SIGN THE PETITION

          The usage of body editor apps to distort one's own body image both instills and perpetuates self-objectification and the sexualized narrative of the female body. Exposure to post-edit pictures goes as far as to distort society's reality of what a female body naturally looks like because mass media and social media convince viewers that such representations are the real deal without pre-edit pictures available to prove otherwise. 

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          For the sake of all women and girls, it would be beneficial to acknowledge when viewers are in the presence of edited pictures [made with body editor apps] to encourage authenticity instead of an unrealistic media-idealistic version. There are already proven consequences of the damage that media-ideal physical standards can cause and yet there has been a surge in body editor applications and the amount of people that use it, in which a surge of health issues is sure to follow because usage of these apps only help to reinforce society’s media-ideal of female physical appearance standards.