The last two are the same link... just thought I'd mention it.
I saw the second and third one a few months ago, and it just pissed me the hell off. I used to argue that teenage girls should have to learn PhotoShop techniques in high school- sure, there's a good thing in learning a skill like graphics manipulation, but also... it would teach them in a non-pushy way just how manipulated and unrealistic and fucked-with everything they see in the media is.
I mean, sure, young boys could learn from that, too, but they aren't the ones having the same level of "you are what you look like-- and you should aspire to look like this" pushed onto them.
That said, I'll be showing my kids stuff like this as they get older and we can talk about it. I'm really careful of how I deal with the body image stuff in front of my kids... even though I'm on shakey ground with all that stuff personally, I don't want my sons growing up thinking that it's normal and acceptable for women to hate themselves and their bodies. I've dated enough dipshits who think it's perfectly acceptable for me to eat two pieces of lettuce while they wolf down a steak the size of my head... (I can think of two men who haven't been like that with me, actually) I don't want my sons becoming another two of those guys.
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I saw the second and third one a few months ago, and it just pissed me the hell off. I used to argue that teenage girls should have to learn PhotoShop techniques in high school- sure, there's a good thing in learning a skill like graphics manipulation, but also... it would teach them in a non-pushy way just how manipulated and unrealistic and fucked-with everything they see in the media is.
I mean, sure, young boys could learn from that, too, but they aren't the ones having the same level of "you are what you look like-- and you should aspire to look like this" pushed onto them.
That said, I'll be showing my kids stuff like this as they get older and we can talk about it. I'm really careful of how I deal with the body image stuff in front of my kids... even though I'm on shakey ground with all that stuff personally, I don't want my sons growing up thinking that it's normal and acceptable for women to hate themselves and their bodies. I've dated enough dipshits who think it's perfectly acceptable for me to eat two pieces of lettuce while they wolf down a steak the size of my head... (I can think of two men who haven't been like that with me, actually) I don't want my sons becoming another two of those guys.