Snapchat Law

The type of beauty that the Snapchat promotes seems to be governed by what the general public thinks of beauty. Consequently, the solution to this problem lies in changing how society thinks of beauty. Society and more specifically parents should encourage confidence within the younger generation within their appearance. But, since many young adolescent’s ideals of the body are influenced by the media, some changes in the media itself will be appropriate. To address this problem, France declared a law that any photoshopped images on the cover of the magazine need to come with a warning "photographie retouchée,"or retouched photograph (B.Lee). This law that was similarly implemented in Israel (Lynn), allows the readers of the magazine to identify

I believe a similar law in United States with the retouched photograph warning, like the cigarettes warning label, would add a stigma to images being photoshopped and would emphasize the importance of showing the authentic beauty to the public. Despite the intent of the law, critiques about controlling the photoshopped images could garner from the advertising and fashion industry as it could be a violation of the freedom of press; Donald Downs, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, entertains the thought of implementing a law similar to the one from Israel, “such a law would be in tension with American cultural support for free speech in cases in which the harm is not direct or clear”(Minsberg). Such actions, however, even with the accusations of the said law, proposing over regulations, will lead to more benefits for developing perception of the girls as “two thirds of American girls in the fifth to 12th grades say that magazine pictures influence their image of an ideal body”(Minsberg). Moreover, a more acceptable strategy for this problem can be urging the media to diversify the type of beauty they

After 10 years of this campaign, the initial 23 % of women who felt that were responsible for influencing their own definition of beauty, has increased three times (Neff). The success of the Dove campaign rejects many potential claims of disruption in sales where after the campaign, the sales increased from “$2.5 billion to well over $4 billion” as people wanted to be associated with the brand that trying to make changes in the world (Neff). While these statistics can have bias considering that they were collected from the Dove Campaign itself, the emergence of similar commercials must have positive effect on the sentiments of the youth and their perception of beauty. The increase of commercials like these can encourage the widening of the acceptable beauty standards and deter young individuals from using filters to conform to a restricted concept of beauty. I believe that when the young audience see diverse media personalities, they would come to accept their original