butterfly: (Huntress -- Gabrielle)
butterfly ([personal profile] butterfly) wrote2009-02-06 10:09 pm

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.

[identity profile] killingfrost87.livejournal.com 2009-02-08 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Which promo pic? ::is curious::

[identity profile] deepdarkness.livejournal.com 2009-02-08 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
That one where she's sitting in a martini glass. Um...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Diary_of_a_Call_Girl here's the Wikipedia page. It's that one. If you look closely, her stomach is totally flat. And the entire picture is airbrushed to within an inch of its life on top of that. In some of the Showtime pictures, it barely looks like her at all.

[identity profile] killingfrost87.livejournal.com 2009-02-08 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, some of them were ridiculous, its a shame that this is what its come to