WHEN A CLEAR CUT CASE OF BLURRING OUT PROBLEMS BECOMES A PROBLEM

Playboy magazine has made an industry out of airbrush techniques. Softer images of Playboy models have kept the fantasy alive for generations of lonely young males who buy the magazine for the articles and a couple of other reasons.

It all seemed harmless enough to most of us who are familiar with the famous magazine.

We were highly unlikely candidates to be able to compare fact with fantasy. For one thing, we leaned toward the fantasy of the perfect air-brushed models.

Secondly, we were never going to have an actual one on one opportunity to compare fantasy to reality in the matter of unclad Playboy models.

But we as a happy male fan base were never the problem.  

 

The problem is today's computer-altered celebrities that go from 30 lbs over their ideal weight to cover girls with Barbie doll proportions. There is a movement afoot to put warning labels on magazine covers that distort the reality of our celebrities' actual physiques. It's kind of a truth in advertising movement that hopes to eliminate massive insecurities in young and impressionable female readers.

The Australian Youth Minister wants its fashion magazines to disclose when they shrink waistlines and put the extra inches on the models' legs. Apparently they want to make sure that young Australian women are not duped into the misconception that famous people look like the lean and leggy blue people in Avatar- without the blue part.

This whole issue seems like a make-work project for a bored Australian government minister. Either that or Australian kids are not real bright, plus they must be incredibly insecure to not connect the dots on magazine cover girls and real life. They would have to encounter a real skinny human without blemishes, moles or even pores to buy into the magazine cover look.

Most teenaged guys will mourn the passing of airbrushed models, but fortunately they will be able to re-brush them in the fantasy or dream regions of their brains.

And believe me, that covers a lot of territory inside a young guy's noggin.