Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Hypocrisy

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 […]

Misogynistic ads and the oxygen of publicity

In a week in which I was described as everything from ugly, to jealous, to Hitler (I’m sure Nazi is just around the corner), and in which my fellow activists were also attacked for our campaign against the Lingerie Football League, some words of wisdom from the Women’s Media Center. Couldn’t have put it better […]