Outrage! Insanity! Airbrushing Gone Bad.

Thursday, October 8, 2009 by Dea.

I cannot believe that we women allow these sorts of things.  I wrote about the Self cover a while back, and it seems that Self isn’t the only outlet that thinks that covers shouldn’t reflect reality, but “inspire women to want to be their best.”  Are they serious??

It seems Ralph Lauren is now on the surrealistic advertising bandwagon.  Who do they think they are fooling with this picture??

How in the world do they expect us to believe that this woman’s waist is this small?  Smaller than her head, which is also bigger than her pelvis??  Why even bother having a model in the first place?  Why not just start from computer aided animation and go with it?

We have airbrushed Twiggy,  lightened Beyonce, tried to fix perfection, and removed a pregnancy bulge!  What is so warped about these companies that they shun the true female form?  What is so wrong with women in our society that we allow this?  The shapely, beautiful female form should be revered, not distorted.  It’s disgusting that we’ve allowed ourselves to cow to these expectations that are not only unrealistic, but complete lunacy!

So, thanks but no thanks, Self - I am not striving for what you feel is an ideal.  I’m not going to look at these fake photos and feel anything but disgust.  I used to like Ralph Lauren products, but I don’t think I’ll buy even a towel now.

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