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Archive | Body Image

18 December 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Go! Go! Sports Girls! Review

I’m pretty sensitive about body image messages in the media.  I feel like everything is oversexualized for females of all ages… and that doesn’t mean just adult women.  Little girls are being bombarded with messages as well.  Toy manufacturers are making toys that should be seemingly innocuous have a sexual tone to them and that [...]

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31 October 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Were These Ads for Real?

A friend sent me these in an email and I thought they were kind of hilarious, but also kind of sad. And then there are the ads about men vs. women roles: And then there are the weight-related ones, which kind of surprised me.  I knew that the media has reached a point that has [...]

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10 October 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Embrace: Legs

I’m following in the path of Emilie‘s Embrace:Me movement and writing a post about a part of me that I need to embrace and accept… my legs. I’ve always felt rather negatively about my legs… they’re too short, they’re too thick, they’re ugly… True, my legs are not at all like a supermodels’ legs… but [...]

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