Comments on: Outrageous Photoshopping: Why We Should Keep Talking About it

By: International Women’s Day 2010 | Blogger For Hire

International Women’s Day 2010 | Blogger For Hire — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:11:11 +0000

[...] themselves with plastic surgery; because until I started educating myself, I never realized how heavily manipulated those media images really are; and because if we don’t know they are heavily manipulated, and [...]

By: Thanksgiving « Rambling Along…

Thanksgiving « Rambling Along… — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:56:28 +0000

[...] disclaimer, which I know Vered, blogger at MomGrind, will appreciate. Yes, this picture has been slightly altered. Circles were removed under everyone’s eyes [...]

By: Nurit

Nurit — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:58:22 +0000

“Fashion victims” comes to my mind again, but here it’s not funny at all. This is really bad and sad. Tragic!

By: megan gilbert

megan gilbert — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:51:41 +0000

The shape and sizes are unreal! But what message do you think they are sending to the consumers, especially the young? So when your teen is freaking out in front of the mirror she had plenty of inspiration.

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:19:18 +0000

OMG Vered – those are the most hideous photoshop pics I’ve ever seen. They don’t even look normal

By: Michelle @ Find Your Balance

Michelle @ Find Your Balance — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:35:22 +0000

Wait – those are REAL ads? Get out of here. I wonder if flipping casually through a magazine if anyone even notices how obvious the photoshopping is. It’s much more apparent flat on the screen.

By: Lori Hoeck

Lori Hoeck — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:29:08 +0000

Bobbleheads on elongated stick figures. Not my idea of beauty. If they keep this up, I can see the talking heads in the animated television show Futurama being all the rage.

By: Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach b

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach b — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:14:59 +0000

You mean those photos AREN’T real?

You’ve just destroyed my illusions. WAH!!!!!!

Luckily, I’ve made certain to raise my kids by reality standards (ie, here’s what’s healthy, here’s what’s not). But I have heard from other parents that’s very difficult to do at times….

By: Friar

Friar — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:32:46 +0000

But you know what?

These magazines are out there, and they sell well. So there’s obviously a demand for them.

But who BUYS these magazines?

It’s certainly not us guys, I can assure you.

In fact, name any normal guy who finds those anorexic stick-figures attractive.

So who’s actually perpetuating this myth of beauty?

Who’s feeding into this industry?

The big bad media? Or uninformed knuckle-dragging males?

Or…(God Forbid), is it possible that WOMEN themselves have a lot to do with it?

Ladies, just stop BUYING this crap!

And the problem will go away.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:09:23 +0000

Vered,
Thank you for your good posts and sharing your funnies and your hopes. It is hard work to share life with all children these days. Young men need to figure out that females are whole people and real people…as do they need to figure out who they are as whole people/real people….and celebrate the diversity.

I just voted and we have an initiative on the ballot here that promotes HATE against some folks that are different from the “norm”…..or the media people. I think it will be defeated as it is so obvious…

We have one woman running for City Council who I believe is going to win because she looks so “good” – if she were blond she would be considered an ” air head”. She wants everything to be pretty and to get buses off the road and more parking spaces….has never been to a city hall meeting….but I am sure she is going to win….her mind has been air brushed. To me she is as obvious as the pictures above…but apparently not to others. Hmmm do we really have such a long, long way to go?