think you look a bit chunky in a photo?

[emmelinemay]

nevermind. Photoshop can fix it.

I knew photoshop was used a lot to tidy up edges, remove the odd bulge, take away blemishes, and generally make ordinary women feel inadequate my making other ordinary women look unrealistically beautiful.

But that's just scary.

Comments

[glamgothruthy.livejournal.com]

i've seen that before - i just dunno what to say.. but i'm sure there is a femminist/fattist rant in there somewhere...

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

i'm sure there is. ESPECIALLY with the title of the video - "turning a big fat chick into a tiny hot little model"

'big fat chicks' aren't hot? tiny is? al in the eye of the beholder mate, all in the eye.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Heh. According to a Jamaican guy at Strawberry Fair, I was hot because I was fat!

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Painters have been doing this sort of thing to (for) men and women for centuries, tho'. Didn't Henry VIII marry Anne Boleyn after seeing her painting, only to discover she looked nothing like that in person?

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

if you really can't see how that's a totally different thing, i can't even be arsed to argue with you

[obsessive-katy.livejournal.com]

It was Anne of Cleves, who he dubbed the 'Flanders Mare' because she looked like a horse in real life.

xx

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Given that she was (allegedly) already pregnant by the time he married her, I think he knew what she looked like! :-)