A Minor Incident
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neverthoughtiwouldsaythis-but:
she looks better un-photoshopped.
just casually deleted the little argument going on there, to add some relevant input
I think the main, horrifying thing about these airbrushed pictures being distributed, is there has been a lot of media hype calling this beautiful girl fat. It’s like, the media refuses to let her be proud of her body. They’ve even changed her face shape, making her almost unrecognisable. We always rant about how airbrushed photos affect us, but imagine how they must affect the people being airbrushed. Imagine feeling super confident and good about yourself after a photo shoot, and then seeing the end result and realising you weren’t good enough for the magazine. It must be crushing.
I remember, when my friend was practising photo shopping, she took a photo of my face and airbrushed it without my permission or even warning me. Personally, I found the un-airbrushed photo of myself more attractive, since it looked like me, but the airbrushed version was so disheartening. She’d changed the shape of my nose, elongated my face and taken out the scars by my eyes and the scar on my chest from my operation. She only did it as light hearted practice for her art exam, but it crushed me. She didn’t realise, and perhaps the photo-editors don’t realise, that by airbrushing out all the little imperfections on my face she made me feel like I wasn’t good enough. The little scars and freckles and the bump in my nose were all things that made me, me, and she took them away.
Similarly, by changing Jennifer Lawrence’s body, they’re telling her that no matter how successful she is, no matter how talented she is, she will not be good enough because of the things about her that make her who she is.
And I just find that sad.
Couldn’t have said it better.
the media is stupid, she’s gorgeous.
Poll: which picture is hotter?
The unedited one.
The edited one looks creepy.
What’s really upsetting about this is that they change her actual body to make her look thinner. Is that really what we in America pride ourselves on? Changing out bodies to always be thinner? It’s disheartning for people who will never be stick thin like myself to see things like this. It’s basically the media telling me I am not nor will ever be good enough. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with how she looks unedited. She is beautiful. So what, she’s not a twig, that doesn’t’ make her less beautiful or any less a person. One of the reasons I’ve come to admire Jennifer is because in an interview where she was talking about playing Mystique, she said sjhe was going to do it right. She said she could remember kids being on diets and getting eating disorders when she was younger, and she doesn’t want to project that image on girls today. She said if she was playing that character and being naked for most of the movie she was going to do it right, she would have hips, thighs, and boobs. It enrages me that the media decided that what she thought of herself and her pride in how she looked wasn’t good enough so they photoshopped her. Seeing something like this is just outraging, especially when people see that in magazines and they don’t think it’s photoshopped, so they think that that’s normal and that all girls should look that way when let’s be honest, we don’t. It’s really just discouraging and does nothing good for anyone’s image to see this.
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Reblogging in hopes my headache will go away. It’s seriously the size of a small country. This gif reminds me of my handsome. How I miss him.
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