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The Gaussian Blurred Line Of Photoshop In Advertising

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If you feel some vague, latent sense of dissatisfaction with the way all the people around you look, it's possible that you're an unwitting victim of a culture in which digital technology allows for an unprecedented level of retouching, and airbrushing, and actual physical distortion of the human body.
 

In a way, it's profoundly egalitarian. You may not need large breasts and a tiny waist to be a magazine model -- or even a movie star.In another way, of course, it's miserably hierarchical, imposing on us all a set of aesthetic standards that don't exist in nature.

 
I confess I had given roughly zero amount of thought about this topic prior to heading into our show. And I still think, in our society, that there's a murky boundary between permissible expression and damnable deception. So let's talk about where that line is on today's show.

 
You can join the conversation. E-mail colin@wnpr.org or Tweet us @wnprcolin.

Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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