Ex Copper TRA arrested, finally.

When I was an art student in the late 70s my boyfriend was a graphics student and they used all sorts of trickery in their work. It was where I first came across the idea of air-brushing and it was extremely effective in softening images.

All this talk is putting me in mind of that Simpsons episode where Homer wins a boudoir photoshoot, and the photographer keeps adding more and more vaseline to the lens in a bid to make him look good!

True, I used to do a lot of film photography & developed my own pics. There's an enormous amount of darkroom trickery you can do without ever going near any digital processes. Don't forget picking a helpful lens to begin with, & using forgiving 35mm for portraits instead of medium-format

Aside from the utter futility of attempting diagnosis of someone you've never met, far less properly assessed, all you've got is a personal collection of "may/ might/ could". There are plenty of other viable diagnoses & aetiologies so let's wait & see if the Court orders psych reports.

Is that the French equivalent of “a bulldog chewing a wasp”?

I'm really quite concerned that people on this board are convinced that women can do no wrong and that women's wrongdoing has no consequence for others.

This thread is about Linsay Watson. I think he's about the only 'woman' that doesn't seem to have consequences for his actions that I know of.

Yes, I'm well aware of that, and where airbrushing came from. I was thinking of manipulated photographs in magazines exhibiting an impossible to achieve perfection, and although it was still being referred to as airbrushing around my way I was fairly sure it was digital manipulation. It's all a hazy memory of trying to make my DD aware of it.
Anywya, that's by the by, interesting to see how long the digital variety has been about.

I just spat my coffee all over my keyboard - that must have been the cat lady's fault as well..

I bet a woman owned the cat and it was all her fault for letting it out of the house.

Or a Tom that had been neutered so just identified as a female, makes more sense.

It's always the cat 🐈

And of course, it was a female cat.

Ergo it is the cat’s fault.

I knew it, I said all along it was the cat.

I think the reason LW is an obnoxious man is because when he was two his saw a cat get hit by a car and this left him so traumatised his father had to take him on holiday to Bournemouth where a seagull stole his ice cream. He has never recovered from that theft which he associated with his father being a man and the seagull disliking him (as demonstrated by pooping on him - which your LW was not convinced was good luck). Ever since then LW has tried to hide from seagulls by adopting the identity of a woman. He is petrified that a seagull may one day overhear someone point out he is a man.

Ergo it is the cat’s fault.

"A man is behaving in an aggressive and masculine way. Let me try and figure it out - oh yes, a woman must be to blame!" 🙄

Do people really not understanding where the expression "airbrushing" comes from? The clue is in the term! Pre-digital manipulation of photographs.

Also, lighting and makeup can do a lot too.

And, of course, before photography, paintings would nearly always flatter their subjects - much to HenryVIII dissatisfaction (though it worked out well for Anne in the end)

The point is, you have absolutely no evidence he was abused by a woman whatsoever. None, so why is it even relevant?

We all know that occasionally a woman will abuse a child; no one is denying that. There's just no evidence this has happened ot this particular person, and statistically speaking, if he was abused, and we have no proof he was, it's far more likely to have been by a man.

The victorians manipulated images.

Image manipulation has been around since images became a thing, ease and sophistication has improved of course.

I didn't know that. I'm very glad he didn't qualify.

He also tried to be a female nurse, after having been thrown out of the police force.

The man's a literal caution.

He is clearly power crazed and gets off on manipulating people and punishing those who disagree with him and when he ran out of road within the police force, he uses them from outside and brings in the courts. He is a shameful human being and I hope one day he gets the book thrown at him.

I don't believe for a second he was abused by a woman as a child, it's the very opposite of occam's razor viz his behaviour.

On the topic of mothers, watch this video from 4 minutes 50.

Photoshop has been around for nearly forty years. Digital manipulation of images was well established & pretty mainstream 25 years ago.