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A new photograph of Beyonce has sparked quite a bit of controversy. The picture is a promotional image in support of her new album, and something just doesn't seem right...Here is a photo of her that has not been retouched:Beyonce's skin color is clearly lightened a great deal in the promotional photo. A similar outcry occurred back in 2008 regarding a L'Oreal ad that Beyonce was featured in:In

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Check out this important video:

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Make-up ads featuring Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington have come under fire in the U.K. after parliament member Jo Swinson filed complaints with the U.K. Advertising Standards Authority regarding the unrealistic nature of the photoshopped images. Touchy subject: U.K. bans Roberts ad over airbrushing“We have to stop exposing impressionable children and teenagers to advertisements portraying

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American Medical Association Denounces PhotoshopThe American Medical Association recently released the following statement:"Such alterations can contribute to unrealistic expectations of appropriate body image — especially among impressionable children and adolescents." There are still people who will deny that these images have a deleterious psychological effect on viewers. But psychologists,

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'Effortless Perfection': Much Photoshopping Required "As individual women, it can be easy to wonder why we fall into the trap of trying to live up to an unattainable standard. It's something we absorb on an almost subconscious level. Deconstructing this month's Redbook magazine cover shows us just how manufactured the images of beauty we see really are....The side-by-side comparison reminds

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I have gotten a couple of negative reader comments lately, and I have debated whether to respond to them. For now, I will just tackle the negative comment I received today:in response to my "Say hello" entry:ugh, yes Jaslene is skinny. But, it ticks me off how you said America's Next Top Model is showing girls that this is the image of beauty. How dare you to say she is not beautiful. Skinny

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Anorexia : A Controversial Ad CampaignCheck out the link for a great article."An image of unique power, even though disturbing, can impact viewers in the way pages of text cannot. It has shock value and sometimes people need to be shocked into awareness, particularly when it comes to a ‘fashion’ disease that has been wreaking havoc in the lives of women. While anorexia also has a psychological

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Click Here to view the video discussing the No Anorexia billboard seen in Italy.A statement said: "Toscani [the photographer] has literally laid his subject bare, to show the reality of this sickness to all through this naked body, a sickness that in most cases is caused by the stereotypes imposed on women by the fashion world." (Billboard appeared during fashion week in Milan.)I think this

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Check out this article: Study: Sex Doesn't SellThis June, two University marketing professors are releasing a study that suggests sex doesn’t sell. The research, based on 200 college student interviews suggests that sex-obsessed advertising can actually backfire against marketers, triggering doubts about product quality and legitimacy.and:Beauty and the beholder: Why pretty faces don't always

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Anyone who regularly visits facebook.com may be familiar with this ad. I've been bothered by some American Apparel ads before, but haven't yet complained about the company on this website. Fortunately for me, I found a wonderful piece on American Apparel that perfectly captures what I originally aimed to articulate myself.Besides the fact that I don't like American Apparel, the ad caught my eye

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I complained about the following ad a while ago:I don't even know for sure what this ad is selling, but I suppose that would be the barely-there denim dress on the barely-there model who looks like she is being tied up. Is this image supposed to make a woman want to buy this dress? My question remains, why do people think this will help sell a product? If there is someone out there who knows

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The winner of "America's Next Top Model" has been chosen! Say hello to Jaslene Gonzalez:I figured since I discuss body image so much here, it was important to show these pictures. Every young girl watching this show has been told that Jaslene Gonzalez is the picture of beauty. The message this sends is terrible. She is so thin that she looks unhealthy and should under no circumstances be a

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This is a recent photograph featuring supermodel Bar Refaeli. I don't know what publication it is from, but I'd be curious to know.And in the news today: Starvation of the Spirit"Anorexia and bulimia kill, but the decay of the soul and mind and personality is the worst part. Beyond the magazine covers and Twiggy bodies lie damaged people, hoping for a new life."

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A lot of people seem to be confused over the new cover of Seventeen magazine. It says it is "Fergie" featured in the photo, but things just don't look right.Check out this website for comments from readers who can tell how much her face has been altered.In other advertising news, a recent milk campaign has been called out for "false and misleading" claims that drinking milk promotes weight

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Adobe Photoshop and similar programs can do amazing things when it comes to altering images. It's understandable that magazines, etc., want to touch-up celebrity images and make everything look as good as it can. But the art of the touch-up has been taken to new extremes as technology has advanced. Images are sometimes modified so much that the subject looks as if they have undergone plastic

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I had to comment on the whole Imus scandal, especially after it started turning into just what I wanted it to turn into. Last night as I casually walked by a waiting-room television, I noticed the topic of discussion on the news was Imus' racist/sexist comment and the connection to the way women are degraded in hip-hop music and videos. The topic of sexism in hip-hop subsequently arose twice

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It's about time that I backed up the content of this website with another scientific study. The research that has been done on the topics I discuss here serve as the foundation for my arguments. There is research being done every day on the effects of media images, so one just needs to turn to the abundance of data available to know that my purpose here is not merely to assert my opinion.Thin,

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In the past, I have posted a number of advertisements in which dead women or women in peril are used to sell something. Unfortunately, I keep coming across ads like this, in which a woman has been hurt or is about to be hurt. It's presented as something sexy, and/or it's presented as something humorous. Of course, it is never presented as something serious, as something worthy of empathy or

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Sexy or Sadistic? -- The Dolce & Gabbana gang-rape fantasy ad has been pulled.Love your Body -- This great website is also in the fight against sexist advertising. This is what they had to say about the D & G ad: This ad is beyond offensive, with a scene evoking a gang rape and reeking of violence against women. In an interview, NOW Foundation President Kim Gandy said, "It's in Esquire

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but not a surprise from Dolce & Gabbana. It's one of the worst ads I've come across.We can be glad that it caused a controversy. The company's remarks are as terrible as the image.

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"Dehumanization is a process by which members of a group of people assert the "inferiority" of another group through subtle or overt acts or statements. Dehumanization may be directed by an organization (such as a state) or may be the composite of individual sentiments and actions, as with some types of de facto racism. State-organized dehumanization has been directed against perceived racial or

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This is an ad from Virtus Communications, a company that specializes in brand identity development, graphic design, and web design. I have no idea what the image has to do with what they are trying to sell.I find this ad very disturbing. As in almost all ads including violence, the violence here is directed toward a woman. And, as usual, the woman is young and beautiful with a great figure.

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The above image is an ad for the following website:http://www.viraltags.com/The ad tells you to 'click on the clip,' and then redirects you to viraltags.com. Violence against women is not funny. Turning it into a cartoon-type joke does not make the issue any less serious, but it does imply that it is something we can laugh about and make light of. So you don't like Paris Hilton? That doesn't

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Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa - The Most Deadly Mental Illness"We live in a culture where we look at anorexically thin models and call that normal, call that attractive.... It's important for parents to point out all the ways that our culture gets women to be unhappy with themselves."The following are more examples of ultra-thin models on the runway. By choosing these women to be

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Fashion bosses agree to debate health issueandBanks scolds critics, says she's worth the weightTyra Banks: “I get so much mail from young girls who say, ‘I look up to you, you’re not as skinny as everyone else, I think you’re beautiful,’ ” she said. “So when they say that my body is ‘ugly’ and ‘disgusting’, what does that make those girls feel like?”some more positivity from Tyra Banks:Tyra

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"A recent poll by American Demographics magazine found that 61 percent of the respondents said 'sexual imagery' in a product advertisement would make them less likely to buy it, and one-third were downright offended by the whole idea. "Check out the following article:Does Sex Really Sell?

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Is it offensive to call them that? I find it offensive is that these "Bratz" dolls are being marketed to little girls. I find it offensive that parents are buying these dolls for their young (read: easily influenced) children.Barbie was bad enough in that she presented an idealized and unrealistic image of beauty, touting proportions that would cause her to topple over if she were a real woman.

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There is a trend in advertising, in particular with fashion ads, to depict women in trouble or being hurt. To make matters worse, these women are depicted as beautiful and sexy, seductive even. The imagery thus becomes a glamorized display of sexualized violence, in which the viewer is told that it is sexy for a woman to be hurt or in peril.Take a look at the following Louis Vuitton ad:Louis

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The images you see in magazines are not reality.example 1:Evolutionexample(s) 2:This website says it all. Click on the small images, then run your mouse over the image to see the before-and-afters.This is another good example.

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Boston Mayor complains about adA Great Article from MSNBC

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That's just cuz I wanted to start off with a strong point. It gets considerably more fun when we start to look at images of beauty. Models are chosen to represent the current ideal of beauty. We can go back in time and notice trends, like differences in models' weight, hair style, facial expression, even eye-brow shape! Not only are there models to tell us what "beautiful" looks like, but now

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Advertisements are everywhere. T.V. commercials (let's not forget product placement even within the programming!), billboards, radio ads, internet pop-ups... it's endless. And as with everything else in our culture, ads change with time. Many images we see on the side of the road today would never have been allowed in previous decades. Ads are taking on more adult themes, and we see

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