When I remember way back to when I was in high school, my girlfriends and I
were all convinced we were fat and were very paranoid about what we ate. I
was trying to survive all day on a couple of cans of Tab and a candy bar.
And none of us had any sort of a weight problem. I was extremely slim and I
wish I would have been able to enjoy it back then. And even now that I'm
fast approaching 40 and gaining weight, although I am not close to having a
weight problem, I'm beating myself up about it. I try not to. I try to have
my goal to be healthy, not skinny, but every time I zip up my ever
tightening jeans, I berate myself. Unless it really is my dryer that is
shrinking them. :)
Jill
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> From: Kimberly & Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Study: Magazines hurt girls' images
> Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 9:50 AM
>
> I read Shape Magazine and Self Magazine. Shape is a women's health
magazine
> which has a lot of helpful information, nutrition tips, exercise ideas,
> etc. However the magazines pictures of women are all models or at least
> they look like them. So if I were a young teenage girl looking at this
> magazine, I would be given the notion that I am not healthy unless I look
> like these models.
> The magazines I did read while growing up, Teen, Seventeen, etc. were
even
> worse! I think those mags are very bad for young women. They take their
> idea of beauty, of wellness and of what is the "norm" for teen girls and
> apply that to their readers, many of whom do not look like those models.
So
> you have thousands of healthy beautiful young girls who are walking
around
> with this image of who they should be, what they should look like, how
they
> should act to "get that boy" and being very unhappy with who they really
> are. And as far as I have read or know about, these mags do not feel
> responsible for the images they create for young teens. I heard one
> magazine person-Vogue or Glamour I think-state that teens should know the
> difference between what they see in mags and what they see in reality. Of
> course, it's not the mag's fault, it's just those silly impressionable
> teenagers. Oh please.
>
> Just my opinion,
> kimberly
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> > From: MISS APRIL D CLINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Study: Magazines hurt girls' images
> > Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 10:04 PM
> >
> > Hi, I have never replied to this list but when I read the message
> > about magazine article's that hurt young women, it sparked my memeory.
> > Right now I am in a Women's Studies class at NAU, Flagstaff, AZ.
> > We just finished discussing how all types of advertisements disploit
> > women. Either by sexual reference or by making the younger
> > generations seem older which induces the child molestation rate. In
> > class we watched a Video called "Killing us Softly". I never
> > realized how women are reduced down to objects. We also discussed
> > the Barbie Doll effect and how the all generations of women are
> > affected by this. Disploitation of women are seen everywhere (videos,
> > books, ads, etc..) and so many people don't even recognize it
> > because it seems normal to the majority of the population.
> >
> > Teri
