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Require Magazines to Print Disclaimers on Photoshopped Images
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    Sarah Menkedick
    Pittsburgh, PA, Mexico
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The computer program Adobe Photoshop is frequently used to modify images of models in order to make them appear much thinner than they actually are.  At times, the modifications have been so outrageous that they have led to protests, particularly against the fashion brand Ralph Lauren. 

These ubiquitous photoshopped images are presented as if they are real; women and girls who encounter these images are never told that the standards of beauty and the female bodies they see in magazines, on billboards and in advertisements have been altered and are in fact not representative of real women's bodies.

Women deserve to know that the images presented to them as beauty ideals are indeed fake, and that the thinness presented in many of these images would be unhealthy and unnattainable in real life.  Photoshopped images should carry disclaimers stating that they have been altered, in order to prevent even more unrealistic standards of thinness and beauty from taking hold in a society already plagued by serious eating disorders.

 

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Tell Advertisers and Magazines To Put Disclaimers on Photoshopped Images

Dear New York State Legislature,

The computer program Adobe Photoshop is frequently used to make models used in advertisements, cover photos and fashion spreads look much thinner than they actually are. This program exacerbates the already serious problem of unhealthy body image in the media, encouraging a dangerous obsession with thinness that has contributed to an epidemic of eating disorders in the U.S.

The images produced by Photoshop have become so extreme in their manipulation that they have lead to international outcry and protests. Women and girls are already bombarded with images of extreme thinness in the media and fashion industries, but Photoshop takes the problem to another level. Photoshopped images show models whose already slender bodies have been reduced to an unreal, dangerous, engineered level of thinness. The images Photoshop produces are completely false, yet no warning or disclaimer exists to alert women and girls to the fact that these images of beauty and thinness have been faked by a computer program.

Please demand that advertisers and magazines place disclaimers on Photoshopped images, warning women and girls that these images have been altered and do not represent real women's bodies. Women and girls deserve to know that the images they are being shown do not represent reality, and that it is physically dangerous and often impossible for them to aspire to the standards these images encourage.

Thank you for your time and consideration,

[Your name]

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