Have a body. Take it to the beach This is the original Protein World ad. And this is one of a number of re-faced images. You guessed it, I like the second one much better. Really enjoying seeing the creative ways women around the world are messing with the original ad. Also love the slogan […]
Fat talk perpetuates and normalises body shame Rebecca Guzelian How does it make you feel when someone close to you tells you they feel fat? As a woman in my mid-20s, this is something I experience every day – from my friends, family and others around me. And now, I have to see it on […]
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 […]
12 y.o ‘Reader of the month’, 13 y.o model finalists… Girl Mag Watch October 2012 Reading the October issue (yes, I know, just scraping this review in in time) of Girlfriend, I found myself checking the front cover to make sure I’d picked up Girlfriend and not Dolly. I’m wondering if perhaps Girlfriend is moving […]
Cleo Magazine: Stop digitally altering images to change appearances #RealGirlsCleo Following a US teenager’s successful petition calling on 17 Magazine to publish one unaltered photo spread per month, Melbourne woman Jessica Barlow has created a petition calling on Australian Cleo Magazine to do the same. The petition reads: Reality is beautiful. Stop using Photoshop to […]
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 […]
“A woman will see this as a representative of herself and her self-worth” Have come across some great blog posts on the stuff that matters here at MTR and I thought you should see them too. Opt 4 has perfectly captured the way objectification of women and girls is harful to them. And there’s some […]
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 […]
I’m very pleased to be speaking here today on this historic occasion. It has been customary for the west to bemoan and critique the appalling forms of violence practiced against girls and women in the rest of the world – FGM, rape as a tactic of war, forced marriage. In this focus what has been […]
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg and MTR discuss on Sunrise A UK survey, commissioned by UK charity YWCA Central, has found half of all girls and a third of boys are obsessed with body image. According to a report in the Daily Mail this week, children are willing to take extreme measures to get a perfect body or […]
Because children don’t already feel bad about themselves enough, there’s a new book just about to be released titled Maggie Goes On a Diet. I asked Collective Shout colleague, psychotherapist and managing director of BodyMatters Australasia Lydia Jade Turner, for her views. Written by self-proclaimed “obesity expert” Paul M. Kramer, Maggie Goes On a Diet […]
Invest in a resource to help stop the global trade in body dissatisfaction Filmmaker Elena Rossini has written asking my support for a fundraising effort for a new film about the marketing of unrealistic and unattainable beauty ideals to women. She asked me to let you know about the plans for the film and seek donations to […]
