handy
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Elsewhere on the board there is a thread about an Italian clothing company photoshopping various heads of state lipped-locked in mainly homosexual kisses. It's for world peace, or so they say...
But, I was looking through a website dedicated to photoshopped images in advertising and was discussing with my daughter the images we now see plastered all over, images that are now put forth as what is "beautiful" or what a body should be.
Images like this:
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Each of these already quite thin women were apparently still "too fat" for the fashion editors so the art department had to photoshop their bodies even thinner, making them look like they have these really large heads. I wanted Viola to see that these images are fake...no real woman looks like that.
After our conversation, out of curiosity I googled "My head is too small for my body" to see if images like these are translating into real girls and young women thinking that they have a too large head.
Sure enough...there are a lot of questions about this out there.
It is amazing to me, how savvy the kids are about techie stuff, how knowledgeable they are about how things are manipulated...but still girls are buying this idea that one must be some kind of super skinny lollipop-headed snake woman with a super-slim, elongated torso and giraffe neck. I guess it's because the images are shown over and over and over...and it's translating back as what being a woman should look like.
Here is one conversation I found on the internet posted by a young woman:
i was walking toward my friend down the hall when we spotted each other, but when i reached her she was laughing so hard.
"what's so funny?" i asked.
"your head is so small!" she screamed. i was stunned and close to tears.
i asked my brother, my mom, my other friend, my boyfriend.... they all agreed but added "it's cute" or something pathetic like that.
i can change my body, but what the [h---] can i do with my face???? i can't enlarge my head! i'm screwed.
i'm 5'8, 155 lbs. i'm athletic with broad shoulders and broad hips. i think my body wouldn't look huge if my head was larger, or my head wouldn't look so small if my body wasn't too fat.
So, here is this young woman, girl maybe, who is tall and has a very healthy body weight of 155 (bmi 22, right smack dab in the middle of normal) and she is being viewed as having a "too small" head. As one can see, it upsets her that she can't enlarge her head. Is she going to extreme diet now...now that she thinks her body is too fat?
And, here are some of the helpful comments she received:
My friend has a really small head too! And she is close to 5'10" around 140lbs. I guess you just have to accept it. Sometimes it helps when she makes her hair seem bigger by curling it
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You can wear clothes that play up your head and make it appear more in proportion. Same with hair (as mentioned above) and makeup. Don't worry about it too much!
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I have a pigmie head compared to my husband and kids. I figure they aren't ginormously headed, but mine is smaller than average.
(in fairness to the dialogue, there were some very helpful comments for the girl)
I want to scream out that this is just skewed body image, but there's not a lot of use screaming at an Internet discussion.
One thing that is touted as being essential for beauty is a tall slim body...and even with tall slim models, they stretch and slim them even more. Growing up with the "tall thin" model images, me...at 4'11 knew I'd never make the cover of Vogue. Good thing that wasn't my goal, but I do understand a bit of the pressure put on girls and young women to have the perfect proportion of everything. Now that the fashion industry has succeeded in driving millions of girls into unhealthy eating habits, starvation diets and even anorexia...I guess we can dump on them one more thing that all the dieting in the world won't fix...having too small of a head.
BTW...the Title for the Topic should be "My head is too small for my body"...but I can't edit that...don't know why an old topic title of mine should be in there...if one of the mods can change the title, that would be great.
But, I was looking through a website dedicated to photoshopped images in advertising and was discussing with my daughter the images we now see plastered all over, images that are now put forth as what is "beautiful" or what a body should be.
Images like this:
View attachment 2179
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Each of these already quite thin women were apparently still "too fat" for the fashion editors so the art department had to photoshop their bodies even thinner, making them look like they have these really large heads. I wanted Viola to see that these images are fake...no real woman looks like that.
After our conversation, out of curiosity I googled "My head is too small for my body" to see if images like these are translating into real girls and young women thinking that they have a too large head.
Sure enough...there are a lot of questions about this out there.
It is amazing to me, how savvy the kids are about techie stuff, how knowledgeable they are about how things are manipulated...but still girls are buying this idea that one must be some kind of super skinny lollipop-headed snake woman with a super-slim, elongated torso and giraffe neck. I guess it's because the images are shown over and over and over...and it's translating back as what being a woman should look like.
Here is one conversation I found on the internet posted by a young woman:
i was walking toward my friend down the hall when we spotted each other, but when i reached her she was laughing so hard.
"what's so funny?" i asked.
"your head is so small!" she screamed. i was stunned and close to tears.
i asked my brother, my mom, my other friend, my boyfriend.... they all agreed but added "it's cute" or something pathetic like that.
i can change my body, but what the [h---] can i do with my face???? i can't enlarge my head! i'm screwed.
i'm 5'8, 155 lbs. i'm athletic with broad shoulders and broad hips. i think my body wouldn't look huge if my head was larger, or my head wouldn't look so small if my body wasn't too fat.
So, here is this young woman, girl maybe, who is tall and has a very healthy body weight of 155 (bmi 22, right smack dab in the middle of normal) and she is being viewed as having a "too small" head. As one can see, it upsets her that she can't enlarge her head. Is she going to extreme diet now...now that she thinks her body is too fat?
And, here are some of the helpful comments she received:
My friend has a really small head too! And she is close to 5'10" around 140lbs. I guess you just have to accept it. Sometimes it helps when she makes her hair seem bigger by curling it
------
You can wear clothes that play up your head and make it appear more in proportion. Same with hair (as mentioned above) and makeup. Don't worry about it too much!
------
I have a pigmie head compared to my husband and kids. I figure they aren't ginormously headed, but mine is smaller than average.
(in fairness to the dialogue, there were some very helpful comments for the girl)
I want to scream out that this is just skewed body image, but there's not a lot of use screaming at an Internet discussion.
One thing that is touted as being essential for beauty is a tall slim body...and even with tall slim models, they stretch and slim them even more. Growing up with the "tall thin" model images, me...at 4'11 knew I'd never make the cover of Vogue. Good thing that wasn't my goal, but I do understand a bit of the pressure put on girls and young women to have the perfect proportion of everything. Now that the fashion industry has succeeded in driving millions of girls into unhealthy eating habits, starvation diets and even anorexia...I guess we can dump on them one more thing that all the dieting in the world won't fix...having too small of a head.
BTW...the Title for the Topic should be "My head is too small for my body"...but I can't edit that...don't know why an old topic title of mine should be in there...if one of the mods can change the title, that would be great.
[self-contradictory] 
