Author: Bruce Lyman
Thanks for reading. This blog is an opportunity for me to capture some of the diversity of my writing interests. My muse tend to appear on my shoulder as I board an international flight although not all of my writing is inspired by travel and foreign places. These blogs have been the basis of a novel (Flowers of Baghdad) but there are a few other writing projects in progress besides. Please feel free to leave a comment. Or two.
Interesting but we have been manipulating images since before women were wearing corsets. Thousands of years ago tribes delineated themselves by the way they made themselves up, often using scaring and other permanent enhancements, in pursuit of their idea of ‘beauty’.
Is what we do worse? Probably at at a psychological level it is, but lets not kid ourselves that manipulating a women’s image to match an unrealistic view of perfection is something new; it isn’t.
Hi Richard – you are probably right. After all, did not Ester spend a year getting prepped with the makeup and clothes for the beauty pageant of the king? (Those Iraqi’s always get the pretty girls!) Trouble is the imagery today is so pervasive – even more so than when I was travelling to school on the Collingwood line and having my eye distracted by a Malboro cigarette billboard with a bikini clad inhaler!