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While watching MissRepresentation in my Critical Thinking class, I found it fascinating that almost all photos of women that are publicized are photoshopped.  I find this to be terrible.  Why ask a woman to come in for a photoshoot if you are not even going to appreciate her natural beauty, to the point where you feel the need to change it?  It is horrifying.  It must be so damaging to those being photographed, to have to feel like they are not good enough to be themselves.  To have to constantly feel as though they in their natural beauty are not able to be accepted by society.  These women must feel like they have to be photoshopped in order to be accepted, which of course is not true.  This process also has very damaging effects on the women and girls who look at these image.  For the most part, they know not of the photoshop, and are then held to an unattainable ideal.  These girls and these women look to these models as what society accepts.  They try to live up to these beauty standards, so that they know for sure that they will be accepted by society.  However, because these photos are photoshopped,  they will never be able to reach this standard.  They will be constantly working towards the unattainable.  It is such a shame, that while these magazines could be spreading good, and self love, they are only spreading tricks and false ideals.

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  1. UnknownMay 30, 2018 at 4:58 PM

    I think the question you asked in the beginning sabout why we even have someone come in to take pictures if we are just going to photoshop them anyways. I could see that sometime in the near future human models are abandoned for a completely digital rendering of a model, one that can actually be "perfect". And this of course would only further develop all the issues that you spoke about with self image and confidence.

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  2. UnknownMay 31, 2018 at 3:02 PM

    I also think it is really sad that already beautiful women are being photoshopped. It creates an unrealistic standard for kids and can be really harmful

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