Western women are very strongly affected by the social requirement to be slender, even though naturally we come in all shapes and sizes, and we live in a world where food and eating messages bombard us all day long. Call that mixed signals or what. And women in other countries where Western values are being introduced are starting to feel this pressure too.
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".
Politicians who support the law claim 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 only manage with airbrushing.
So I am all for it. Let's get real.
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