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Ad Images and the Effect on Girls' Self-Esteem - Your Thoughts?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 441701" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I'm not so sure if it's as much the Barbie doll thing as it is about all the movie stars and celebrities now who are so thin that they look like famine victims! Thing of it is, when Twiggy first came out, she was viewed as an oddity because of her extreme thinness. Now she'd blend right in with all the other 90-pound celebrities. Nobody who starves themselves to be that skinny could possibly be healthy. But if a normal girl compares herself to these people that she views as role models, she will see <em>herself</em> as the abnormal one. I follow Macy's on Facebook to keep up with the sales but when they showed a line of clothing obviously being marketed to very young girls on impossibly thin models, they caught a ton of flack on the comments.</p><p></p><p>And a lot of camera tricks go in to those print ads too. Not sure where I saw it, maybe the Dove site, but they had a speeded up video of the makeup artists and hair dressers turning a perfectly ordinary looking girl into what looks like a super model. Then when they were done with her, they took her photos and re-contoured her face, made her skin look flawless, whitened her eyes, and made her lips fuller and her eyes bigger. And it's very easy to s-t-r-e-t-c-h photographs to make the subject look even thinner. We used to do it in newspaper advertising all the time to make the picture fit the space - it's called proflexing. So all these models and celebrities that kids want to be like, they don't really exist either!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 441701, member: 1883"] I'm not so sure if it's as much the Barbie doll thing as it is about all the movie stars and celebrities now who are so thin that they look like famine victims! Thing of it is, when Twiggy first came out, she was viewed as an oddity because of her extreme thinness. Now she'd blend right in with all the other 90-pound celebrities. Nobody who starves themselves to be that skinny could possibly be healthy. But if a normal girl compares herself to these people that she views as role models, she will see [I]herself[/I] as the abnormal one. I follow Macy's on Facebook to keep up with the sales but when they showed a line of clothing obviously being marketed to very young girls on impossibly thin models, they caught a ton of flack on the comments. And a lot of camera tricks go in to those print ads too. Not sure where I saw it, maybe the Dove site, but they had a speeded up video of the makeup artists and hair dressers turning a perfectly ordinary looking girl into what looks like a super model. Then when they were done with her, they took her photos and re-contoured her face, made her skin look flawless, whitened her eyes, and made her lips fuller and her eyes bigger. And it's very easy to s-t-r-e-t-c-h photographs to make the subject look even thinner. We used to do it in newspaper advertising all the time to make the picture fit the space - it's called proflexing. So all these models and celebrities that kids want to be like, they don't really exist either! [/QUOTE]
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