Western women are strongly affected by the social requirement to be slender, even though naturally we come in all shapes and sizes. I am size 5 shoe, but I don’t require your feet to be the same size as mine, so why should we be expected to all have the same body shape and size? We live in a world where food and eating messages bombard us all day long - often in the same media that tell us to be thin.
Women in other countries are starting to feel this pressure too, as Western values are being introduced.
Dr Eyecandy points out that in France there are debates about requiring digitally tailored images to display the following warning: "Photograph retouched to modify the physical appearance of a person". French politicians who support this potential law claim that digitally enhanced images portraying unrealistic beauty are to blame for extensive body and self esteem issues in adolescents. And this leads to eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia as well as obesity.
Life is hard enough without trying to achieve the looks that the stars can even manage without airbrushing. So I am all for this new law. Let's get real.
Women in other countries are starting to feel this pressure too, as Western values are being introduced.
Dr Eyecandy points out that in France there are debates about requiring digitally tailored images to display the following warning: "Photograph retouched to modify the physical appearance of a person". French politicians who support this potential law claim that digitally enhanced images portraying unrealistic beauty are to blame for extensive body and self esteem issues in adolescents. And this leads to eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia as well as obesity.
Life is hard enough without trying to achieve the looks that the stars can even manage without airbrushing. So I am all for this new law. Let's get real.
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