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Girl Guides Demand Photoshopped-Images Labelling Law: Bunty Burqa Magazine Out Now

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Girl Guides Demand Photoshopped-Images Labelling Law: Bunty Burqa Magazine Out Now

THE Girl Guides say that airbrushed and photoshopped celebrity photos place “damaging and unrealistic pressureson young women. Such pictures should be labelled with health warning, they argue, to avoid the ladies vying for “unobtainable ideals”.

At a camp in West Yorkshire, around 20,000 Guides are being asked to sign a petition calling for David Cameron to introduce a law forcing magazines to inform readers when photographs have been airbrushed. Other than Readers’ Wives and Motorhome Now, all other magazines will come with picture of a sobbing child and the words:

WARNING: MAGAZINES CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR SELF-ESTEEM.

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Posted: 4th, August 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)