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A girl in my 9yo’s best friend’s class is transgendered. The child—who was a boy—decided he really wanted to be a girl in third grade. The child’s parents came to class, along with a helper—and explained to the kids how he would now be a girl. The child chose a new name, and the teacher helped her…
- Right now it looks like all conservatives and opponents of marriage equality can do is try like shit to parse what the President said about it and make it seem like what he really meant to say was the opposite of what he said
- and that he doesn’t think gays and lesbians should marry
- and…
I think the main, horrifying thing about these airbrushed pictures being distributed, is there has been a lot of media hype calling this beautiful girl fat. It’s like, the media refuses to let her be proud of her body. They’ve even changed her face shape, making her almost unrecognisable. We always rant about how airbrushed photos affect us, but imagine how they must affect the people being airbrushed. Imagine feeling super confident and good about yourself after a photo shoot, and then seeing the end result and realising you weren’t good enough for the magazine. It must be crushing.
I remember, when my friend was practising photo shopping, she took a photo of my face and airbrushed it without my permission or even warning me. Personally, I found the un-airbrushed photo of myself more attractive, since it looked like me, but the airbrushed version was so disheartening. She’d changed the shape of my nose, elongated my face and taken out the scars by my eyes and the scar on my chest from my operation. She only did it as light hearted practice for her art exam, but it crushed me. She didn’t realise, and perhaps the photo-editors don’t realise, that by airbrushing out all the little imperfections on my face she made me feel like I wasn’t good enough. The little scars and freckles and the bump in my nose were all things that made me, me, and she took them away.
Similarly, by changing Jennifer Lawrence’s body, they’re telling her that no matter how successful she is, no matter how talented she is, she will not be good enough because of the things about her that make her who she is.
And I just find that sad.
Couldn’t have said it better.
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Just. Jesus fuck, stop it, she’s gorgeous, I’ve thought she was gorgeous since Cold Case. It breaks my heart that the majority of mainstream media, of society, are trying to tell her, and so many other beautiful, amazingly talented women that they’re not good enough. It makes me sick to my stomach. I hate it. I hate it I hate it I hate it. *beats fists of frustrated anger*
What really annoys me about this is actually the fact that they’ve airbrushed out all her (no doubt super-hard-earned) muscle tone. This also goes to criticism about her not being ‘skinny’ enough to play Katniss, as one of my favourite criticisms fo that school of thought argued that for Katniss to be a hunter, she actually has to have a stronger build, with thighs and glutes for running and climbing, core strength for pulling a bow (as evidenced by the fact that she has a tiny waist irl) and so on. Also that not all bodies react the same way to extreme hunger, and that nobody’s criticizing Gale for being perfectly Hollywood gym-toned in an environment where he probably couldn’t be getting enough calories to build that kind of physique.
So yeah, tldr: the un-shopped version of Jennifer Lawrence here has wonderfully toned arms and abs and glutes, and she looks amazing, and the shopped version makes her look the sickly kind of skinny that comes from doing no exercise and starving yourself. Which is valid if that’s your own personal life choice, but it’s obviously not Jennifer Lawrence’s, as she’s mentioned in multiple interviews, and making her look like that is just disrespectful.
Just going to reblog this (again I think) to point out that the (relatively) un-airbrushed image was the one used in GQ.
Just a reminder.
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It is rather unfortunate that answers cannot be reblogged. As Tumblr has been periodically breaking down Missing E, the option of the haphazard reblog option for them has completely disappeared. It’s unfortunate in this situation because I have to take a screenshot of this wonderful post by Marxisforbros in order to share it with my followers that do not follow him. Also, a note to those who don’t: you should be following Marxisforbros.
