Photoshop has become synonymous with unrealistic body image, almost a metonym for the lack of body diversity in magazines and on billboards. Crucial parts of the female anatomy are cropped away using Photoshop, and we point our pitchforks, gasping, This! This sloppy editing job is the entire problem!

That doesnt not make sense. Photoshopping womens bodies in ads or cover stories or Instagrams is dishonest . It usually involves taking an already insanely attractive celebrity and making her measurements even more unattainable for us mere humans.

Thats obvious, but, like, 1) thats not Photoshops entire purpose. Photoshop is also used to make mountains look more majestic and to create images of Paula Deen riding things . And 2) the more sinister, thigh-gap-shaving use of Photoshop is just a symptom of the disgusting, reductive, body-shaming, diversity-lacking nonsense that defines our culture.

Blaming the whole thing on Photoshop is like saying, I cannot believe this sore throat keeps on giving me the flu.

Because of this fallacy (and its aggressive perpetuation via fraught headlines including the world "problem"), we tend to lose sight of the overarching issue that Photoshop is a part of, and how deeply it is ingrained in the images with which we are bombarded.

Consider the way the rejection of Photoshop fits into this discussion. Recently, some famous ladies have refused to be Photoshopped. Emma Roberts did an un-retouched campaign for Aerie , which is just so courageous of her. I mean, can you even imagine bearing your ridiculously good-looking, tiny, white self in pretty underwear for all to see? Its all so raw. Especially the airbrushed-in kittens.

Kate Winslet also refused to be Photoshopped in a contract with LOral . Thats maybe a bit more admirable, because Kate Winslet is 40, and, well, ageism . Still, these are both really, really gorgeous famous women. And theres something about someone as stupidly attractive as Emma Roberts not being Photoshopped that only perpetuates the problem. Emma Roberts doesnt need a thigh-gap cut out with an eraser because she already has one.