It’s time for a Love Your Mind campaign I ASKED a group of Year 12 female students what message they would like me to deliver on their behalf to an advertising conference I was about to address. Their profound and carefully worded message? You suck. Not exactly poetic. But they were tired of the way […]
Inspiring young women, competitive eating, runaways, how alcohol and smoking harm girls’ skins: some helpful articles in Dolly November 2012 Two issues of Dolly in a row (last one here) about which I’ve found some positive things to say. Perhaps it’s time for Generation Next to find a new reviewer? ‘Dolly All Stars: Introducing this […]
By Laura Bates | July 5, 2012 This week, Seventeen magazine promised to publish un-photoshopped images of real girls, finally responding to 14-year-old SPARK activist Julia Bluhm’s campaign. Such pressure must continue argues author Laura Bates. Last week, two editions of Now magazine appeared on newsstands in the UK. The weekly issue featured a dramatic […]
Last week the WA state government, The Heart Foundation and The Cancer Council launched a series of anti-obesity ads in the state of WA. The ads employ scare tactics in a bid to pressure viewers into adopting a slimmer waistline. Using graphic imagery designed to provoke disgust towards fat while labelling fat ‘toxic,’ the ads […]
For women my generation who see a massive magazine heading “The Big O” and think it’s about Roy Orbison, you probably won’t want to read further. The “Big O” in this case refers to orgasm – in fact “your giggle-free guide to orgasms.” Although if your daughter is a 13-year-old reader of Girlfriend (GF has […]
‘It was a liberating act to throw them away: I had been held captive’ I sat near a girl and her mum in the coffee shop recently. She would have been 10, 12 at most. She had on wedge shoes, tight leggings, a handbag, and flicked her long, blonde hair around like a cast member […]
Ambiguous declaration raises more questions Jane Hollier After years of being slammed with accusations that they are projecting unrealistic body image ideals onto women, Vogue magazine has finally decided to do something about it. The 19 editors of the magazines around the globe have collectively made a pact that has the fashion industry giving them […]
Connecting beauty and self-denial: a dangerous approach to health and fitness Eating disorder experts are questioning an image on Lorna Jane’s Facebook of a young woman in exercise gear and with no body fat aside the wording: “Nothing tastes as good as fit feels”. The original slogan is a motto supermodel Kate Moss said in an […]
We are tricked into thinking that women on magazine covers and on TV naturally look like this in real life…we need to fight back! By Miriam Nassif Name is Miriam Nassif and I am 14 years-old so I completely understand what it like to be a teenage girl growing up in our modern day world […]
‘I was never as happy or as sure of myself after that. It was just too big of a let-down, because it wasn’t a rejection from a high school bully, it was a rejection from ‘the experts’, from people with professional opinion, and it was a closing of doors in my face from a glamorous […]
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Sunday Herald Sun, March 25, 2012 This month at Melbourne Westfield Fountain Gate, Elodie Russell beat 500 other teens to be named Victorian state finalist in the new Dolly Model Search. The Geelong student and 500 other girls competed in the model search resurrected after 10 years. Elodie is 14. But girls as young as […]
