Should the USA Pass a Law to Ban Airbrushing?

Posted on 04 December 2009

87800829Jess was on NBC Nightly News last night commenting as the Global Ambassador for the Dove Self-Esteem Fund on the uproar that is taking place in France over airbrushed pictures. French parliament member Andrea Boyer, a mother of two teenage daughters wants France to enforce a law that would make magazines, advertisers, and photographers put a warning label on every severely enhanced photo. She thinks that the airbrushing and retouching that most of us see everyday in the images we absorb are just way too unrealistic and are creating an unattainable version of beauty around the world. This pressure to match the images we see in the media every day is causing major psychological damage to our young women and men who are influenced greatly by the barrage of images coming their way. So France wants to put a warning label on images. And why not? We put warning labels on music, video games, movies and TV that have violence, nudity and profane language so that we consumers are given a choice whether or not to expose ourselves to the content.  Should the US follow France’s lead?

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