I was just reading an article on The Huffington Post by Jennifer Donahue where she mentions how the nude pics posted from Allure magazine have already received 353,000 page views and 530 comments. (I scrolled through some of the 530 comments, and the most recent one posted was this one: "Wow. More airbrushed images of female humans. You guys are easily amused." That about sums up how I feel about the pics myself.)
Donahue writes about the perils of promoting the "perfect" female body and how sickeningly prevalent it is.
I love how Donahue closed her article: "My message is this: millions of young people are watching. They are forming their personal and professional identities, based in part on what they see around them. The images they see now have lasting effects on their self-image, their views of how they should behave in relationships and in their work. So what should we tell them about those things?"
Exactly. How can we keep putting out crazy-fake, surgically-enhanced, heavily airbrushed images of women and expect our young girls (or their mothers for that matter) to have a healthy self esteem? Or any self esteem at all??
Here's a link to the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-donahue/nude-allure-is-pornograph_b_186636.html
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I was just reading an article on The Huffington Post by Jennifer Donahue where she mentions how the nude pics posted from Allure magazine have already received 353,000 page views and 530 comments. (I scrolled through some of the 530 comments, and the most recent one posted was this one: "Wow. More airbrushed images of female humans. You guys are easily amused." That about sums up how I feel about the pics myself.)
Donahue writes about the perils of promoting the "perfect" female body and how sickeningly prevalent it is.
I love how Donahue closed her article: "My message is this: millions of young people are watching. They are forming their personal and professional identities, based in part on what they see around them. The images they see now have lasting effects on their self-image, their views of how they should behave in relationships and in their work. So what should we tell them about those things?"
Exactly. How can we keep putting out crazy-fake, surgically-enhanced, heavily airbrushed images of women and expect our young girls (or their mothers for that matter) to have a healthy self esteem? Or any self esteem at all??
Here's a link to the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-donahue/nude-allure-is-pornograph_b_186636.html
April 16, 2009 - 12:22pmThis Comment
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