Touched Up Images
My husband thought I might be interested in this example of an Ann Taylor model’s picture both before and after it’s been touched-up.
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Girls Puberty Age Drops?
As the parent of an 8-year-old girl, this one was unsettling.
Perception is Everything
We’ve long worried about overweight adolescent girls and depression.
The Right Kind of Peer Pressure for Girls
My husband is brilliant. And he reads a lot. He recently sent me this Slate article on peer pressure – the right kind of peer pressure.
Mean Girls?
An op-ed piece in the NY Times last week from sociologist Michael Males has caught some attention and kick-back related to this question: Are teen girls today more or less mean than in the past?
Gaming Violence Linked to Real-Life Agression
The debate has swirled for years about whether more exposure to on-screen violence leads to more real-life violence and aggression.
Unattainable Beauty
Newsweek has put together a photo gallery of “The decade’s most egregious retouching scandals,” complete with detail notes. The short summary on the title page should be enough to cause us to catch our breath and remember who we are…
Gaming Numbers
Brad Griffin, our FYI Associate Director, forwarded me this creatively done short summary of interesting stats on gaming.
Coming Out in Middle School
If you didn’t see the article in last week’s NY Times school issue titled “Coming Out in Middle School,” you should give it a read.
New Press on Girls and Image
I try to keep track of news on youth in the media, and maybe it’s just me, but I’ve noticed recently a bit more press on girls and image-related issues than usual. Over the past couple of years we’ve written…