butterfly | Because culture says that women never look good enough.

I'm mostly putting this here as a personal reminder of how Western (specifically American, in this case) society works to destroy female self-image.

At the Iwanex Studio website, under their portfolio section, you can see some of the retouched photos of celebrities that they've done... when you scroll over the image, you can see what the picture looked like before it was photoshopped. See Cameron Diaz's breasts reshaped and her arms and legs made smaller! See freckles disappear! See Julia Stiles' breasts and hips grow! Watch as women are given uniform 'hourglass' figures!

They fuck with some guys' appearances, too, but not to the same extent.

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Because a piece of scenery doesn't have senses or a mind. It can't understand that it's been judged as inadequate by society. Women can and they do, in vast numbers.

It's not your friend Ivan's fault -- as I said, it's society as a whole that sends the message. He probably wouldn't be successful if he didn't do such a complete job. He works within the system and venturing outside the system is much less secure. And, these days especially, jobs can be very hard to walk away from.

Because culture says that women never look good enough.

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