men. I'll be honest, I feel like shit too when I see the pics of the 6,2 guy with a 6pack, chiseled jawline, perfectly symetric face and well styled hair. I'll admit that it probably affects women a lot more but its not like it doesn't affect men at all.

Anyways the way I see it is its just the way the client wants it to look. It's kind of an artform. I'm not saying that models are artists but the photographers, clothing designers and photoshopers that all work together to create the final product are. Sure it's often sexually charged and used to peddle products but they are using the original picture and molding it into their vision. It's supposed to be a fantasy. Other artforms like drawing/painting often do the same thing. They often leave out things like cellulight, or they might enchance or decrease certain parts of their subject. They don't depict the subject EXACTLY as it is but rather how the artist sees them in his/her head. Instead of paint or graphite, it's made with pixels.

I think like others have suggested, it would be better to convince people to play less attention to the advertising rather than convince the media to stop what they are doing, because thats probably not happening

Anon-ee-mous · Accepted Answer

Honestly, I'm in the minority here. I don't see why A) Some celebs are actually making a fuss about this, and B) Us normal folks don't have the awareness to realize stuff like that happen.

For the first one, celebs are literally where they're at because of their looks. Sure, they have other talents as well. But there are tons of talented people out there who don't make the cut because they're not the total package. So they're in a position they got with their looks... but then complain about looks and marketers using their looks for whatever purpose. These celebs can pick and choose what jobs they want, and STILL be very well off. So I have no sympathy for people like Keira Knightely and her boob issues.

For the second, we know it happens. Celebs know it happens. The editors know it happens. But every time it happens, we seem to forget about it? Or we lose our touch with reality and get lost in unrealistic images? That's nobodies fault but your own (not YOU, but you get what I mean). Despite what people think, the world can't make you hate yourself. People always like to toss the blame elsewhere. And even though the world can give you plenty of motivators to do so, how you view yourself is entirely up to you.

So on top of who would even enforce such a ban, and also on top of knowing how well (not) people jumping to the "ban it" option actually works, it's not up to other people to make you feel a certain way- that's your job. If you can't even do that, you're weak spirited and blaming someone else definitely isn't going to help your problem.

Excuse any errors, this was typed on my tablet.

BuchitaBuchys · Accepted Answer

Honestly, as much as I completely detest them showing us all these photoshopped images of people, I don't think they should be forced not to.

Yes, I understand that a lot of people become insecure because of it. As much as that sucks, I don't think it's a good enough reason to stop. I think it'd be healthier for us all to not derive our self esteem on how those magazine chicks look. Also, the media is a business. It makes money out of our insecurities.
"Loose weight now with this diet pill!"
"Get shinier, straight and sexy hair"
"This bra magically gives you 2 cup sizes bigger without surgery!!"

Their whole scheme is to feed on your insecurities so you can buy their products. So you can aspire to look like those models, when even those models don't look like that.

Is it sick? Yes. But there are lots of other sick legal businesses as well. That's the price we pay for freedom.
I'm not really a fan of most prohibition cuz it just feels like a cheap cop out sometimes instead of dealing with the problem. (Sometimes, obviously if it directly hurts someone, like child abuse, I am against that type of prohibition, before I get a smartass comment).

becca123 · Accepted Answer

I agree it is unfair that women are held to such high standards of perfection. I also think that men are quite aware of the edits and very few expect that level of perfection in real life. They will look, drool and dream but they know what is real and what isn't.

Girls need to accept themselves as they are and bring confidence with them. That is something men notice and love; when a woman is self assured in herself and her relationships it is super attractive to men.

Women and girls know the photoshop deal, too. We need to stop striving for a perception of perfection and strive instead to be perfect within our own bodies.

zombiebabe · Accepted Answer

damn true!!! i totally agree with the idea

lumos · Answer

Why only girls? Men get photoshopped too, you know...
anyway. I don't want to vote either A or B. I'm a future graphic designer, my work pretty much depends on photoshop and programs like it. I think photoshop is fine as long as it's not overdone. You can use it to fix lighting/contrasts and colors too, things that are really important when it comes to publishing high quality photographs, whether they're from a red carpet event, meant for an ad, a portrait, or something more "artsy". Also, I don't mind people photoshopping blemishes, dark circles, wrinkles etc, for instance. That's stuff that makeup could cover up anyway. My problem with photoshop is basically when 90% of the model in said photo is changed; he/she is made more slim/muscular, given better hair, given bigger eyes/lips, among other things. That's over the top and unnecessary.

DodgersGM · Answer

I would like to see those industries take a LOT more ethical responsibility in how they photoshop and airbrush, yeah. That's probably me living in an idealist world, though.

Perhaps every image that's been altered past a certain point should have a notation of some sort. Kinda like an asterisk or something. I don't know.

XRabbitHeartX · Answer

Photoshop does more harm than good in most cases because fact is it creates far more unhappiness than happiness due to the unrealistic expectations it gives to not only females but males as well.

Voted A.

Anonymous · Answer

I voted A. But I imagine if EVERY SINGLE thing should not be photoshopped, it would be somehow weird too. I think the media should show more of the non photoshopped things (more than they already have now) to educate girls that in real life, celebrities and models are also flawed like normal human being. And I think not just the girls, but also men. Some girls want model/celebrities perfect body to impress their delusional men that watch too much  p*rn  thinking that normal girls look like that. Yes I know some people do have naturally perfect body, don't have cellulite and all that, but they're not the average population.

yaddayaddayadda02 · Answer

I think it would be wiser for girls to not base their self esteem on magazines.

LauraMarx · Answer

I voted A, but I'm not sure honestly. There has been Image Production in this manner long before photoshop! I mean I think its sure a harmful thing but I think its a symptom of a much deeper problem. I think Euro-America has some harmful ideas about attractiveness, and what makes someone attractive, and that needs to be deconstructed!

Prettykangaroos · Answer

It doesn't really bother me if they photoshop people (within reason). I feel like if I were a celebrity and I had a huge pimple on the day that I had a photo shoot, I would be sad if they wouldn't photo shop it off. I don't think they should change the shape of their bodies though. Just smooth out skin.

Zango91 · Answer

I think that would put 75% celebrities out of business

Anonymous · Answer

The knowledge of photoshop and other photo misdirecting skills is so prevalent in today's world... What use is it to show pictures without editing? If you don't know that it is fake, you have a lot more problems than insecurity. Every single picture that is put out in the mainstream has had some sort of editing to make the subject look better, that goes from people, to food, to animals etc...

BertMacklinFBI · Answer

I think the media should have free reign to do whatever they want. its the media. if they didn't show photoshopped people then there wouldn't be girls like you against it. so its all good :D

genericname85 · Answer

I hate bring tricked and fooled. I consider photoshopping as such and therefore I hate it.

Crazyced · Answer

I see real, beautiful girls everyday. I know what they look like.

kangy · Answer

they won't do that it wouldn't make products sell i like to see them not being photoshopped though

SurströmmingLover · Answer

Non photoshoped girls. I don't wanna look to fake Barbie dolls!

bubbletrouble · Answer

I personally don't care. If they outlawed it, fine. If they didn't, fine. Don't listen to the media.

Anonymous · Answer

Only if they ban  P*rnography  as well. It does the same thing to men.

Mesonfielde · Answer

I think they shouldn't Photoshop them at all.

Anonymous · Answer

I know of at least 5 waitresses in 2 restaurants that looks just like the girls in magazines.. Not everyone is Photoshopped

NoDoubt · Answer

A!!! Definitely a

Williaaaaam · Answer

doesn't bother me

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