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So this is a comment on the From "Kiss my fat ass!" to "Tyra's diet secrets revealed!" post but I can’t figure out how to open the comment window for some strange reason. Probably because technology is trying to kill me via frustration. Anyways….

I think that Riley makes some very good points in this blog post. In a textual analysis class I took through the English department discussed a similar issue. We talked about the need for campaigns such as “big is beautiful” Such a statement would not need to exist unless there had previously been an argument as to the opposite. No one would ever need to point out that “big is beautiful” unless someone else has told you that it is ugly. It is no wonder that there is such confusion surrounding body image and that the need exists to ask “what exactly is real beauty anyways?” I was clicking through the dove makeover campaign videos on YouTube when I came across this> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJx-UOYA6Qo&feature=related Photoshop video concerning celebrities. It floored me that the people that most would already consider gorgeous had to be reshaped and modified. The rounding and sculpting in the stomach area in some of the photos is incredibly noticeable. This video caused me a raise questions about the reality of the millions of pictures we are subjected to everyday. How are we to be expected to conform to the media’s definition of beauty if our mirrors do not come equipped with Photoshop?