And the cruelty of expectations. Bro, please look at these with the girls. X, you guys too.
Speaking as someone who LOVES the artificiality of makeup, and who recognizes just how CGI'd most images have become - perhaps even more in photography we don't even think about being altered than in special effects we acknowledge every day - the pervasiveness and effects of this imagery are saddening, sickening, deeply disturbing. Many of the pics used are obviously exemplars - just ways to demonstrate the power of image manipulation.
But too many of them are the faces of those put before us every day as expectations - as ideals - to aspire to.
And the one of the child is just too much to even manage, emotionally. A *child* isn't deemed beautiful enough to print. *Sigh*
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