Should airbrushing be banned?
I was watching the news this morning (whilst chomping on my Bran Flakes) and there was a story regarding airbrushing. A school girl who was an anorexic recoverer has been campaigning across Britain to stop companies using airbrushed images as they are making people feel bad about themselves and is not a natural representation of the average person.
According to this girl, during her campaigns she had come across children as young as five years old being overly-conscience about their weight!
When asked about what their best five things about themselves they liked the most, most of these very young children included that they were not overweight! A psychologist sitting in on the story said that normally, children as young as five would focus purely on their intrinsic attributes, for example, they are happy because they love their mummies and daddies, they are kind and helpful or they look after their pets.
It seems that these children are now very aware of their extrinsic attributes. It is believed that media hype is responsible for this (and I would imagine parents conditioning their children into thinking this too). The psychologist continued to say that airbrushing is a tactic that companies use (especially in the fashion industry) to make people feel bad about themselves so that they will go out and spend all their money to look better!
It is a fact that we are all under a lot of pressure to look 'perfect', but it is also important to focus on our inner qualities rather than the superficial and not put our children under pressure to look like everyone they see in the adverts.
So what are your thoughts? Do you think that companies should stop airbrushing in their pictures and show a true portrayal of the average person, or do you think that they should be allowed to continue and sell their products as they are already?
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Originally Posted by samlad
