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fasttense

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4. It's not just at the movies.
Fri May 11, 2012, 07:13 AM
May 2012

And that's the problem. Superman is only in a movie and in stories about him. But girls and women are ALWAYS airbrushed and touched up to look like something they are not. It's very rare to see a normal woman in a magazine, movie, tv, internet and print of all forms.

Hell they don't even pair up fat old men with fat old ladies. They are always putting a pretty young thing as the love interest of a 70 year old man in movies and TV. When they pair up an old man with an appropriately aged woman, it is considered a daring and amazing thing.

In commercials they have 20 somethings pretending to be 60 and advertising wrinkle creams. Even in those commercials they can't bare to put up an image up of an old woman. It is so pervasive.

How do you think this constant taunt by the media makes young girls and women feel? Why do you think anorexia is our hysterical paralysis of Fraud's day and age?

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