Feb. 1, 2012 “25% of young women 18-34 would rather win America’s Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize..." ..."And 23% would rather lose their ability to read than their figures” opens Lisa Bloom’s THINK: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed Down World... I’ll be interviewing author Lisa Bloom of THINK later this month asking her about 'the other … [Read more...]
The Supermodels, Then and Now + A Chat With Janet Lansbury
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: About Face: The Supermodels Then and Now, ads of 70s and 80s, aging, America the Beautiful documentary, American Apparel, APA, beauty myth, Beauty Redefined, boycott, breast augmentation, Brooke Shields, Celebrity worship, change channel of influence, cover girl culture, Critical-thinking-skills, Dana Moe Halley, Dittos jeans, fame, fashion models, Fashionistas, generation of narcissists, GirlCaught, girls-self-worth, Herbal Essence ad, Janet Lansbury, Lisa Bloom, Mary-McDonough, media mindfulness, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, modeling, objectification, Packaging-Girlhood, Pop culture impact on kids, preteen-self-esteem, price of beauty, sexism, Sexualization, Sexualization & Body Image, So Sexy So Soon, spark change, Sundance, supermodels, Take Back Beauty, teen modeling, Think: Straight Talk for Women, Ugly truth about beauty, Victoria's Secret Models, Vogue Cadeaux
Why Can’t an A-Lister Be An A-Cup? Keira Knightley, Shaping Youth
It’s World Breastfeeding week and ironically, I just prepped my first post over on Eco Child’s Play as a two-parter on breast obsession in media that creates inherent insecurities ‘leaking’ into kids' psyches. In my case, it’s a first-person account (posting here soon) of small-chested self-doubt in an otherwise solid body image when it came to … [Read more...]
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