young girls

Pinkification

There's been," says Abi Moore, a 38-year-old freelance television producer, "a wholesale pinkification of girls. It's everywhere; you can't escape it. And it needs to change. It sells children a lie – that there's only one way to be a 'proper girl' – and it sets them on a journey, at a very, very early [...]

Teenager leads successful petition to portray girls truthfully in teen magazines

Facing pressure from teen girls demanding truthful images of young women, Seventeen magazine has vowed to "celebrate every kind of beauty" and feature only photographs of real girls and models who are healthy.  Editor-in-chief Ann Shoket made the announcement in her editor's letter in the August issue, and her note marks a major triumph for [...]

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