A professor of mine sent me a fascinating article from the New York Times today. Perhaps even more fascinating than the text of the article, however, was an ad off to the side of the screen. After having taught my students a unit on advertising, the ideal, and bodies, I really am even more appalled that ads like this exist. I hope this is severe photoshopping, and that this woman's body does not actually look like this. It's just...not natural.
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So true Whitney. Things like this in today's pop culture society are reasons why I sometimes hope Mike and I never have a daughter. How do you get a 12 year old girl to realize that's not what is actually normal and beautiful? Shame on the advertisers for using stuff like this!
On a lighter note....Happy Easter! I hope all is well.
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