Answer the following questions based on the reading, Should Photos Come with Warning Labels in 4-6 sentences and then respond to 2 of your peers for a total of 6 posts.
- Pick out one quote that was significant to you. Explain it and why it was significant.
- What biases did you have, for or against the subject, while reading this text? When did you become aware of it and did it hinder your evaluating the text in an objective way?
- What ideas were you unfamiliar with from the text and how did you approach that information?
- Pose one question you have about the text.
- Attempt to answer someone else's question.
1. The quote that I found significant was the one that says “resist the sexist assumption that beauty is a commodity women are obliged to provide to men. Well, I can tell you that many people think that beauty is bought but, in the other hand beauty is within the person it’s not a sell thing that you can just buy from a magazine or T.V. Although many men think that the best women and real beauty is in commercials were you see the best women you could think of but, that’s just selling products and it’s easy to them put women in their to get people to buy and think beauty is only a purchased product well their wrong women come in different ways that makes them beautiful like any women in the T.V. It’s how you like that makes it seem that they’re the only ones good but its artificial they get paid to get the best women and work and dress good.
ReplyDelete1.The quote i chose was "It is commonplace that women are pressured to meet an artificial standard of beauty." This means that women feel obligated to make themselves look better. They do this so that they can look as appealing as the artificial standard. I believe this is significant because it causes stress in many women trying to look like something that is unobtainable.
ReplyDelete1. “It is commonplace that women are pressured to meet artificial standard of beauty. “ This quote was significant to me because what it says it’s true. Most of the people that see the photos try to be like the picture. The ads also give false expectations to men of how women look. Some woman doesn’t eat well in order to have the same figure of the ads.
ReplyDelete1. 1. A quote that really stood out to me was “Because that beauty cannot be obtained via the proffered merchandise but only through a tricked-out photo, this is a case of false advertising.” This quote implies that the digitally altered images of models should be construed as false advertising, in the sense that the ad is trying to portray this product to result in the buyer looking like the model in the picture. Because this image is digitally altered and unobtainable by even the most beautiful models, the ad is representing a false sense of hope, and when the buyer isn’t satisfied with how he or she looks, they will ask themselves “well how come I don’t look like the model in the picture” and go on to drastic measures, which would result in eating disorders or surgeries to be able to achieve a look that isn’t even real.
ReplyDelete1. “The damage done to women by an unceasing flow of such images, citing rising rates of cosmetic surgery and eating disorders and the anxiety of women constantly judged on their appearance.” – Jo Swinson, a member of Paliament
ReplyDeleteThe reason why this quote was significant to me was becasuse what Jo Swinson is referring to is the after affects of these “overly perfected and unrealistic images.” He makes a great point by stating this and here is the reason why. If you’re a model and you need to have photoshop images to make you look better, it’s great for the company but what about the model? How do you think they feel knoing that they need some editing on their pictures? This is why a lot of models consider cosmetic surgery just so they don’t have to continue on with the electronically altered images. Furthermore, let’s say you’re an oversized model but have a rare pulchritude, they made need to edit your “fat” to make you look better. This is a reason that makes a lot of girls these day start having eating disorders and always stress how fat they are. Overall, I agree with Jo Swinson on this quote.
Now a days the majority of the men want a women like the ones they see on T.V, or a magazine model.“ It is commonplace that women are pressured to meet an artificial standard of beauty. These ads affect men too, giving them false expectation of how women look.” Men see beautiful women on ads and now they want their wife to look like them. The frame is not obtainable since It is tricked out and made to look the way it looks. The men arent giving in enough support for the woen if they look bad then they look bad that should be it everyone has bad day but to expect your wife to look like she is modeling everyday can actualy harm the realtionships. This is important because not even the professionals that we think are beautiful can obtain that structure. Obviously they are not ugly but those ads need to get real.
ReplyDelete1. The quote that was significant to me was, “Foes see such images as harming women by promoting a standard of beauty so false that it can be achieved solely by manipulating a photograph of an already slender model.”
ReplyDeleteWhat the quote means is that women are being manipulated into thinking that they can easily look like the models in the ad without realizing that the photographs are being digitally manipulated. This was significant to me because it is wrong to provide false advertisement and not be aware of the damage that can be caused to the viewers by simply following the ads. False advertisements can lead viewers to do drastic things to themselves because companies make them believe that they can look like the models in the ad when those photographs have been manipulated.
1. “Use of this product will not win you the love of magnificant women, unless they drink the beer. And plenty of it.” The qoute is an example of an advertisment trying to convience the audience in how beer is good for oneself. Although is not just only beer that does this advertisment but other product as well. The company will try to sell any product by making you become someone else and better. It is signfifcant because I have seen it myself on commercials and tell myself that it’s not true and how some people actually fall for their advertisment. The company is trying to sell the product by convincing the audience how it will benefit you.
ReplyDelete2.I agreed that the ads also affect men. I believed strongly that some men have false expectation of a women that they would find appealing. This is because of all the ads and commercials they see on the televison . I became aware of this many years ago, when all I would see some commercials on women’s makeup and what not. This didn’t hinder my evaluating of the text because I feel now the same way I felt before.
ReplyDeleteThe quote I picked was “the damage done to women by an unceasing flow of such images, citing rising rates of cosmetic surgery and eating disorders and the anxiety of women constantly judged on their appearance” said by Jo Swinson . I think that it is true becaus all those ads where all we see is slender models sometimes makes you obssesed to be like them. Some woman think that’s like the body you have to have. That obssesion has made many woman suffer from eating disorders like bulemia or anorexia. Many have even died in an operation room trying to get a cosmetic surgery done. Also they have low self esteem because when they look in the mirror they don’t see the body that the model in the ad has. I think the companies should put all kind of women in their ads.
ReplyDelete2. Firstly, the bias that I got when reading this passage was interesting to find an article that states truth on how people spend time selling products in T.V for people to buy and how easy some people actually buy it. So like you can see I am against it on how they sell things people already got I know that is business and that’s the way they survive but at cost of what of the peoples health and stress, perfection. What is their point on selling things people don’t need living in a time of a bad economy. Spending millions of money on commercials that we don’t need why not spend it on helping the community and hospitals that really need it. Well I became aware as soon as I read the first line of the passage and I knew what they tried to get to me. So this did change my train of thought toward the text and well always be against it.
ReplyDelete2.I do agree with, “It is a commonplace that women are pressured to meet an artificial standard of beauty.” Yes it is true that women feel pressured to meet a standard of beauty, but the reason for that is because the ads in magazines, tv, and everywhere make them feel pressured. Women see these beautiful and slender women in ads and feel pressured into looking like that because they see possibilities of being able to make themselves appear that way as well as the models because they are not aware that the photographs they see in ads or on tv have been digitally fixed into looking like the perfect image. The reason women have low self-esteem is because of what they see on tv and on ads.
ReplyDelete1- “There is the counterargument that fashion ads are inherently false: preternaturally beautiful models are worked over by makeup artist and hair stylists, illuminated by lighting designers and shot by sophisticated photographers”. I found this quote true because some models need a lot of help from the makeup artist and photographer. Like some models that gain some pounds so the photographers have to work on their picture for them to look like they were before. I found it significant because I saw in TV how some models are ugly without makeup on, but after but after their makeup and hair are done their look like another person. I found this quote really true not in all models but in the majority.
ReplyDelete“It is a commonplace that women are pressured to meet an artificial standard of beuty” this quote is signifacant to me because it’s true. Most women have this idea that they should look like the models they see on ads. Those models, could make any woman feel uncomfertable with themselves. It would always cross a women’s mind of why can’t I look like that. Although women know it”s just a standard beuty.Therefore, I totally agree with this idea of women feeling pressured by the models they see on ads. What made me realize that I’m forward to this argument was when I read “In such a context, where can we draw the line on deceit? Here’s where: with the electronic manipulation of a photograph”. Not only do this women get surgery and under the right lightning but the photo is manipulated afterwards, so that it could look even better.What I don’t understand is why do when stress out so much because of the standard beuty if we all know it’s fake? What mostly confuses me is why do women try to actually reach something that’s unobtainable?
ReplyDelete“Overly perfect and unrealastic images”, this quote to me stood apart from all the other quotes that I saw.All of the ads nowdays try to promote their product by doing exaclty that.Creating unrealistic images and annoucement that people know they will probably never get to achieve but are still amazed by the promotion that half of the public ends up buying into it.
ReplyDeleteI had many biases for this text as I was reading into it.the public should be allowed to know things like additives and presevations .a lot of the public already is familiar with what looks natural with what looks fake,why shouldn’t we be allowed to know the whole truth instead of having us wonder what isnt.
ReplyDeleteI thaught personaly that the issue was something right in front of our face that most of us didn’t even care about. When going into detail you can see the harm that can be done to people with false ideas. Manipulating photos of women that are already skinny and have a good frame to make them look even better only makes other women in the outside world of the industry want to look even better. Maybe making them want plastic surgery. All for the fact that they want to look beautiful like those models because men like them. Women arent obligated to do anything of such sort besides be themselves, with ads planting the false ideas of how to look can damage some.
ReplyDeleteI didnt know people really thought about this kind of things .To me and ad is just that an ad a buisness hoping that somebody out their will be intrested in what they came up with to show of their product.Everything that has to do with the entertaiment buisness in some type of way is fake .its a way of people showing of their talent and imagination.I don’t see why people put so much thought and argument into something that is simple to understand.
ReplyDeleteIf the labeling law was enforce wouldn’t that in some type of way take away the authors freedom of expression?
ReplyDelete1) “Rules on food-labeling let consumers know the origins of the contents and the presence of things like additives and preservatives,” she said. What’s wrong with “informing them when photographs have also been modified from their original form?” -Representative Valérie Boyer
ReplyDeleteThe given quote explains that if food labels can let consumers know the origins of the content and the presence of things like additives and preservatives, than the same should go for pictures in which have been modified. A certain food that might cause an allergic reaction should show where it came from and the exact ingredients, same being a picture in which may have been modified so that if the illusion, or the image, begins to start commotion, the location and the person who took it is known. Since the beginning of photographs there has always been little stir ups about the images and what the image may or may not present. Reason for the belief that a person who wishes to present any such image be held accountable for what they wish to send as a message, through the given image.
The quote I found significant was the one that says “It is commonplace that woman are pressured to meet an artificial standard of beauty.” Woman often get brainwashed by ads on how beauty is suppose to look on a woman but everyone knows that the real beauty is within and how you take care of yourself. Woman become obsessed with the ideal of beauty products that makes them think they need to have it in order to look as beautiful as the women on TV ads. They become so accustomed to this that when they look at themselves in the mirror under all the makeup and products we throw on ourselves, they feel disgusted because of all the pressure and brainwash that there is a certain way to look good or better than what u see in the mirror
ReplyDelete3.I was unfamiliar with the arbitrary limits we set all the time. The fact that there is a 55-mile-an-hour speed limit but noone really follows that exact speed, as a comparison to fake models. I thought it was interesting because I never thought of the speed limit as being fake because I never considered it. Now I have a good concept of what it means and a better understanding of it.
ReplyDelete2.At the start of reading this article I was convinced that a photograph is solely a photograph and perhaps they were taking the issue of digitally altered images, a little too far. I continued reading the article and got to the part where they said “Now technology makes that standard unobtainable even by professional beauties.” My mind started to change. When companies like Ralph Lauren have to go as far as to digitally alter and image to sell a product, it shows how unsatisfied they are with even the most beautiful women. What they are basically saying is that the natural beauty of women isn’t good enough to sell their product, so they have professional make-up artist and hairstylist along with lighting designers to snap a picture of women wearing their product where even the photographer is a professional. And as if that weren’t enough, now they have to digitally alter the image to present an unrealistic and overly perfected version of woman wearing their product.
ReplyDelete1.”Foes see such images as harming woman by promoting a standard of beauty so false that it can b achieved solely by manipulating a photograph of an already slender model”. These photographs do harm women, because they see these pictures and start judging their appearance. Also they get so unsure about them self’s that they start having eating disorders, or can lead them to cosmetic surgery. Those are some ways foes see these images harming women by the standard they are setting
ReplyDelete4.Why must most modeling agencies have very thin, tall “beautiful” women criteria to enter?
ReplyDelete2. The biases I haveunderstood is why some women are obssessed in how they look to others and why beauty is imporant to them. Not only does it effect women but men as well. It also explains why they buy so many cosmitic supply or get themselves surgery to look abit younger or attractive. I’ve became award of it when there would be some women saying they want to be just like the girls from the ad but it did not hinder me. Reason why it doesn’t hinder me is because I am who I am and others should respect it. Everyone is different and not everyone is perfect and human beings should not critizies others for how they look and if they do critize to keep it to themselves. Some people can take it personal that even if there is no results they can commit suicide.
ReplyDelete2. While reading the text I agreed with having these electronically altered images banned or at least be labeled. They should be banned because it effects the way women see them self. Also its false advertising, because the beauty cannot be obtained by the merchandise but by a tricked-out photo. So in that case the models beauty is the direct result that the product is meant to achieve.
ReplyDeleteI was unfamiliar with all the ideas of the text. I knew photos were tricked out and made to look the way they look, but I never really thought of the consequences until today. The information was interesting many subjects can be brought up about false advertisement. Personally I never care for advertisement until now I had very little care about how people advertise products.
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ReplyDeleteThe quote that was significant to me was, “Overly perfected and unrealistic images.” This is significant to me because they are promoting a standard of beauty so false. Some women do cosmetic surgery to increase the size of their body. People can tell when is a natural body or not. People can see what part of the body they increased. I think, by doing surgery, they can damage their body and they can get eating disorders. Many women had died by doing a lot of cosmetic surgery. Women’s are pressured to meet an artificial standard of beauty. This is not correct by giving men’s false expectations of how women look.
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2- I agree in the part that they said all models look perfect for us but that affects women and men. They affect women because each woman now want to look like models because since we were little all the actresses, models and singers look perfect so we think we have to look like that so we can be beautiful . They affect men because the majority of them wish to have a woman that look just like a model. This didn’t hinder me because I think in the same way I did before reading the text.
ReplyDelete3.I was unfamiliar with the idea that “beauty is a commodity women are obliged to provide to men.” This statement is a ridiculous assumption created to make women seem like they have even lower self-esteem. Women do not see beauty as a commodity that they are obliged to provide men, they see beauty as an image in ads used to make themselves feel better. These ads make women think that if they look like that then they can have everything they want, which is not true because beauty is not everything. If women want to change their appearance to what they see in ads it is because they want to. It is not because they need to provide it for men, but because it is what will make them happy.
ReplyDelete2. The biast I have is that all electronically altered images should come with warning labels. Therefore, I agree with the author of this article. I feel like there really isn’t anything wrong with photoshop images but just don’t make it seem like it’s natural beauty when it really isn’t. In reality, we all know that it takes a lot for an image to seem “overly perfected and unrealistic.” That takes a lot of editing to make a picture or anythning of that nature come to life. I don’t believe that “models are worked over by makeup artists and hair stylists.” I mean don’t get me wrong, they have a lot to do with how the model looks on set but that’s before the picture is taking. I’m talking about after the picture has captured, there’s a lot of editing and it’s not just the model they “fix up” but also the background so the model stands out. Moreover, this does not come from “illuminated lighting designers and sophistacated photographers.”
ReplyDeleteI agree that men are affected by this standard beuty to. however I strongly believe that they are affected because they want to be just like women we all let it get to us.
ReplyDelete1.The qoute that was significant to me was ‘’Rules on food-labeling let consumers know the origins of the contents and the presence of things like additives and preservatives,’’ said valerie Boyer,( Pg. 1 paragraph 4). I agree, whats wrong with doing the same when it comes to photos? It informs the media when photographs have also been modified from their natural beauty and original form.
ReplyDelete1. The 21st century that we currently are living in is infested with the media, the news, movies,gossip in magazines, basically every where effected the views of one another.“ It is commonplace that women are pressured to meet an artificial standard of beauty. These ads affect men too, giving them false expectation of how women look.” Many men as women want the finest mate possible. A mate as good looking as actresses, profession models, etc. It pressure people to meet standards probably even lowering their self-esteem!
ReplyDelete2.The biasis that I have for the text is defenitly for the subject.Photos should come with warning labels on manipulated images. Such images can harm women by promoting this standard beauty that is false. Because your taking a photo of an already slender model and making her appear more slender then what she already is,or adding more of what she naturally has.This so called beauty is a commodity that women might feel obligated to provide to men, and themselves. Lowering there self-esteems. Electronically altered images should not be banned but defenitly have warning labels, that way no one gets harmed either the own model and women in general.
ReplyDelete3.I was unfamiliar with the model in the ad, Flippa Hamilton ,which was fired last week from the company. She lost her job because the company thought she had grown too fat. It didn’t make sense to me how Polo Ralph Lauren apologized for the photo and tried to suppress dissemination of the image and after failing to do so he fires this model.I felt as if he took his fustrations off on her from failing to do this task. But I then approached it with the matter of fact that this is the false image that the media has of women because of electronically altered images. That never came with warning labels.
ReplyDeleteI had many biases regarding this text. At first I thought the article was going to be basically about ads but after reading more I realized it was talking about how the ads give people a false point of view. Both governments are actually worried about how many people especially women are being pressured by these false ads. They are trying to stop the image of the “perfect women/men” being shown in ads. I agree that the companies should put labels stating that the models that appear aren’t as perfect as they look in the picture. This way people won’t get obsessed trying to look like the model. There should be another way to promote the product not only by using “perfect” models. No one in the world is perfect.
ReplyDelete4.Why make out images in ads to appear as the perfect appearance that one must reach, knowing that it can easily affect the self-esteem of a viewer?
ReplyDeleteThe ideas that I wasn’t related to where the ones about the government trying to ban or put warning labels on the ads and about how the model Filippa Hamilton got fired because she gained weight. Doesn’t the company think on her health? I mean being 5’10’’ and weighing 120 pounds is too skinny in my opinion. I measure approximately the same as her and I can’t imagine myself with that weight. With all those ads is why many women have so low self esteem and suffer from depression and stress. They stress their selves too much trying to be like the perfect women so the men will pay attention to them.
ReplyDeleteResponse to Natalimoranc1214: I don’t believe it has anything to do with freedom of expression. I think it has to do with the right to not lie to everyone. It would also be false advertisement.
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2) As for the biases in which I had for the given subject, I stand by the belief that a person shall and should be held accountable for the meaning of an image, or images, in which they wish to, come forth with. Knowing that images can and have been altered for whatever reasons, has been known to me since the time of new computers with photography applications. Knowing that changes can be made is truly something to feel discomfort because for many, images truly can be worth one thousand words, and because of this people can and will believe that the given image may relate to them. A person will judge themselves and believe more in what they can see than what they hear in words.
ReplyDeleteResponse to guiselle: ? I believe they make show these images to the viewer not to exactly hurt the viewers feelings but to make them strive to be something better. In this case the artificial people they would be watching.
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2.As I was reading the text that caught my attention the most was about men giving them false expectations of how women look. I agree strongly with this statement. It is true most men as well as woman are brainwashed by ads on how “real beauty” is suppose to look like. Of course men love the ideal of the kind of beauty they see on these ads. Therefore we women see that the only way to impress men is to look like the women on TV. Woman often try to look like these models they see on commercials but what they don’t realize is the photographers make these woman look all perfect and flawless fixing their imperfections. In reality nobody is perfect everyone has their flaws and imperfect bodies and what not.
ReplyDeleteI wonder who said that the perfect women had to be the way the model is pictured in the ad?
ReplyDeleteDo you think ads using electronically altered images be banned?Or does it make it okay if it comes with warning label?
ReplyDelete3- I was unfamiliar in the part where they were talking about the warnings like in the second page paragraph 6.I get it after re-read the text again, like when they said that those warnings are ineffectual to us. They trying to say that we are watching ads not even knowing it can cause us problem we just see the good things in the ads. I think that’s true because a lot of people just see the ad then they go and buy the thing they saw, and they don’t even know what can that cause them.
ReplyDeleteTo matenco: The person who said that all women are supposed to look like models was someone that was obviously obsessed with self appearance and was not happy with their own appearance. Therefore, they did not want anyone to be happy with the way the look.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that a company such as, Polo Ralph Lauren, would fire a women based solely on her weight was something I was unfamiliar with. I mean I was aware that they had to meet a certain kind of criteria to be models, but to fire a woman because she is a size 4, 120 pounds, and 5-foot-10 is beyond ridiculous. What kind of expectation are they really trying to get across? That a woman is no longer worthy of representing them, because she gained a slight bit of weight? The message they’re sending with that is telling women that they need to be extremely slim to be beautiful. So now when Filippa Hamilton, the woman that got fired from Ralph Lauren, develops an eating disorder or has to go to counseling due to her low self esteem, it was all because she was apparently not good enough to represent their company.
ReplyDelete1. “It is commonplace that women are pressured to meet an artificial standard of beauty,” the writer is obviously pointing out that models in such industry are not showing their natural look, but its part of the job. If one wants to join the field of modeling they should know there are certain requirements to qualify. Just like any other professional career.
ReplyDelete2. “Ads affect men too, giving them false expectations of how women look,” after reading this quote it completely changed my point of view, therefore I am against it. I’m aware of the procedures these models got to go through in every shoot to make them perfect. Yes admit these photos have some men fantasying. This doesn’t mean this change my opinion towards every woman and that they have to be looking too skinny with their chest bone almost showing. In general I know that every woman doesn’t have the similarities to the ones in these images. So putting warning labels is going to give me the true expectations of women, especially in looks? Warning labels are just simply warning people of actions. It’s not like people are not going to do what’s being warned. For example click it or ticket, smoke free, safe sex, or don’t drink and drive. These are examples what people are being warned about every day and guess what? People still do it.
3. I wasn’t really familiar of the reason why the company Polo Ralph Lauren fired the model Filippa Hamilton. Over her weight? Are you serious? Such a franchise known around the world for their fragrances, clothes, and accessories. I strongly believe there was other ways to handle the situation so that she could keep her job. The company should’ve given her time at least a month to lose the weight. But to get fired like that because she has grown too fat. That wasn’t very professional of the company. Wow! That’s something that she could put on her resume for next job.
Response to guiselle..I don't think they care about the persons selfesteem as much as what there investing in the photo. if that was the case all models will be photgraphed by there natural beauty.Sadly the media has a fake image of what is beauty.So they follow the media and continue to make out images in ads to appear as the perfect appearance that one must reach.Not caring about ones self esteem but on the investment there going to make.
ReplyDeleteAnswer to Guiselle: I think that the company doesn’t take a minute to stop and think about what women are going to feel. They just do the ad too sell their product. Knowing that many women are already obsessed with trying to be “perfect” it’s easier for them to get them by putting up these ads. When in reality they are hurting them more.
ReplyDeleteWhy did the ads adjust their models’ pictures so much? They can just show how they really are (natural, that’s the real beauty)…
ReplyDelete4. Don’t you think warning labels would cost more money to the company that is providing these images? What if they have budget on photo shoots and they can only add certain amount of details?
ReplyDeleteAnswer to Narine: You know I wonder the same thing. Why? Sometimes I have thought that society has to do a lot with it. But who knows who decided to picture the “perfect” women and men.
ReplyDelete4.If you were CEO of your’ own women’s clothing line, would you take the same procedures taken by companies like Ralph Lauren to stay ahead of the competition, or would you risk losing a significant amount of money because your advertising realistic models to wear your product, and thus possibly resulting in the failure of your company in the long run?
ReplyDeleteRespond to aabreu:i totlly agree with you natural beauty.
ReplyDeleteRespond to Guiselle: yes your right someone tht didnt like how they look decided to create the "perfect" person.
3. I was unfamiliar with the statement “beauty is a commodity women are obliged to provide to men.” This idea is not entirely true. Women don’t buy these products to make themselves look good to impress men. They do it to make themselves feel good or better about themselves. That statement is just uncalled for. It just makes women look like they have an even lower self-esteem.
ReplyDeleteAnswer to Freddie: I would put realistic models advertising the clothes. Lets be realistic there arent that many people with the body of a model. I would put all kind of bodies in the advertisement.
ReplyDeleteresponse to natalimoranc1214: i don't think it takes the authors freedom of expression the author still has his freedom of expression by using this electronically altered image.It's just letting the media know the truth and not be caught up by something thats fake.
ReplyDeleteRespond to Guiselle: I don’t think they care about what people feel, they just want to sale their products no matter what.
ReplyDelete3) “Beauty cannot be obtained via the proffered merchandise but only through a tricked-out photo” is something very realistic in the photography industry, which is something that should upset those who believe in honesty. People see happiness in things that shouldn’t really be seen as an alternative from their negative life styles, in images. People should be smarter than the people who present such false images by coming forth with competitive images that challenge and demonstrate the true opinion of those who are given the images. True beauty should be trueness in a person, not something in a person that is known for being obviously negative.
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ReplyDeleteI believe the ads adjust their pictures so much to stay on top of the competition because although morally wrong, sex does sell. A beautiful woman sells a lot more because it targets both genders. To women, it has them thinking that is what beauty is and in order to achieve it one must buy the product being advertised. To men, it makes us think that if we buy what is being advertised then we will have beautiful women surrounding and adoring us. If you put a gorgeous woman next to anything, even a can of beans, men are more likely to buy it just because of the gorgeous women on the advertisement. Just how if you put a friendly colorful animal on a cereal box kids are going to be attracted to the character on the box.
Respond to Manteco: I don’t know who said that, but I think we should be happy the way we are because if you don’t love yourself no one will.
ReplyDelete1-These ads affect men too, giving them false expectatins of how women look. this quote was significant to me, and I agree with the author that these ads affect men too by creating a perfect women in their minds. In reality there is not perfect women or perfect body. that is only for the commercial and in ads.
ReplyDelete4) Why is it that false images leave a person to question themselves on whether their own image is something to be proud of?
ReplyDelete2-I wasn't really aware of how big of an issue is the fact that companies have to lie to people in these commercials and create a false idea just to make us buy their produts.
ReplyDelete5. In response to Stephanie's question:i think it would be ok if it came with a warning label. At least we would know that there isn't such thing as the perfect appearance.So people don't stress too much over it.
ReplyDelete4. I don't really have a question because they're all basically related to what everyone posted up but i'd have to agree with the question of "Should ads using electronically altered images be banned? Or should photos come with warning labels?"
ReplyDelete3-I was very impressed by the fact that companies would fire a model and call her fat, when her size is 4, 120 pounds on a 5-foot-10 frame.I also think that these people from these companies are very unsensitive and rude, by treating the model like that.
ReplyDelete3. From the text I was unfamiliar in why advertisement does harm to others especially women. There are times when a woman might want to look like the girl in the ad or is told that she is not attractive looking, and others just want to look just as perfect as they do. Although these models are not perfect as they seem, instead they are being edit by technology to make them look beautiful. I approached to that information, because further more into the reading it also made sense why the women in the advertisement look so perfect without any problems in their body or face.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I do to identify when their lying or being fake.
ReplyDelete4. Do men and women really want the looks from a girl who's "perfect" from advertisment or a person who is real without any edit from technology?
ReplyDeleteMy response to Matenco - Tabolids are pretty much to blame for becuase when they critize majority of them say every women wants to be her, which is entirely false. Everyone should be independent with their own looks and not follow what others say.
ReplyDelete1-Quote:"the damage done to women by an unceasing flow of such imaages, citing rising of cosmetic surgery and eating disorders and the anxiety of women constantly judged on their face."In this quote you can appreciate how women obsessed with perfect beauty can undergo to dangerouscosmetic surgeries and do rigorous diets, this can lead them to eating disoders and can even harm their health. In part, all this is due to ads that promote a standar beauty that only can be possible by manipulating photos of gorgeous women.
ReplyDelete2-I agree with the part of the text that says "These ads affect men too, giving them false expectations of how women look." I say this because most men think that a good woman, the ones indicated to get married with, has to look like those models that they see on almost every single ad. This text didn't hinder how I think because I still thinking as I used to before I read it. What I really believe is that when anyone is going to choose a person to be his or her partner, that person doesn't have to look perfect. You shoukd pay more attention to the other person's feelings which are the most important aspects, details or qualities of anybody.
ReplyDelete5-My response to Quiselle: Ad-makers don't think too much about how their ads will affect the self esteem of any viewer. What it really matters to them is how much money they are going to make from these ads.
ReplyDelete3-I was unfamiliar with the idea that "Last week the company fired the model in the ad, Filippa Hamilton. She says she lost her job because the company thought she had grown too fat."This is something ridiculous, firing a person because he or she gained some weigth. Instead of blaming this model they should acept a big part of this blame because before this photo was publicized on the Web I am pretty sure that all companies have a group of experts verifying any imperfection or mistake on the company's work. It's esier too blame somebody else for your failure.
ReplyDelete3. I wasn’t familiar when the author started the article off by describing a model with “hips narrower than her head – so cartoonish, so grotesque, so right for Halloween.” But as I kept reading I could tell that he was describing the model as heinous. Why would he be talking about a model like that? That’s what I thought to myself. Furthermore, as I kept reading the author talks about the latest focus and criticism that’s been going on about “digitally altered fashion spread.” He continues on by basically saying pictures like that are harming some of the women by putting such images out there. Therefore, I could see the visual comparison the author is trying to make even though I was confused at first.
ReplyDelete4. When the author states, “because that beauty cannot be obtained via the proffered merchandise but only through a tricked-out photo, this is a case of false advertising,” what is he trying to conclude?
ReplyDelete5. In resonse to yecenia: There is nothing you can do to identify whether it’s fake or not unless whatever that's being advertised comes with warning labels. If it doesn’t come with any warning labels, then how could anybody tell if that is someone’s real beauty. This is why I don’t have anything wrong with editing pictures using photoshop but just let the audience know that the picture was electronically altered. The easiest way of doing that is simply by using warning labels.
ReplyDelete3)The ideas that I was unfamiliar with was the one that said that digitally altered images started in japan.Its an amazing fact to know cause people today if asked couldn't know really but, it is good to be informed from the true facts. So this phrase I was unfamiliar with completely it got my attention due to the fact I thought it originated here in American. This is truly an important fact of the story cause it tells you really were they got an idea into altering an image. Why I ask how could people come up with such outstanding idea to manipulate the image.
ReplyDelete4) Why is that people spend time perfecting pictures and modified them when if they want perfection they should get a robot?
ReplyDelete4)What is perfection when not even the people who want magic to happen are not perfect?
ReplyDelete"overly perfected and unrealistic images" that to me is a very intresting quote from this passage.All of the ads nowdays try to promote thier material by doing excaclty that.creating the impossible to glamour up thier product.
ReplyDeleteI had many biases for this text when i was reading over it.the public should be allowed to know things like additives and presevatives from what we see.Most of the public already is familiar with what is right with what we could tell is fake, why shouldnt we be allowed to know the whole truth instead of second guessing ourselves and wondering .
ReplyDeletethere was alot of information from the passage we read that i was unaware of.in my opinion i could really care less about this subject ,putting warnings on labels just takes the exciment of somebody works that used thier full imagination just to come up with something that had a reaction to us.i didnt know that just from one ad people would go craxy and demand to know the meaning behind it and what was used to make it that way.This passage just made me relize how some people could make something so innocent into the complete opposite
ReplyDeleteif the labeling law was put in effect wouldnt that take away freedom of expression in some type of way?
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