Sound Off: A Note on Body Image
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on this blog on January 3rd, 2011. I am republishing it because I think it's a message that bears repeating. I t has been lightly edited for style and grammar. Read some of the subsequent writing I've done on body image in the following posts: Changing the Conversation: The Dove "Real Beauty" Campaign and the Debate on "Real" Women Changing the Conversation Pt. 2: The Dove "Real Beauty" Sketches via inside thought Makes you cringe a little doesn't it? When I first saw this photo in December, it honestly just made me sad. Sad for this woman, sad for myself, and sad for the industry that makes this kind of thinking so ubiquitous. The sad fact is that millions of women feel this way about themselves because of the severely restricted standard of beauty that is perpetuated within the fashion industry. I spent the last two weeks of the semester writing two different papers on digital manipulat...
