Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Joint Committee On Health
Eating Disorders: Bodywhys
Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I wish to follow up on a point made by Deputy Kenny around social media and how people are portrayed including photoshopping and filters giving someone an unrealistic image. If I take a photograph with my camera it automatically puts on a filter unless I take it off. I am someone who would say "Let us not go there". I like to get that reinforcement, as everybody does, and I can take it or leave it, but not everyone can. They see this as a reality of what is out there.
Is enough being done and can we do more to challenge the wrong images being put out there? They are not reality, basically.
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