A group of French politicians has proposed a law that would require a warning to be placed on digitally enhanced fashion images. From
The Telegraph:
A group of 50 politicians want a new law stating published images must have bold printed notice stating they have been digitally enhanced.
Campaigning MP Valerie Boyer, of President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party, said the wording should read:"Retouched photograph aimed at changing a person's physical appearance".
Mrs Boyer, who has also written a government report on anorexia and obesity, added: "We want to combat the stereotypical image that all women are young and slim.
"These photos can lead people to believe in a reality that does not actually exist, and have a detrimental effect on adolescents. "Many young people, particularly girls, do not know the difference between the virtual and reality, and can develop complexes from a very young age.
I don't really see the point, unless they were also going to require disclaimers for makeup and flattering lighting. And anyway, the root of the problem is not that images are altered, but that the media focuses obsessively and very superficially on beauty. Replacing airbrushed models with non-airbrushed models won't change that fact, because the models will probably still look better than your average person.
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Personally I 'd like to see the culture of wearing make up to disappear. I don't understand why women think it improves the way they look, it just makes me think that they are insecure and often they just look like clowns.
If there was a lighting trick that created the appearance of longer eyelashes it would be deceptive (but it is the kind of deception that commonplace) but not a lie. I admit that there is plenty of gray area but that does not make telling lies OK(I am very aware that advertising has become about lies but that is exactly what I object too--persuasion and even deception are OK but lies are not).
Actors/Actresses/Singers/Models are products too.
The whole punting the issue as "the media are creating the superficiality of beauty" is also a copout even if true. That is not the point, yes some people are genetically different and appeal aesthetically to more people but modifying a whole wide range of people to look like the genetic "outliers" is hardly the solution.
Kudos to the French on this one!! :cheese:
What about changing how people think, rather than changing how they look?
Anyway, what I think would be hilarious is to see all you folk who say "yeah! they are ALL fake and NOOO woman is REALLY that skinny or that beautiful naturally." proven wrong. I think it'd really cause your fatty, ugly little hearts to just pop with terror. It'd really cut the balls off of most women, so to speak, if they found out that not every model really needs editing in order to be beautiful.
I rather like seeing females with out makeup, but that doesn't mean I think its terrible that some wear it. I think males should be more free to wear makeup with out being judged as "gay" or effeminate. Its just a way of bringing certain aspects of the face into stronger focus. The positive effect of concealment is that the pure shape and texture of the face becomes more apparent, while wrinkles, scars and blemishes disappear.
What about changing how people think, rather than changing how they look?
Thats what the earpieces are for 😊. . . besides, if everyone agrees, then everyone is stripped of the uttermost freedom - one of the only good Heinlien bits left in the STARSHIP TROOPERS movie was Micheal Ironside's line "Son, never be afraid to make up your own mind - in the end, its the only real freedom we have."
Coming form acountry where the average 12YO girl weighs 120Kgs ( Wiki for a conversion to the British measures you seppos still love) and the average size compares to a US32 and women are claiming that their increased diabetes and heart problems are due to work stress . . . You see why I take these arguments with a grain of salt.
BTW I just HATE kid's cartoons which emphasize on girls having unnaturally long legs and big eyes, for example, Bratz. To me they look utterly idiotic, let alone that there is no story aside from 'hey look, I'm, like, totally cool'. Sry for bad English.
I dare say that girls in Serbia are not generally overweight and most of them are quite pleasant to look at.
Ummmmm . . . from my experience, after age 30 most Serbian females put on a lot of weight, much like rural Italians and in fact rural Europeans of every stripe.
By your theory, the people of equatorial Africa, safely devoid of telvisoons and magazines, must be pictures of health. Care to comment?