Why Is Photoshop: The Great Unequal

“Photoshop: The Great Unequal”

For years photoshop `has affected the way that people look at their bodies. People see these images and aspire to be them, when no one actually looks like the images that they see. Photoshop has people see what they want to see in themselves, when they’re actually perfect just the way they are. People are impacted from all sorts of media to have a “perfect body”. Movies, shows and, videos all should have disclaimers of unrealistic bodies so people know that it is an unrealistic body.

Unrealistic bodies hurt people each year and aspire to be that unreal body. About 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from eating disorders in the United States and the numbers are getting higher. Only 1 in 10 people actually receive treatment to overcome their disorders. The impact can hurt the young people, too ⅘ children worry about being fat each year.

The television and magazines get into kid’s hands and they have an impact on how kids look at themselves. In television 95% of female actors are thin or underweight whereas only 5% have overweight bodies (Dying to be a Barbie). People have still come a long way from the original impact, but it’s still pretty bad. On Adele’s photoshop they state, “ “It looks like she’s been enhanced,” Anjulie Mittleman of Medford said. “I don’t think it’s a good thing,” said Marion Martin”,(CBS) Adele also did not approve of this. Melissa McCarthy, a victim of photoshop on a movie poster states, ““I just thought, that’s someone who’s in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs,” she added.” (Huffpost), and that show how she could laugh it off, but some people took it more seriously. People will do anything to have a perfect body,and people feel more confident when they lose weight, even though they don’t need