I remember awhile back someone posted every playboy centerfold. The pictures from the days before cosmetic surgery and crazy airbrushing were so much better. Because they were pictures of actual women. Why do people even like impossible standards of beauty?
Because they don't know any better! People think that all models really look like how they show on the magazine covers, without realizing that even the models (who are already starving themselves) have to be touched up to look that way. I mean, we *should* know better, we don't see people who look like that around us every day, but somehow so many people get taken in by media telling them that THAT is what's right and normal.
It's really disgusting. For one women (or men, but I pay far less attention to male models) aren't supposed to look like that. It's not even attractive. Perfection is not really pleasing to the eye. We need subtle imperfections to let us know that something is natural. Like I said, I was amazed at how much better looking the playboy centerfolds of old were. Because they looked like real women that you might even meet one day. A woman with the Venus DiMilo's body wouldn't get a modeling job today (I'm sure the arms don't help either). I wouldn't recognize most models away from a shoot. But I'm a weirdo who likes women who look natural and have human shapes. Because the female form is the most beautiful thing in the world.
Heh, had an amusing conversation this weekend where a chef friend of mine said that she thought her buff biceps were unattractive, and the only guy present at the time firmly shoved his foot into his mouth up to the calf by proudly proclaiming that it wasn't a woman's *arms* that he liked to check out.
I'd be interesting to see what the photographers/photoshoppers could do to people I know.
HAHAHAHAHA. You actually got me to lol at that story. I do look at a woman's arms, especially her upper arm/shoulder area. Women are supposed to be soft and feminine and curvy.
My kung fu brother Martin is a photographer and he showed me what just like 15-20 minutes in photoshop could do and I was impressed. He could make my skin look flawless, hair shinier, skin tone less pale. It was creepy.
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Date: 2008-12-02 04:45 pm (UTC)Why do people even like impossible standards of beauty?
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Date: 2008-12-02 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-02 05:05 pm (UTC)Like I said, I was amazed at how much better looking the playboy centerfolds of old were. Because they looked like real women that you might even meet one day. A woman with the Venus DiMilo's body wouldn't get a modeling job today (I'm sure the arms don't help either).
I wouldn't recognize most models away from a shoot.
But I'm a weirdo who likes women who look natural and have human shapes. Because the female form is the most beautiful thing in the world.
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Date: 2008-12-02 05:10 pm (UTC)I'd be interesting to see what the photographers/photoshoppers could do to people I know.
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Date: 2008-12-02 05:18 pm (UTC)I do look at a woman's arms, especially her upper arm/shoulder area. Women are supposed to be soft and feminine and curvy.
My kung fu brother Martin is a photographer and he showed me what just like 15-20 minutes in photoshop could do and I was impressed. He could make my skin look flawless, hair shinier, skin tone less pale. It was creepy.