smile and say no photoshop article post

The main points of the article Smile and Say “No Photoshop” are that women and even men are
being in magazines and other pictured books and do not look the way they normally do. People
do not usually ask to be photo shopped, but people who write the magazines assume that there is
nothing wrong with fixing the way a person looks to their critique, when in all actuality there is a
problem. One cannot just change the way a person looks, whether it’s making them looker
thicker or thinner because it creates a so called “perfect” view of people and how they should
look and many disagree with that.

I agree with the general ideas of this article because I think that everyone should just be
themselves and not care what others think about them. All that really matters is if the person is
happy with themselves in life. If one is happy with the way they look, then why should they
change the way they are for anyone else’s behalf? Many always try and say “be yourself and no
one else,” but if they wanted someone to be themselves, then why would that person try and say
“oh, I wish I was skinny like her and had perfect wavy hair?” It’s because they are contradicting
themselves. I know that if I was in a magazine, I would not want to look any different then what
I look like right this moment. I believe photo shop should only be used to cover up something like a pimple of bring out the color in the picture. I do not think photo shop should be used to change the size of a persons body, the color of their eyes or hair, their shape, etc. Those types of things are something that someone is born with and should be kept the way they are because that is the beauty of being a unique and different individual. No human being should look exactly the same as another one.