Computer Algorithms Quantify How Much a Photo Has Been Retouched
Magazine images are so heavily retouched nowadays that the models hardly look human at all, with absurdly flawless skin and unrealistic body shapes that drive equally unrealistic expectations. It’s so unbelievable, and so potentially damaging to readers’ self-perception, that even the American Medical Association has condemned preposterous postproduction retouching.
Things weren’t this bad when we were growing up. They were bad, but the technology wasn’t as good, wasn’t as readily available to everyone, wasn’t this easy, wasn’t this effective. Every picture you see in a magazine now is touched up to hell (and the one’s that aren’t are only there to be scathed because they’re too fat/too thin/have stretchmarks/have cellulite). It’s something that you need to consider if you have children. Sure, you grew up with hot people on the covers of magazines. But they’re growing up with flawless impeccable God’s as their ideal.
(Source: fuckyeahfeminists, via nessfraserloves)
