Newsweek's latest cover shows Sarah Palin without airbrushing - how different would the world be without it?
If, instead of being presented with spurious perfection, we were able to see the normal, natural, imperfections of politicians, pop stars, actors, and others in the media. Would it change our attitudes to beauty to something a little more realistic?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/163605
I’d hate to be a teenager now. It’s alright for us we can question everything we see and have learnt to be cynical. It doesn’t work like that when you are 13 and you hate yourself yet all you see around you are images of perfection.
I’d like to see a law were if airbrushing/enhancements have been used they have to tell you at the bottom of the page.
My daughter bought a size 8 skirt on Saturday and asked me ‘ what that is in American sizes ‘ I’d love to say I was calm in my answer but I went to full throttle banshee mode. I resent the fact that the powers that be have more influence on my daughter than I can in such matters.
Haz | Oct 13, 2008
Will be a refreshing change. We probably won’t recognise most of them tho’.
Faith | Oct 13, 2008
I thought it was a great move…. It helps you to feel a bit less detached from people in the public eye when you can see they are only human too.
I really do not believe, bar the most superficial and vacant, anyone would think people’s photos, warts and all, would be a bad thing.
The problem is, some people really need air-brushing. Not wanting to kick a man in difficulty, but Gordon Brown’s eyebags are not really what I need to see everytime I read the paper…. Better still, can we airbrush him completely out of every picture?
Omstarts | Oct 13, 2008
I think she still looks great. I hate her policies, but so what if she has the odd bag, would it be such a big taboo if she were a man.
I wish more magazines would print natural photos, it may prevent magazines like Heat rushing around, desperately trying to photograph someone on a bad day. We all have flaws, lets learn to live with it
GRANDADSHIRT | Oct 13, 2008
I find all this so called perfection repellent, is so unrealistic for one thing, and lacks character for another. There’s no getting away from the fact that the Stepford Wives thing gels with some people, those that are influenced by the superficial. Even on this site I despaired at the users that focused on "she’s a looker" when she appeared on the scene. Fail to see it myself. Cromwell was right with "Warts and all".
Ern T | Oct 13, 2008
When HD tv kicks in there’ll be no hiding.Apparently it’s a b!tch for showing up imperfections,lol.Perfection is in the eye of the beholder.Too perfect can look plastic and soulless.Take Kenny Rogers the singer.He’s bemoaning the fact that his plastic surgery has robbed him of the warmth in his eyes.I can see where he’s coming from.
Some more real people in the media would help lower the bar to a more realistic level where people can see that sometimes it’s those little imperfections that add to attractiveness.
Fox news is just so funny to watch.It’s awash with pin-backed,perma-tanned,uber sparkly toothed svelt reporters.What on earth would they do with the likes of Eamon Holmes?
Misty Blue | Oct 13, 2008
mORE REALISTIC & MORE FUN
mikeydred | Oct 13, 2008
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