High Fashion Photoshop Guro

Things like this really strike one in me...

And I don't just mean my usual "Modern Women who seek to destroy all men" rabid frothing rant...

It's part of my liking of "Heroic Fantasy" of "Sword and Sorcery" in all it's "Thudd and Blunder" greatness... Mighty barbarians, sinister Lovecraftian monsters, savage beasts, exotic locales of mythic past and post human future and NeverWheres... And buxom healthy women usually in underdress being in peril...

And of course, I get the "you are a dinosaur, and like the dinosaurs you will go extinct from dragging your genitals..." from the "Hyena in petticoat" crowd.

But this crowd while bashing men, reads and eats and breathes this "Fashion" stuff. They might want a non-millionaire man to "Settle for" or rather "plead for" the "Fat hairy leg and bitchy to boot" crop, but they still eat and breathe this "High Fashion" stuff.

Its one thing I got b*tched at for, reading a re-print of "Conan" in a local bookstore. Some "Cosmo" lady was talking about unhealthy standards both in earshot of me and then to me when I politely ignored her. And the cover, btw, wasn't with a near-naked woman, just the Frazetta artwork. This was a few years back when Fraz'z work was being re-printed. She mentioned various things, including believe it or not "unhealthy standards" and "Sexist Stereotypes"... As she had a pile of "Diet" books and "Fashion" magazines.

So, I grabbed Frazetta's stuff and politely introduced myself and sat down. I opened them for some of his artwork. "Now, let's get beyond the dress issue, look at the bodies. The men are Godly, but a type that comes from a much more active lifestyle. Makes me want to stay at a farm for a summer... The ladies, well again, take a look at their bodies. Yeah, they have big breasts but also look that they have a healthy muscular structure and some healthy weight. Idealized, but not too ridiculous."

-"Now", I opened her books, "let's look here." I went, it took NO searching, to various models. I pointed out obvious photoshopping via background distortion (they were either really lazy or amateurs in those issues, lots of easy to find "Smudge" and stuff) to make thinner, one where a lady looked anorexic and sickly and had makeup so thick it was clumping over her sickly skeletal face...

-"The long and short is, I could either work on a farm a summer or go to the gym more often and cut out the soda pop and chips and look closer to the "Tarzan" guys. Not as beefy, but close. Now, you seem to want to look like these models, but let me point out minus the computer edit, you'd only have to work HALF as hard at worse to look like a fantasy babe. Her clothes would be dirt cheap to make, versus thousands for these tight rags, too! And I'd be more eager to rescue the fantasy one from one of these Lovecraft rejects, though being a gentleman I'd try to help out anyone in distress."

And I said all this nice. Tried to talk sweet to her. She was a brunette and a bit pudgy but not really obese. Frankly wanted to F*ck her and I mean the nice romantic stuff like cheer her up and see her smile. But she just threw some magazines and rather heavy diet books at me and left:-( Another casualty of the "Modern Women who seek to destroy all men." she was wrapped up in the hatred of male stereotypes while embracing the modern "Fashion" that's worse. And I didn't say anything dumb like "You don't look like that, but-" I was more "You are really beautiful, you know that? All this is just fantasy..."

Yeah, maybe I was the "Dinosaur dragging my immense genitals behind me as I roared for the ladies attention" but what's wrong with that?

Shit like this makes me so angry. It is because of people like this who keep on churning out awfully photoshopped women that are "flawless" and skeletal that so many girls are anorexic and bulimic. And it's not just because I feel bad for their unhealthy and food-deprived lifestyle, but it screws up everything else in their life as well. Two girls in my grade had to leave school to go to rehab because their conditions were so serious. One of them ended up having to switch schools and the other, who was out for a year, is still desperately trying to make up all the work she missed. It's such a pity, she was such a smart girl too.

I'm currently struggling with not starving myself right now, and it doesn't help when I am constantly confronted with unrealistic women like the one in this article (though admittedly they usually don't look so scarily thin).

Interestingly enough, I heard that France was trying to pass a law that requires advertisers to clearly state that they've been photoshopped so that women don't have unrealistic ideas about beauty.

At first, I thought the photoshopping was done to her waist & legs, but it's to her HEAD?!?

Don't know about the rest of you, but IF I could get over her skeletal figure, I would worry that if I touched her, she might break, not to mention cracks in the floor, she could easily slip through one & I never see her again.

I'll take the one on the left. :3

photoshop fail

At least 2D lovers are honest with themselves about liking something that isn't real.

Just one word: Fucktards.

Im done, thnx

Sweet Bejeebus. Ralph Lauren's company made that abomination ? I thought it was the work of some 4chan noob.

"Doubtless next time they will remember to shrink her head as well."

Lol'd

skeletor's wife

The person that shopped this clearly has a distorted view of the human body... Or did it for the lulz.

I think the real sick thing that the models aren't even photoshopped into skeletons to appeal to men (no man could want that broomstick) but apparently to appeal to women. Maybe it goes like this: "You'll look slim in this." Then next season all models are slim and a little retouching is required to get the desired effect and you get a sort of photo-editing arms-race.
I think maybe young girls need to be told what men really want, and how much diversity there is. It's weird that you should have to do this, but it looks like society needs a kind of reality check.

They should finally stop using that heavy photoshop and xxs models.

Why this are here i dont get it ?_?
some kind of torture ?_?

Wouldn't be surprised if the picture wasn't photoshopped.

Anon post rule ftw

It's the scarecrow woman. Run for your lives. Where is Batman.

aya's such a whale

I like fat chicks.

3d pig disgusting

3d mutant irritating

Seems Ralph Lauren learned the term nendroid