Because culture says that women never look good enough.

[butterfly]

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.

Comments

[danamaree.livejournal.com]

I'm not disagreeing entirely, but there is a demand for this, and where there is demand there is supply. *shrug*

I have no answers.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Oh, I definitely agree that there's demand. Just as there was demand in England for tightly-laced corsets that deformed the torso and inhibited breathing, just as there was demand for extreme footbinding in some parts of Chinese culture that led to three-inch long 'lotus feet' (which are, um, terrifying). What women are told they need to look like is often very damaging to them.