In her article Rosen explains how anyone with a camera and Photoshop has power in today's society. Rosen goes on to say that “the power of the image has been diluted” (355); what Rosen means is that the technologies for altering an image are so inexpensive that anyone can do it. Images have become overly simplified: anyone with a camera and editing software can produce an image and upload it anywhere or even broadcast it on television. Hymowitz would support Rosen's thesis by saying how these images produced by people destroy both a woman's privacy and personal identity. Additionally, Hymowitz would talk about how altered images make women disposable. The media can alter these images to get a headline and then simply get rid of the image without realizing the damage they have caused. Hymowitz also discusses how the media gets “details that only their Brazilian waxers should know” (Hymowitz 235); the media then puts it in magazines and even on television. Hymowitz argues that it's overexposure like this that ruins women's privacy. Rosen would support this by saying that the reason women are overexposed is because anyone can produce these images and put them wherever they want. Hymowitz would point out that the average member of society has the power to ruin a woman's
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