Special effects aren't just used to create huge explosions or herds of dinosaurs that trample everything in their path. They also can and do take pimples off of teen stars, erase years off actors' faces, and elongate bodies to create slimmer physiques. Nobody looks like what you see on TV and in the movies; everybody is altered. It creates real identity problems for girls when growing up. We see these nice bubbly women on tv and in magazines and think that everyone does or should look like that, and that anyone who doesn't inst "normal". Girls think they have to be that skinny, tall. They have to buy certain clothes. It also introduces the concept of the surveyed and the surveyor early on. In media women play the passive role only looking good for the men that are constantly surveying them. Young girls get used to being an object to be looked at. There are not many realistic or unpolished celebrities for women to look up to. Now more than ever there are make up tutorials, water proof makeup, make up you can sleep in. Only promoting this facade young women can not live up to. Why don't we embrace fresh clean skin? When did the obsession for perfection trump reality?
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