I heard the news of this commercial Yoplait commercial that was pulled after receiving pressure from the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) from several people and finally had a chance to see it...
Read More →Forget the familiar A, B and C on your child’s report card — the new letters to look out for could be B, M and I. Sending students home with a “weight grade”...
Read More →After years of believing that we should be waxing, shaving and douching our vaginas to make them more pleasant and attractive, it appears many women are now buying into the fact that their...
Read More →As much as we love being black, we can’t pretend that we’re a people without flaws. One of the deepest, nastiest burdens we carry is our attitude about skin color. The dismissal or...
Read More →We’ve seen some heavily airbrushed celebs in ads and retouched models on websites, but the Gap’s representation of women might be the scariest. A Boing-Boing writer’s wife took a photo of a mannequin...
Read More →One researcher has found something that should surprise nobody: women want to buy clothes more if they see them on models who look like them. Will advertisers actually take notice? According to the...
Read More →MILLIONS of women suffer from such a negative body image they refuse to leave the house or go to work, a study claimed. They may feel too fat or too ugly and this...
Read More →There’s no such thing as a real man. And that’s OK. You’ve almost certainly heard feminist rants about impossible cultural ideals of femininity: how standards of femininity are so narrow and rigid they’re...
Read More →Photoshopping is used in ads and on magazine covers to make models more “beautiful,” which often means “skinnier.” The American Medical Association says the practice needs to get reined in. “Exposure to media-propagated...
Read More →(Article written by Lisa Bloom) I went to a dinner party at a friend’s home last weekend, and met her five-year-old daughter for the first time. Little Maya was all curly brown hair,...
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