Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror?
Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard to make each of us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement. Print ads and television commercials reduce us to body parts — lips, legs, breasts — airbrushed and touched up to meet impossible standards.
TV shows tell women and teenage girls that cosmetic surgery is good for self-esteem. Is it any wonder that more than 80% of fourth-grade girls have been on some form of fad diet?
Women and girls spend billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, fashion, magazines and diet aids. These industries can't use negative images to sell their products without our assistance.
Together, we can fight back
http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity
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7 comments:
shutttttttttttt up!
My headache persists :(
HATE YA!
Shoo, go away u silly annony mouses
i posted such a beautiful post
and u gott nutting to say
cant u guys read?
This is sheer crap!
And i dont believe it!
They just wanna sell their products and they dont realise wht effect can their silly advertisements have on people. This can be related to one of michelle's posts as well!
It's true...what ever happened to love me for me?
so absolutely true... i know 15 year old gals going to the parlour every week... they r so engrossed in their external beauty that i feel they dont realise theres something called internal beauty too...
absolute waste...
,Racism does exist in France -- it exists everywhere. In fact we were called 'Madrasis' and lived through a more virulent form of racism in Delhi where I was a kid. We were subjected to unwelcome remarks on our food habits, our way of living and dressing.,
In some ways this was more distressing than what I lived in France as an adult. Again Indians have very little lessons to teach the others -- as in India racism is also institutionalised in the form of the caste system.
When I talk of Marxism, I do not think of the kind that existed in Eastern Europe -- I know what it means because my wife is Polish and I have met a few Soviet dissidents who have been in the gulags (labour camps).
I am thinking of a world where people live in harmony and partake in all the wealth of the world without one community exploiting the other and without any speculation and without wars with people dying to show that their god is stronger than the enemy's god.
Give this a thought.
Professor Narayanaswami Ranganathan
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