Recently I have had to make a tough decision....
My boyfriend was asked to submit his photos to a magazine, and a bunch of what he submitted was images of me. The magazine loves his work, but asked if he coulkd remove my scars. So he left the decision to me.....
I did some online investigating with Amelia and found that the magazine wants to 'represent woman as art instead of objectifying them', which is the most over used cliche in nude photography, but whatever......
So I think about it.... it is my opinion that if that were their true goal they would in fact leave my scars in, as it is greatly objectifying me to change my physical being to better suit their tastes.......
I am aggrivated on so many levels.
Why does 'mainstream' media need to make believe that people don't have scars? I have met SO MANY people online that felt ashamed of their scars and hid them under long sleeves and later became liberated by how open I was about mine and for the first time were able to show theirs unashamedly. It is the fact that they remove such things to remain unoffensive that so many people have image issues.
I cannot decide what to do, as I don't want to be a pain in the ass and I know my BF is super excited to get published. But at the same time I don't want to cave in and say 'OK remove my scars, just keep my name in there' and then come to find when the magazine prints that they exclude my name. I mean why wouldn't they? It is SCAR 13! What could be more offensive to people offended by, um, scars???
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