but isn't this the same thing as what makeup and exercise and tailoring is supposed to do?

Are you under the deluded assumption that Lena Dunham or the legions of women and girls who read Vogue need your protection? That somehow we are so dumb that we don't know that fashion magazines aren't real? Are you really so concerned with this that you thought "lets spend 10K on reminding people that Lena Dunham is…

I agree with the huffpo blog post. You'd never offer 10k for the unretouched pics of celebrities like Gwynneth, Salma or Kristen. You are not empowering anyone. You simply singled her out because the way she looks.

It's possible to "love yourself just the way [you] are" and also want some really flattering—-even touched-up—-portraits taken. They aren't mutually exclusive. But thanks for yet again proving that Jezebel's beliefs about what other people should find attractive or acceptable or affirming should trump their own. You…

Seriously what was the fucking point of this?! Vogue is a fashion magazine that business model is to display unrealistic images of women to the readership that wants to see unrealistic images of women. Lena Dunham is a talented person who is a champion of body image and proudly displays herself flaws and all in her…

As a professional photographer I can say this is being blown way out of proportion!

This.

Can we stop pretending this girl is attractive?

This is so much more anti-feminist than the Vogue retouching it is incredible. It is exactly why women sometimes say other women will throw them to the wolves.

I am in no way offended by the retouching of that boob situation.

Honestly? Let's imagine that I paid personally for a set of photographs of myself. All the minor alterations done here I'd want done to myself. In particular, the image of her sitting on the edge of the tub shows a garish angle to her boobs. The cut-and-paste is a little more modest and nicer looking. Not that showing…

You know, I don't find this all that objectionable, as far as retouching usually goes. Did they actually pay $10,000 to get ahold of these?

How proud of yourselves do you feel right now? Now that you've yet again dragged an actress vilified for not fitting industry standards through the mud? Now that you've proven to yourselves (everyone who reads this site already knew!) that magazines like skinnier, taller people? Now that you've realized that GASP YES…

Fuck you, Jezebel. You're cyber-bullying Lena Dunham but pretending to be doing women everywhere a favour. Congratulations on becoming a faux-feminist Tea Party.

In the humanities, translations can matter. The old public domain translations that are readily available as inexpensive ebooks vary widely in quality, and in any case may not correspond with those being used by the professor. Then again, I have never come across a Kindle book that indicates the hard-pagination of…

One of the great things about the Kindle ecosystem is that you can access your books on any device—on the web, via their desktop app, their Android and iOS apps, and of course on the e-ink Kindle. So the answer is—all of the above, but you're right, the black and white reader wouldn't be ideal for some textbooks.

Umm here's how I do it. I summarize everything I need to study and type it into a word document. Print it. And go outside to study. I'll take long circling walks in a quiet neighborhood. Spanning 5-8 hours at a time, before I am done revising for an exam.

I'm fairly certain it's legal everywhere in Canada for a woman to be topless in any public space. Basically, if a man can be topless there, so can a woman. It's just too cold here to exercise this freedom.

...Sorry guys. Here I'm probably admitting that I am a bad person, but I don't feel sorry for her. I just don't.