Re: what do you hate? -- pounds and inches

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Re: what do you hate?

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lara and jane

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Date Posted: 13:34:12 09/22/05 Thu
In reply to: lara and jane 's message, "what do you hate?" on 18:07:47 09/21/05 Wed

here's something hopeful:
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/index2.asp

lara

>Jane and I thought this would be therapeutic...
>
>Help us make a list, identifying all the things in
>society and the media that annoy the hell out of us
>for the negative messages they embody. Just post what
>you'd like to change, and then we could try to analyze
>what message these things send us about ourselves and
>women in general.
>
>1.) scales are a horrible thing (Jane--Weight is not a
>measure of "fatness" but of so many factors: water,
>hormones, muscle, bones, bowel movements or lack there
>of )
>
>2.) size 0 jeans should NOT exist (Lara--The size just
>feeds and enables distorted body images. What do the
>people behind the clothing lines think-that there are
>people wearing a size 0 that are not anorexic? come
>on.)

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