For this week's passages, I chose the following two:
"You can barely recognize yourself with the amount of digital correction. They've taken out your knuckles and given you baby hands.The muscular calves that you are generally very proud of are slimmed to the bone (141)."
"So my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even the really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: 'Is this person in between me and what I want to do?' (130)."
I enjoyed both of these passages because they speak directly to the women in life on huge issues: Photoshop and gender inequality. Fey puts her voice out there to be heard and she definitely makes it happen. I loved how easy it is to stop and actually question myself on what we consider every day things in the United States.
-Madison
I too like the way she addressed Photoshopping. She talks about how sometimes it's okay for someone to make you look like you on your best day ever, but you still look like you. However, when they change thing that you think are okay about yourself, is when a line is crossed. When it comes to the other quote, I think her advice here is something to live by and spans even further than all the things she says. You need to constantly ask yourself when you're getting worked up if it is over something worth the emotional and physical time and effort or if you should just let it go.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy these passages too, especially the line "'Is this person in between me and what I want to do?'" I think that this really rings true with any woman in the workplace, and encourages them to really go for what they want, no matter what other people tell them. I also think that the baby hands and calves serve as a nice juxtaposition. Similar to what Katie said, there is a difference between smoothing out wrinkles on your hands, and editing qualities that you are proud of, or like about yourself. I think that magazines should talk to whoever they are photographing, to go over what they will be photoshopping, and whether they want the edits or not.
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