Interesting article comparing photoshopping of men and women

[QuentinSummers]

victimfocus.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/comparing-men-women-who-gets-photoshopped-the-most/

Jessica Eaton has written another cracking blog. Very interesting.

That is depressing. Jessica Eaton, however, is amazing.

Depressing. Thanks for sharing. I think.

Not what I would have expected I think. I'd have expected more changes to the man, in line with the US photo. It's almost as if there's a rule in most countries that a man must be seen to look good whatever he looks like - there should be no criticism of how a man looks.

That's an interesting point okdok
I wonder if consumer culture in the US affected how the man was portrayed.

I found it odd that the woman's underwear and shoes were photoshopped as well as her body

that’s a really interesting blog. how unattainable the standards for women are. Naomi Wolf was writing about this in the early 90s- she called it “the iron maiden”- the perfect body image tightens ever closer until it kills you

Thanks for sharing OP

Clever way of very literally showing the disparity in the way a male and female body are judged as acceptable

It's that thing again isn't it - where they interpreted 'the perfect body' as 'the perfect body for a woman' and 'the perfect body for that particular man'

ie. the man was himself, and they improved him, but the woman was a standin for all women and they made her generic.

Men get to be individuals, women get to be a blob labelled 'women' - it's always this way.

Men get to be individuals, women get to be a blob labelled 'women' - it's always this way.

That's it. That's always bloody it.

This is fascinating and offers great insight.

I would point out, however, that the one country that significantly altered the man's appearance is the country where arguably the majority of the world's images come from (eg in the film and television industries - Hollywood etc). So the world is being disproportionately exposed to the American ideals Obviously every country has its own film, tv and modelling industries from which a significant amount of the images its citizens are exposed to come, and these will dilute the effect of the American images to a degree but we may still be moving slowly towards the American ideal everywhere. I would be interested to see the study repeated in 5 or 10 years.

Also, if you're not in Bangladesh, Indonesia etc you aren't going to be exposed to their images of the perfect man very often. So for most people the result will maybe be a halfway point between their country's photoshop standard and the US standard.

Did anyone click through to see all of the images of the man? I found the original page - onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/perceptions-of-perfection-part-ii-men/?utm_source=affiliatewindow&utm_medium=affiliate I don't know why I was so surprised it came from Superdrug.

I can see the woman is generally changed to soft and curvy and the man to muscular - this isn't a real surprise - it's a bit depressing that women are there to be looked at and men are meant to be strong and muscular. The original experiment listed BMI, but that wasn't given for the man, which is a shame because he seems to be overweight in some whereas the woman didn't go above 25.5 - clearly women are not allowed to be overweight to be considered perfect while men are - no pressure there