Image Manipulation

The last few years photoshop has been used a lot more in magazine publications to make women seem more attractive. As the cameraman in this video put it "99.9%" of photos in magazines are retouched to make the subject more attractive. I believe this is harmful to both women and men. For women, they are being pressured into trying to become the perfect looking person. It hurts their self esteem and confidence to see women that appear to be perfect in their looks. Some women strive to be the perfect looking women which can be harmful to one's physical and emotional state. For men, some, not nearly as many as women, fall into the same category as women as trying to construct a perfect body. The way it is most harmful to men is that they try and search for the perfect woman which does not exist. It leads to them being unsatisfied because there standards for physical beauty is too high. A potential solution would be if a magazine came out and publicly shared they were not going to use any photoshop in their photos. It would be more truthful of what beauty is in today's society. And hopefully if one magazine made this their policy than it would lead to other magazines changing their policy as well.