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My.Daily.Distraction ~ Post 119: Dear Magazines… Enough Of The Phoney Baloney

18 Wednesday Feb 2015

Posted by duckykoren in Advertising, marketing, Media, Photography, Sales

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Working at the Post Office, I’ve sorted a lot of magazines.

I know that I am coming close to my breaking point with all the photoshopping that I’ve seen.

Certainly, we have grown too complacent with the false images of perfection that these magazines convey.

Further, I feel we may have even grown blind to their negative effects.

My question is:

How much airbrushing is too much?

Case in point:

Last month there was a magazine featuring a celebrity and her family.

What a nice looking family you may think…

Not a hair out of place with a lovely array of sparkling faces beaming up at you from the cover photo.

But heck…

Even their DOGS are photoshopped.

Further, I recently saw a magazine cover of a popular singer with her beautiful new baby girl.

I had to do a double take on the baby’s eyes because they were such a deep and unnatural aquamarine blue.

My initial reaction was…

“Really?”

Which quickly denigrated to a…

“Aw, c’mon…

If I were to see such eyes in real life I would consider them scary.

And I’m talking Damien from ‘The Omen’ scary.

This is an image of a made up person.

Fiction.

Not real.

This sets an unobtainable high standard for children, young people and adults who don’t know any better.

Years ago, I went to my local Ancaster County Fair which is held annually in the fall.

There, of course were the obligatory farm animals, jam contests and vendors selling their wares.

Picture this:

At the end of one aisle was a woman selling weight loss supplements.

Of course, this woman was very slender and an exemplary candidate which mirrored her sales pitch.

However, her young and lithe body did not match her face and neck which was beset by premature wrinkles giving her skin an aged, and extremely leathered look.

Now, on the exact opposite end of the very same aisle was a female vendor who was selling skin care products.

She had beautiful, radiant and glowing skin. She was so very lovely with her rose leaf complexion.

However, she was also very, very…

…Round.

No word of a lie.

Over the years, I’ve thought about these two women.

They gave become a valuable reference tool for me.

To me, the lesson is:

YOU CAN’T HAVE IT ALL.

Life is not like that.

Surprisingly enough, this week I saw a copy of a magazine with about half a dozen models on the cover. They all looked very young indeed, however there was something unusual about them.

They looked as if they had no make up on.

The magazine headline read:

“No photoshopping was used in the production of this photograph.”

Could this be the start of something new?

We can only hope.

Memories of My Mother… Part Twenty: Accountability 101

24 Tuesday Jun 2014

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I remember one day as a child playfully running when I accidentally fell.

The glass jar I was carrying smashed onto the sidewalk, along with me, breaking into a multitude of sharp jagged pieces.

As I landed my inner arm was badly sliced.

I still have the scar.

Seeing the blood running down my arm, the adults were naturally horrified and asked what had happened.

So, what did I do?

I lied, being embarrassed over such a silly mishap…

(After all, like scissors, one should never run while carrying glass jars…)

I wished to confer my irresponsibility onto someone else, and told everyone that my playmate had pushed me.

It seemed the easiest thing to do.

The next day, after my playmate insisted that she had not pushed me, my Mother realized that I had wrongly accused her for something that had been my own fault.

Naturally, my Mother was not going to stand for my bad behaviour.

I was ordered to go to the family of the wronged playmate, confess that I had lied, and then apologized for the grief that I had caused.

It was my first lesson in accountability, and one that I never forgot.

I was four years old.

Today’s news is filled with similar stories. However, today’s liars are not five year old children but rather grown adults. I can’t help but wonder if they were ever held fearfully accountable by their parents for their wrongdoings.

Maybe if they had a Mother like mine, the news today would not be so grim.

No… can honestly say, that neither one of my parents would not have put up with any of these modern day liars and cheats when they were getting away with their ongoing childhood cover ups…

And neither would have yours.

 

 

 

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