impossible standards of beauty

It is bad enough that all women have to compete against a handful of very beautiful women splashed over every billboard, magazine cover and advertisement in those magazines and TV, it turns out that they have had to compete against figments of imagination masquerading as photos.
http://www.glennferon.com/portfolio1/index.html

(Click on a photo and then hover your mouse over the resulting photo to see before/after.)

Oddly, I find most of the unretouched pictures more attractive. I wonder if others feel the same way, and if they do, whether media strangleholders will ever get the message that people like people, not imaginary plastic dolls.