Thursday, April 17, 2008
magazine covers
I think photoshopping magazine covers is such a norm today it would be hard to completely steer away from it. However, I think our society has become so obsessed with being thin that it has gone to far. It is okay to alter things here and there to make someone look a bit better, after all they are on a magazine cover for the whole world to see, but once you start dramatically chaning the size of a person, you are lying to the public in a way. The picture is not acurately displaying the person but the public is supposed to believe that is actually what the person looks like, the magazines are deceving the public. In the case the the star of Ugly Betty, it seems as though there was extreme pressure for her to look like all the other size 2 actresses so they did just that.
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I agree. Sometimes they just go too far. The people on the covers do not even look real any more. Everything is airbrushed. Isn't it better to just leave some things the way they are? Beauty is natural. Things such as this contribute to the overly materialistic and shallow society that we have today. Since these magazine covers and other publications have such a high influence on the way people perceive themselves, these publications can also be used to change this negative association with beauty.
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