Feminism and Diversity

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts) Thu May 24, 2012, 03:26 PM May 2012

YOU’RE NOT PERFECT, AND THAT’S OKAY!

http://denisesalceda.com/youre-not-perfect-and-thats-okay

Those images are photoshopped and create an unrealistic and warped representation of reality that a lot of young, impressionable people aspire to.

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YOU’RE NOT PERFECT, AND THAT’S OKAY! (Original Post) La Lioness Priyanka May 2012 OP

i for one am glad i am not the only person who is aging La Lioness Priyanka May 2012 #1

Join the club! It's where all the cool kids are these days arcane1 May 2012 #3

meh La Lioness Priyanka May 2012 #4

I was shocked by some of those. alittlelark May 2012 #2

yup. one thing is good to know is that people do age and even jessica alba La Lioness Priyanka May 2012 #5

It's not new... rrneck May 2012 #6

i think the problem is the ubiquitousness La Lioness Priyanka May 2012 #7

Absolutely. rrneck May 2012 #8

I don't think heroic sculpture was used to sell beauty products by the billions of dollars. Starry Messenger May 2012 #13

Do you think the average Greek male looked rrneck May 2012 #14

I don't think you read my post. Starry Messenger May 2012 #15

Every image is an abstraction. rrneck May 2012 #16

Wow... those were really revealing kdmorris May 2012 #9

wow, it's not just the faces it's also the breasts, arms maddezmom May 2012 #10

I think Sharon Stone looked better before being "shopped" justiceischeap May 2012 #11

i think we are wiping out aging in celebs La Lioness Priyanka May 2012 #12

Airbrushing makes people look kind to creepy to me. Neoplebe Jun 2012 #17

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)

1. i for one am glad i am not the only person who is aging

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Original post)

Thu May 24, 2012, 03:30 PM

May 2012

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

3. Join the club! It's where all the cool kids are these days

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Reply #1)

Thu May 24, 2012, 03:34 PM

May 2012

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)

4. meh

Reply to arcane1 (Reply #3)

Thu May 24, 2012, 03:44 PM

May 2012

i dont want to age

alittlelark

(18,918 posts)

2. I was shocked by some of those.

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Original post)

Thu May 24, 2012, 03:33 PM

May 2012

I'm sending the link to my daughter.

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)

5. yup. one thing is good to know is that people do age and even jessica alba

Reply to alittlelark (Reply #2)

Thu May 24, 2012, 03:58 PM

May 2012

is not perfect

so why should i bother to be?

rrneck

(17,671 posts)

6. It's not new...

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Original post)

Thu May 24, 2012, 08:03 PM

May 2012

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polykleitos
Polykleitos consciously created a new approach to sculpture; he wrote a treatise ( Kanon) and designed a male nude (also known as Kanon) exemplifying his aesthetic theories of the mathematical bases of artistic perfection, which motivated Kenneth Clark to place him among "the[ 4] great puritans of art":[ 4] His Kanon "got its name great puritans of art" His Kanon "got its name because it had a precise commensurability[ 5]( symmetria) of all the parts to one another"[ 5] "His( symmetria) of all the parts to one another" "His general aim was clarity, balance, and completeness; his sole medium of communication the naked body of an athlete, standing poised between movement and repose" Kenneth Clark observed.

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)

7. i think the problem is the ubiquitousness

Reply to rrneck (Reply #6)

Thu May 24, 2012, 08:07 PM

May 2012

and the fact that it's only recently actually been exposed

rrneck

(17,671 posts)

8. Absolutely.

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Reply #7)

Thu May 24, 2012, 08:24 PM

May 2012

Knowledge is power.

Starry Messenger

(32,375 posts)

13. I don't think heroic sculpture was used to sell beauty products by the billions of dollars.

Reply to rrneck (Reply #6)

Sun May 27, 2012, 11:20 PM

May 2012

There is also the issue of mass reproduction of images, which wasn't a problem in ancient Greece. Second, the heroic ideal was a specific genre. Actual portraiture was based in observed details of reality, and while flattering wasn't quite as utopian.

rrneck

(17,671 posts)

14. Do you think the average Greek male looked

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #13)

Mon May 28, 2012, 10:18 AM

May 2012

like that sculpture? Polyklitos kanon was a mathematical set of proportions developed to define physical perfection. It was an almost certainly unattainable ideal, as surely as any photoshopped image today. Both computer software and a chisel perform the same function - the representation of of an ideal divorced from reality and beyond the reach of human achievement.

The Greeks were selling something other than cosmetics. And they did a much better job of it. I believe the Olympics are in London this year.

Starry Messenger

(32,375 posts)

15. I don't think you read my post.

Reply to rrneck (Reply #14)

Mon May 28, 2012, 11:20 AM

May 2012

rrneck

(17,671 posts)

16. Every image is an abstraction.

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #15)

Mon May 28, 2012, 12:17 PM

May 2012

Vermisillitude is itself an impossible ideal. Art reflects the culture in which it is produced and the technology involved in its production and its utilitarian function are the result of the same human desire to physically manifest an idea. From Lasceaux to photoshopping an image of Jessica Alba the objective is the same.

Perhaps if you make your point more clearly we can proceed further.

kdmorris

(5,649 posts)

9. Wow... those were really revealing

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Original post)

Fri May 25, 2012, 02:06 PM

May 2012

I knew they did that... I guess I didn't know how MUCH they did that.

maddezmom

(135,060 posts)

10. wow, it's not just the faces it's also the breasts, arms

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Original post)

Fri May 25, 2012, 04:50 PM

May 2012

can't have sort of natural wrinkles.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)

11. I think Sharon Stone looked better before being "shopped"

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Original post)

Sun May 27, 2012, 07:56 AM

May 2012

but that's just me...

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)

12. i think we are wiping out aging in celebs

Reply to justiceischeap (Reply #11)

Sun May 27, 2012, 04:08 PM

May 2012

which is real creepy

Neoplebe

(9 posts)

17. Airbrushing makes people look kind to creepy to me.

Reply to La Lioness Priyanka (Original post)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 01:23 PM

Jun 2012

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The concept of perfection renders itself an impossibility as any spectrum of consideration will have at least two opposing perspectives.

Perfection is something powered by instinctively-based intellectualism which limits a persons understanding to finite concepts. As the unwavering truth of the universe and our existence is ever constantly reminding us that chaos reigns, holding to such concepts sacrifices ones potential to experience wondrous discovery.

Why do they call these people celebrities when they are nothing to be celebrated?

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