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Abby Gardner, Beauty Director of YM Magazine, and Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, also presented at the seventh annual public forum, entitled “Body Image, Culture, and the Media: Shaping the Women of Tomorrow...
Gardner talked about the positive progress made by the teen magazine industry in its portrayal of young women. Congratulating YM’s new editor and chief Christine Taylor’s decision to eliminate dieting articles from the magazine, Gardner said she was happy with the small steps YM has taken to shift the focus away from body image...
However, The Calling never deliberately chased after the fake id club. That was a product of its management acting on the YM blurbs, TRL enthusiasm. The band knew they are being manipulated, but also knew these were the small battles they had to lose in order to accomplish their much larger focus. “To rebel against the game you have to play it, to get some status,” co-songwriter and guitarist Aaron Kamin explained. “You have to pick and choose your battles. Hopefully we can have success and that many more kids...
However, The Calling never deliberately chased after the fake id club. That was a product of its management acting on the YM blurbs, TRL enthusiasm. The band knew they are being manipulated, but also knew these were the small battles they had to lose in order to accomplish their much larger focus. “To rebel against the game you have to play it, to get some status,” co-songwriter and guitarist Aaron Kamin explained. “You have to pick and choose your battles. Hopefully we can have success and that many more kids...
...much of a cop-out as it may seem to blame the media, increasingly overt messages from popular culture have certainly made an impression on young people’s view of sex today. During my high school years, YM and Seventeen magazines were a vital source of information, and they often included special pullout sections revealing the essentials every girl had to know before, during and after the deed. Although these magazines were always careful to mention that virginity was an acceptable option, the constant emphasis on sex stood staunchly in contradiction to such claims. Virgins, after all, were...