Worst OP I've read in a while.

But you knew that.

Steroids are harmful, even deadly. Photoshop is a computer program.

Years and years ago, I was one of the people responsible for Photoshopping the Playboy catalog. None of those women were going to suffer long-term effects from my use of a mouse. They just lost a distracting mole, line, scar, etc. from a photo. One of my closest friends is a model and all of her portfolio pics have been Photoshopped. She doesn't have an eating disorder, she's a healthy and fit woman.

Now, if you wanted to compare steroid use to eating disorders encouraged by modeling agencies, I'd be all on board with that.

Should that be illegal?

the young girls who try to emulate the impossible images of chopped/cropped models will have the physical/emotional health problems

We had a 13 y/o girl not far from me commit suicide two years ago after being bullied and developing anorexia. Those images are powerful.

Maybe not you or I.

But alot of young girls who read those fashion magazines believe that they need to be eating disorder thin in order to be beautiful.

If we just showcased healthy, normal-weight women as fashionable we could help teach young girls that being too thin is not a good thing.

I don't think that there is evidence (as opposed to supposition) that viewing pictures causes mental health problems.

as someone who was once a young girl herself - trust me, it does have an impact. Eating disorders are a serious issue in this country and there are other countries who are starting to make changes with how they portray women in fashion. Several European countries will no longer use models with body fat under 18% and Israel is now making people note whether or not a photo was photoshopped.

Sure not every girl that looks at a model that is way to thing will develop an eating disorder but it does have an impact on it.

Countries all over the world make foolish laws. Many people have written countless law review articles about the foolish laws in this country. The fact that certain countries have laws does not presuppose that those laws are based on reality or science.

Do looking at pictures of thin women make young girls sad or make them feel inadequate since they are not thin like the models? Based upon your testimony I grant that that is true. There are many things that make me sad. The fact that the Cubs have not won a world series in my lifetime makes me sad. But legislation mandating a world series win by the Cubs would be wrong. We do not legislate against hurt feelings.

Banning something is a big step. In order to do that we should have real evidence.


on edit: Eating disorders are clearly mental health problems. I don't buy that looking at pictures of thin women causes or aggravtes said mental health problems.

You learn alot from someone like that along with the countless articles written about there and the Pro-Ani sites that cater to young girls who want to be a thin as the models they see in the magazine.

But hell what do I know?

Not for the model but for teenage girls

Yes.

Photoshopping gives girls and young women false impressions on what they're supposed to look like.

If they feel insecure already, it only gets worse.

If they don't feel insecure, it can create a problem where none existed before.

Eating disorders. Unsafe dieting. Girls and young women believing their bodies and faces are not "good enough".

Yes...that can lead to health problems and/or unnecessary dieting or surgery.

and both do indeed cause health problems later in life.

Photoshop is neither a drug or a cause of drug use. And its use is increasingly pointed out so that even the most unsophisticated person is starting to get that the images in fashion magazines are "fixed" in some way.

'If steroids are illegal for athletes, photoshop should be illegal for models' is really comparing apples to durians. A silly idea.
But some folks like a windmill to tilt at.

But I think a better comparison would be "if steroids are illegal for athletes, Eating disorders should be illegal for models"

Also plastic surgery for actors, coffee for truckers, etc

Model to Billboard in 60 seconds...

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skin is SUPPOSED to have texture.

I'm fed up with these computer-driven lies! Let's get rid of all of them!