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tazzygirl -> RE: McCain camp: Palin account 'all fiction' (11/17/2009 8:02:11 PM)
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Like this one?
The article includes this tid bit...
Tantaros called the cover a “gross slap in the face,” objecting to the fact that the photo appeared “un-retouched.” Said Tantaros, “it highlights every imperfection that every human being has, but we’re talking unwanted facial hair, pores, wrinkles.” The anchor chimed in, saying, “When they put you up close and personal on a magazine, even the gorgeous super models in the world, they retouch you to get rid of the normal flaws that human beings have. That’s what they do in the magazine business. They didn’t do it for Governor Palin.”
The cover was particularly grating to Tantaros when compared to Newsweek’s cover shots of Barack Obama. “After Newsweek has done so many favorable covers of Barack Obama that make him look presidential, that are clearly retouched. He looks flawless,” she says, adding: “He looks perfect, Julia. He looks perfect.”
“This is reality,” countered Piscitelli, after noting there was no evidence that an Obama cover had been retouched, either. “Demanding that political figures get retouching like super-models on the cover of news magazines is going a little far. What’s wrong with showing women the way they actually look, especially a woman as beautiful as Sarah Palin?”
I agree with Piscitelli that it’s absurd to ask news publications to adhere to standards set by fashion magazines. Photoshopping women’s bodies and faces—a process that takes even the most beautiful women in the world and distorts them to flawless, often anatomically impossible Barbie dolls—is out-of-control in women’s magazines; we don’t need Newsweek reinforcing an absurd standard of beauty on politicians, too.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2008/10/09/sarah-palin-lip-hairs-and-all/
What is wrong with her imperfections that she has to throw a fit over this photo, or any other that she posed for?
One, its like blaming the porn mags for publishing naked pics of beauty queens. Sorry, you posed for them. I dont care if the pic was for a running magazine. If she didnt have enough sense to realize something like that would come back to bite her ass, thyen she is stupider than i thought.
Two, our young girls are overrun with pics of women looking impossibly perfect. We dont need a woman in a high place of power in this country complaining about the lack of respect her beauty is given.
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