You asked why I don't, I said why I don't.
Bamba said:
Obviously any picture has the possibility of being photoshopped or whatever it may be, but does that really matter?
It matters a great deal.
We live in an age where the standards of beauty that get pushed on us by the entertainment industry are
literally impossible. Photos are constantly retouched. The only way to reasonably expect that a photo hasn't been retouched is to look at candid snap photos, which is creepy in an entirely different way.
Check out Photoshop Disasters [http://www.psdisasters.com/] sometime. It's amazing just how much
bad photo-editing gets done for professional products. But what's even more amazing is how trained we are to not notice it. If you don't look around you with a very critical eye these kinds of things can easily fly under your radar.
We could talk about how bad this is for the self-image of ordinary women, or how bad this is for heterosexual men because it creates standards they can't possibly ever achieve, but I think the best reason is far more direct. We just spent several pages with a great deal of men talking about how they prefer natural looks with minimal makeup. To turn around then and post photos of almost-certainly photoshopped celebrities as feminine beauty ideals would be the rankest of hypocrisies.