Women have been victims to oppressive structures in our patriarchal society so when they achieve control over the “out-of-control” by using filters then we could say filters do help empower women and the feminist cause (Coy-Dibley 2015).Ī Marxist take on freedom is that there are two types of freedom: In the feminist discourse, Filters give women the opportunity to self-invent their online identity and boost their confidence when they allow women to achieve normative ideals.
With exploratory filters, one can show his/her social quirky side, and with enhancement beauty filters, ‘materializing’ the version of oneself that cannot be achieved in real life (Coy-Dibley 2015). However, with face filters, self-representation has been experimental.įilters give anyone, not just women, the freedom to escape the labels inscribed on their physical bodies and thus give them control over their online image.
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Our visual online identity did not go too far beyond its offline version. We can change the camera angle, the distance from the cam to our faces with a selfie stick or change our facial expressions and poses but it generally did not make a transformative difference. There weren’t many ways to change what you look like in a photo back when filters have not existed. If you’re an Asian girl in an American High school and you wear glasses, there’s a high chance you’ll be grouped under the umbrella category of “Asian smart-ass”. Our appearances may cause your social identity to be identified or misidentified this is painfully true for women. However, our bodies/faces have a public dimension to them. We tend to readily assign individuality to our physical appearance and assume that one’s face represents the concept of ‘one’ exclusively. Is it wrong to say that beauty filters help liberate women from beauty oppression?