Resources
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Eating Disorders & Body Image
National Eating Disorders Association
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Eating Disorders & Body Image
National Eating Disorders Association
Education/Awareness: Young Girls and Eating Disorders:
Media & Advertising Deliberately Makes You Hate Your Body So You'll Buy Their Products ! It's a SCAM !
The War on Women:
Watch the Feminist Film, "Killing Us Softly"
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Dr. Jean Kilbourne's outstanding documentary explores how sexist, women-hating media advertising deliberately promotes impossible beauty standards, because they want girls and women to hate their bodies and to hate themselves , so you'll buy their products -- if you think you're not pretty enough or thin enough, then you'll buy their diet pills, makeup, wrinkle creams, hair dyes, exercise DVD's, purchase cosmetic surgery like breast jobs, liposuction, lip injections, facelifts, and all that crap ! It's a total SCAM !
The beauty industry and the media sends women and girls the message that our only worth and value is how we look -- and they deliberately set unattainable beauty standards in order to make women and girls feel insecure and bad about ourselves and hate how we look. Why? So they can get us to buy their stupid products !
The film also explains how every single photo in fashion magazines and online photos are faked (the photos aren't real, they're fake photos) through the use of computers, Photo-shopping and airbrushing -- yet women are judging themselves against these fake photos -- don't believe the hype ! The crushing media pressure to look "perfect" can lead to eating disorders in women and young girls. Also discusses how young girls are sexualized in media advertising, and how sexist ads also reinforce rigid gender stereotypes and gender roles for women.
Media & Advertising Deliberately Makes You Hate Your Body So You'll Buy Their Products ! It's a SCAM !
The War on Women:
Watch the Feminist Film, "Killing Us Softly"
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Dr. Jean Kilbourne's outstanding documentary explores how sexist, women-hating media advertising deliberately promotes impossible beauty standards, because they want girls and women to hate their bodies and to hate themselves , so you'll buy their products -- if you think you're not pretty enough or thin enough, then you'll buy their diet pills, makeup, wrinkle creams, hair dyes, exercise DVD's, purchase cosmetic surgery like breast jobs, liposuction, lip injections, facelifts, and all that crap ! It's a total SCAM !
The beauty industry and the media sends women and girls the message that our only worth and value is how we look -- and they deliberately set unattainable beauty standards in order to make women and girls feel insecure and bad about ourselves and hate how we look. Why? So they can get us to buy their stupid products !
The film also explains how every single photo in fashion magazines and online photos are faked (the photos aren't real, they're fake photos) through the use of computers, Photo-shopping and airbrushing -- yet women are judging themselves against these fake photos -- don't believe the hype ! The crushing media pressure to look "perfect" can lead to eating disorders in women and young girls. Also discusses how young girls are sexualized in media advertising, and how sexist ads also reinforce rigid gender stereotypes and gender roles for women.
Eating Disorders & Young Girls / Negative Body Image |
Laci Green Talks About How Advertising & Media Deliberately Make You Feel Bad About Your Body to Make Money/Sell Stuff |
A Girl of Normal Weight Hates Herself for Being "Fat"
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Many Girls Believe They're Only Loveable if They're THIN
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Girls Talk About Pressure to Be Thin and Pretty & Eating Disorders/Body Image
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The Media Assault on Girls' Body Image
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All Those Photos You See in Magazines are FAKE !
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WithThis Crushing Pressure to Look Perfect, It's No Surprise Girls Develop Eating Disorders & Have Low Self Esteem. Remember: Media Ads Deliberately Make You Feel Bad About Yourself & Hate Your Body So You'll Buy Their Products ! |
Eating Disorders Take Over Girls' Lives - Media Makes Us Believe Our Self-Worth & Value Depends On Being Thin - Remember: This is the LIE Media Ads Tell You, to Sell Stuff |
Stop Anorexia - Girls Are Dying of Eating Disorders
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Read "The Beauty Myth !"
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How the Focus on Beauty is Actually a Political Tool Used to Keep Women From Gaining Political Power
The Beauty Myth, by the brilliant feminist, Naomi Wolf, explains how the focus on women's and girls' looks as a measure of our worth and the crushing social pressure to "look beautiful" (the "beauty myth") is used as a political tool to keep women from gaining power in society. The beauty myth is used as a method of social control of women.
The beauty myth is a form of social control which is just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty." Those in power use the "beauty myth" to keep women down politically. By shattering women's self-esteem though this focus on beauty, (and making sure the standard of beauty is impossible and unattainable, so none of us ever feel thin enough, pretty enough, or good enough) it keeps women distracted and busy chasing this ideal of so-called "beauty." |
National Organization for Women's
Love Your Body Campaign !
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NOW talks about loving the skin you're in, and ways to promote positive body image !
Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard to make us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement.Advertisements reduce us to body parts -- lips, legs, breasts -- airbrushed, Photo-shopped, and fake photos set women and girls up for impossible standards of beauty. Is it any wonder that 80% of U.S. women are unhappy with how they look? Together, we can fight back. Here's list of things you can do to fight the media's assault on girls' self-esteem. |
The ABCs & Ds of Commercial Images of Women: An Online Presentation by NOW
Educate yourself and learn the tricks that the media uses against you !
This presentation by NOW Foundation's Love Your Body Campaign shows how advertisers and the media enforce unrealistic beauty standards. What is the impact of these images on the health and well-being of women and girls, and what can YOU do? |
The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and control us. The Conversation about women happens everywhere, publicly and privately. We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification. Our voices, our personhood, our potential, and our accomplishments are regularly minimized and muted.
The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about ... The insanity has to stop, because as focused on me as it appears to have been, it is about all girls and women. Read more |
Bully Calls Female News Anchor Fat,
News Anchor Destroys Him on Live TV !
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NEWSFLASH: Being a jerk is always a bad idea, but it is an especially bad idea when
a) you have no idea what you're talking about and b) you choose to target someone who
has the ability to completely break down your crap on her very own live show
Operation Beautiful ! Yes, Girl, You're BEAUTIFUL !
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The mission of Operation Beautiful is to post anonymous notes in public places for other people to find.
The point is that WE ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL. You are enough... just the way you are !
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Real Beauty is More Than How You Look !
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4 Year Old Sophia - Beauty Is Not How Skinny You Can Be ! Girls Talk About What Real Beauty Means to Them
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Being Yourself is Beautiful ! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Positive Body Image & Self-Esteem
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