odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts
odf posted Fri, 27 February 2009 at 6:55 AM
Well, I guess the difference is that the ideal human shape used to be something that lived pretty firmly in our heads. An abstract concept that we compared our potential mates - or more generally our fellow humans - with. But now, thanks to CGI and hardcore photoshopping, we see those ideals wherever we look. And I'm a bit concerned that we're starting to perceive the ideal as the real thing and the actual people around us as flawed.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.