This week we talked about print media's big, dirty secret: photo-shopping and airbrushing photos in magazines and ads to make the models look 'perfect' We watched a very short video to illustrate this point. Check it out--it's scary:
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/flat4.asp?id=6909
The Sisters found this trend very disturbing, since many girls/women compare themselves to these images which don't even represent reality. Seeing these images can negatively impact how girls/women see themselves. An airbrushed model with perfect skin (no pores, even!)and skinny, 'perfect' bodies can make girls/women feel inadequate and can even influence eating disorders.
A teacher Sister commented that now that she knows this secret, she is reassured and can flip through a magazine and just think to herself, 'fake, fake, fake.'
Have you ever compared yourself to photos of models in magazines? How do you feel after looking at one 'perfect' image after another? Is it any wonder why our society's perception of beauty is so distorted?
Pssst...pass this SECRET on to your friends! It's time for REAL beauty to be celebrated--the beauty that comes from being comfortable and happy with yourself on the inside and out.
3 comments:
I can't say I've ever done magazines or whatev, bu that movie STILL freaked me out! It was awesome. It should be shown in an assembly or class meeting sometime.
When you read magizines, it seems like there is this seceret paradise were pretty, perfect, plastic people have fun. The world is beautiful for what it is. Why can't we all just accept that??? And the woman's eyes in the video. She got color contacts, eyeshadow, mascara, and they made her eyes bigger. But they were beautiful in the first place. Do the make-up companies realize how much harm they are doing???
here are some other really good ones:
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/dsef07/t5.aspx?id=7373
They are really powerful. Lets try to send these to friends, so they can wake up and see themselves for who they are, inside.
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