Ad airbrushing

After reading the article on the Ralph Lauren advertisement I feel I must agree to some extent that some advertisements are pushing things too far. It's true that women today feel a lot of pressure to live up to the women presented by media. Airbrushed images they make models appear to have perfect figures only create an unnatural belief that women feel they must live up to in order to be considered beautiful by society. This in turn affects not only a woman's self esteem, but can have physical affects as well such as unhealthy crash diets.

I see nothing wrong with a few minor touch ups on a photo: red eye, a face blemish here, maybe even adjusting eye color, however this appears to be one of those scenarios where you give an inch and they'll take a few miles. If that's going to be the case, I can't help but feel photos should not be airbrushed.