"She's fat."
"Yeah."
"She's skinny."
"Yeah."
This is the conversation I overheard between four preschool girls, as they observed their classmates on the playground. I didn't realize how young it starts, but keiki pay a lot of attention to the world around them. I suppose it's a survival trait, but I want my girls to survive childhood with their self esteem intact. I hope you can help me with some suggestions.
One thing I want to do is to show my daughters how artifical those images of ideal women are. They need to see the huge production that goes into crafting the perfect faces which haunt them from magazine covers. The casual wind-blown hair isn't that casual, and I've been searching for things which demonstrate that.
This link is interactive, but you need to wait a minute for "Click Here!" button to show on the right hand side:
http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouc...uch/index.html
I found a digital artist's portfolio to also be a good source of examples:
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/dig...i/bikini1.html
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/dig...e/blonde1.html
Here's a professional makeup school which likes to brag about the "magic" it performs:
http://www.ybmakeup.com/gallery.php?cat=gallery_bnf
I once saw this online documentary where they brought in school girls to observe digital artists manipulating photos. The girls had their pictures taken and witnessed their bodies being made more sexier. One of the girls broke down crying. I really wish I could find the link again, but it was years ago. By chance do any of you have a link to that one?
Makeup. Special lighting. Color "correction". Dozens of rolls of film spent just to capture one "perfect" photo, and then airbrushing the photo to make it "more perfect". Those are the things I want to show my girls. There's a war out there for their minds, and I want them to see the enemy's playbook.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. I still have a few years before it becomes a serious issue. I'd like to nip this one in the bud.
Regards,
MJ
P.S. I just found this article:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/135166
"Yeah."
"She's skinny."
"Yeah."
This is the conversation I overheard between four preschool girls, as they observed their classmates on the playground. I didn't realize how young it starts, but keiki pay a lot of attention to the world around them. I suppose it's a survival trait, but I want my girls to survive childhood with their self esteem intact. I hope you can help me with some suggestions.
One thing I want to do is to show my daughters how artifical those images of ideal women are. They need to see the huge production that goes into crafting the perfect faces which haunt them from magazine covers. The casual wind-blown hair isn't that casual, and I've been searching for things which demonstrate that.
This link is interactive, but you need to wait a minute for "Click Here!" button to show on the right hand side:
http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouc...uch/index.html
I found a digital artist's portfolio to also be a good source of examples:
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/dig...i/bikini1.html
http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/dig...e/blonde1.html
Here's a professional makeup school which likes to brag about the "magic" it performs:
http://www.ybmakeup.com/gallery.php?cat=gallery_bnf
I once saw this online documentary where they brought in school girls to observe digital artists manipulating photos. The girls had their pictures taken and witnessed their bodies being made more sexier. One of the girls broke down crying. I really wish I could find the link again, but it was years ago. By chance do any of you have a link to that one?
Makeup. Special lighting. Color "correction". Dozens of rolls of film spent just to capture one "perfect" photo, and then airbrushing the photo to make it "more perfect". Those are the things I want to show my girls. There's a war out there for their minds, and I want them to see the enemy's playbook.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. I still have a few years before it becomes a serious issue. I'd like to nip this one in the bud.
Regards,
MJ
P.S. I just found this article:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/135166
Redbook editor in chief Stacy Morrison defended the changes, telling the "Today" show, "In the end, they're not really photographs. They're images."
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