Even snapchat is telling women how they should look?

     Now and days, more and more teenagers and adults are using the app "Snapchat". In the past year or months, snapchat decided they needed to add another aspect to their app to top some of the other photo apps that were becoming a big deal. They added filters, each one different and some changing on the daily. These filters include the dog face, face swaps, a face that puts a flower crown on you, the filter that ads a blue tone, a filter that makes you have makeup that is being cried off on, a face that makes you frown, and one that makes you look like a ghost (there have been many more that have been switched off). Although these are comical filters to use, what are some of the messages being shown?
     Some of these filters, including the dog, flower crown and tinted blue filter create a different face shape for the person using it. If you look closely, the filter slims your nose down, smooths your skin, makes your eyes larger, and gives you a slimmer, sharper jaw line. (The top photo is Emily before any effects, the next two are with effects.) These filters, also, have become the most popular and are the only ones that have lasted for a long period of time. They are, in a way, creating a standard for what women need to look like to be beautiful. Snapchat is saying if you use this filter to give you a small nose, clear skin and slim face that you will become "cuter" to send and post more selfies. But, there is somehow another catch to these filters (especially the dog filter). They are now known as the "hoe" filters. Suddenly, if you post pictures using these filters or send them you become a hoe, i mean c'mon. Snapchat is telling you that these filters you are prettier but other people call you a "hoe"? This just shows how sad our society and involvement with media has become.
     Another app, which was mentioned in class, that is typically used is FaceTune. This app can smooth your skin, change the shape of your body (make your stomach smaller or your butt bigger), make your hair softer, change your eyes, whiten your teeth, patch blotchy areas in a photo, brighten a photo, and do nearly anything to completely change the original picture. It is mostly saddening because a large percentage of teenage girls use this app. Pictures on instagram and twitter can be posted looking nearly nothing like the original photo. There is also an app similar to this one known as "Perfect365" which is just sending the message that you can not be perfect until you completely edit your body and face down. This is just another example showing how media has caused women to create these unrealistic standards for themselves that are naturally impossible to reach.