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When even naturally beautiful women are photoshopped within an inch of their lives, what hope is there for the rest of us?
(Beyonce Knowles)
picture: dunno source, via our lol builder. lol caption: Jaded4good
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wow firt comment
Good Firt there.
Can you firt harder next time?
Asshat.
Although I agree with the sentiment, she’s not actually naturally beautiful. Sans make-up she looks like a man.
THANK you.
I think you should realise that she looks very much like a woman in fact she is one !
The reason you like skinny stick thin girls is because they appear weak and it makes a little skinny woman hater like you feel like a big stong man.
Better luck next time you are an iDiot.
amen!
I’m getting sick of these lame ass pictures.
You’re ugly, there isn’t enough photoshopping power in the world that would make you attractive, deal with it and move on with your life.
huh, what…sorry… was too busy checking out the cleavage
The ridiculously fake looking cleavage? It looks like it was CGI’d.
huh, what…sorry… was too busy checking out the JPEG compression artifacts.
Yep >_<
U-G-L-Y You aint got no alibi YOU UGLY!
She looks more like Barbie than a real person to me. I agree about the CGI-boobs.
If it wasn’t so successful, people wouldn’t use photoshop. What photo manipulation does these days is help create the ‘ideal’ form. It is not a matter of if it actually exists or not, but rather of what people wish they could look like (no I am not assuming everyone thinks or wants this, but if many didn’t…then they wouldn’t do it).
Meh, this topic isn’t really all that controversial People who don’t realize that this fantasy image is NOT realistic are what causes these images such a bad name (because they take it seriously and blame self conscious issues on these fantasy images…it is like blaming violence on videogames, but that is another story itself.). It is only a big deal if you choose to throw a hissy fit about it.
Fake or not, it sells.
It sells because of people like you who disregard it’s damages to the mentallity of our young children who look at these enhanced photos and don’t realize that they are enhanced, since they’re children. Then they take that idea into their heads and perpetuate the issue by believing that there are people who look like that naturally and it’s not until the damage is done that later in life they learn the truth. Often, these once impressionable children grow up to work at magazines where they enhance photographs to unrealistic proportions and the cycle continues. Until you step up and say, “This is wrong”, it’s simply going to continue. You seem to be a very intelligent person. Perhaps you could put that towards creating a better world for future generations by realizing that by saying “it sells” your simply contributing to the issue and not the solution.
It is still not the fault of the picture, the person, or the program.
If children are taking these images to heart because they do not realize it is enhanced, it is the job of their parents to make them realize its enhanced.
We blame magazines, we blame photoshop, hell we even blame cartoons… but god forbid we blame ourselves for teaching our own damn children the vaule of self confidence.
I do agree that it’s partially parental responsibility to teach their children about self-confidence. However, pictures and the way that the media perpetuates the so-called “ideal” man or woman also can do great psychological damage, particularly to young girls. It isn’t the picture, or photoshop, or whatever you necessarily want to say. It’s the way that the world says, “Hey, this is what is beautiful. If you don’t look like this, you aren’t beautiful.” There are some young girls who lack just enough self-confidence to believe it. Yes, that’s where it goes back to the parents. But it’s also the fault of the media for portraying women like this.
Ya, it is the Devil Made Me Do It mentality. Responsibility starts with the person. If I have a daughter, I plan to have fun showing her the difference between reality and photoshop. Hopefully it will have a positive impact or cause her to doubt my sanity…
Hopefully is right. I have two daughters. I do everything I can to point these things out and keep their self-esteem up and still my youngest (when only
said she was ugly and shouldn’t live. She’s ten now and better but with a lot of people judging, and what the teenagers can be like, I don’t know how long it will last and it’s scary. My daughter is beautiful (enough that teenage boys have commented on it, not rudely or anything but she definitely gets noticed) but she still feels ugly and will sometimes wear three layers of clothing and try to hide. I’m not saying it’s entirely the medias fault but how they present women doesn’t help. You know what she said? ” Don’t worry, mom. I don’t want to look like Paris Hilton. She’ll die some day. But look at all these beautiful women……I just don’t want to look like me anymore. Why can’t I be them?” What can I do? Well, I’m her mom and she and her sister are my world so she’s on a waiting list for therapy.
not sure why the happy face showed up. hit a wrong key I guess. It should read “when only 8 she…”
Very true point. I can see many different views on this issue, and I decided to post this one. I actually find this subject fascinating because we, as humans, have always created an ideal image. This, however, is visibly more of a ‘problem’ because of the mass media and communication that spreads it. People are bombarded by so many images (good, bad, photoshoped, and natural), that eventually we start to ignore them…which only makes it sink in deeper.
I know for me personally, I use photoshop to touch up pictures quite often. Whether it be a portrait of a person, or a macro shot of a honeybee, I will use photoshop the same. For me, I use it to make the world see what I see. When I see people I love, I don’t see their imperfections…their blemishes, scars, acne, large pores, or oily skin. I create the image on the computer to match the image I’ve created of them in my mind. I suppose it could be similar to what happens when a kid gets their high school senior pictures done.
As said below, I agree with the comments on parents needing to be there for their kids. However, many times in today’s world the parents get caught up in it too. I know my mother was always telling me to go put makeup on, to fix up my hair, or to wear a nicer shirt (yes, I am a girl). I suppose I am the rare person who grew up NOT wanting to be like the pictures in the magazines, and the people on TV. I didn’t like the attention that was associated with looking *that* good.
But with parenting, they can only do so much. For example, no matter how much you preach ‘no sex before marriage’, your kid still has just as likely as a chance of having sex.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18093769/
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/12300
=) Thank you for your well spoken replies everyone!!
Well, when you preach abstinence, young people tend to rebel. They’re less likely to do so if you don’t preach such silly morals to them. I always laugh at the wait-until-marriage folks, because the phenomenon is well-known.
“damages to the mentality of our young children.” you know, i grew up with all thi stuff around me too, and you know what? i feel great about my less than “perfect” body because i learned better from my mom. if you cant teach your child to feel good about themselves regardless of the media, you fail as a parent. same thing with “teaching homosexual marriage” equalling teaching that gay sex is ok. if you dont agree with it, teach your child better. because in their formative years, who do they look up to the most? sure, my idol as a kid was Jareth, but when i needed a good female model to follow, it wasnt brittney spears or paris hilton. it was my mom. and i’m the confident sexy gal i am today because of her! not beceause of the media. so take your “oh the media is influencing my kids and i cant do anything about it!!” crap and take a parenting class.
oh, and video game violence? only makes kids who are ALREADY VIOLENT more aggressive. read the studies, if you can find ones that have an actual control group (theres like, 3)
This is one suckass photoshop job.
You better be kidding me.
No, it is kind of bad; proper retouching wouldn’t be so obvious. It’s like make-up: when it’s overdone like a French whore, it’s bad — when it looks more natural, it’s good.
whats wrong with french whores?
Yea, she looks like her face is made out of plastic in this picture. A good photoshop job wouldn’t have done that.
I never thought she was all that good looking. How did she get so popular?
Because people have mistaken her dying-cat screeching for singing.
Does someone have to be beautiful to be popular?!? What lame-ass question is that?
Is she REALLY ugly or are you guys just hatin’ for no reason?
I always thought she was pretty and she could sing, but who I am to disagree with the other people here >.>
Fat girls of the world unite and make captions!
Unless you’re a size 4 like me and still feel no hope.
It seems to me that if women are so determined to feel ugly there’s not a lot the media can do about it. There are, in fact, real and dramatic differences in attractiveness among real people. That’s not something the media created, and it’s pretty ridiculous to believe that it is. But physical appearance isn’t the only kind of difference between people, and it’s not the only element of attractiveness. There are plenty of physically unattractive men and women out there who are loved and respected. We don’t have to pretend that physical attractiveness is a weird artificial creation of the media.
I know, questioning the old “the media make us care about appearance” story on a site about celebrities is a sure-fire way to attract angry, desperate responses. But maybe folks could try to see past celebrity just once, hey? Celebrities just aren’t all that special, folks. You don’t have to believe everything the celebrity culture is selling you. There’s a whole real world out here.
I agree entirely, on both the statement that the media is not some force of evil that suddenly makes people feel like fat ugly slobs(regardless if they are or are not) and that an ‘LOL picture’ isn’t the place to describe it.
It’s important to take every picture here with a grain of salt and for everyone to stop taking it so damn seriously.
That caption would be more effective if they had actually chosen a naturally beautiful woman. You know, beautiful without makeup. Because that stuff is just as unnatural as Photoshop.
Photoshop itself is more natural.
Everything is faked these days
Air brushing for the 21st century. (and of course, selling is the end of all)
Yeah, women are ‘determined to feel ugly.” They are born wanting so much to feel ugly, and their best friends are so jealous that she feels uglier than they do.
What the fuck is wrong with women? I guess that’s why you can’t keep one.
I’ll bet that you didn’t mean to reveal this much about yourself.
Wow, you’re kind of scary. Not all of we women are born wanting to feel ugly or are jealous of better looking women. There are a helluva lot of us who are completely comfortable in our less-than-perfect skins and can appreciate other people’s beauty (both men’s and women’s) without feeling inadequate. You just don’t know about us because we’re quiet. We’re happy with how we look so we’re not whining and complaining to the world about our appearance.
Amen.
What you have is mental health. It’s WAY more attractive than celebrity looks…or whining about celebrity looks.
Stop whining and eat your keyboard, fatty.
The question asks.
“what hope is there for the rest of us?”
Easy, learn the Myspace angle, and how to use the healing brush.
photoshop blah blah body image blah blah, what I want to know is where the hell is the funny?
I second that.
Like, really?
It does not take that much work to look good, I don’t see what your concern is.
She’s ok. But she so doesn’t need any airbrushing, either. Total fail.
lol, fat chicks bitching again. Put down the burger.
This is why the caption was made in the first place.
If you’d just stfu we could get back to the funny.
the answer is gimp
actually i dont see much of a difference, its a computer age and all things are altered to look great using computers, even male celebrities are also photoshoped to look nice, I moved in a new neighborhood, i was searching for property to let in central london for quite some time and i accidentally found this amazing website no agents 24 with loads and loads of information about tips for tenants, tips for moving, hips. I really like my new house. i went out for some fresh air today early morning, although i am generally not the morning person type but i have to admit i really enjoyed it.
i think she is so naturally beautiful especially if you’ve seen her lately. she’s completely embraced her curves and wears hardly any make up; this is just a bad picture with too much photoshop that people have decded to be mean about