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GirlGAF |OT 2| Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Eve?
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batmandarkknight
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Hihi. My girlfriend at her best. <3 just spreading how proud I am of her. 
i hope this isnt off topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OOTsDxZJI
i hope this isnt off topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OOTsDxZJI
Devolution
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The Anti-Monitor
Banned
Worst part is that it's not surprising at all.
Devolution
Member
I'm so glad I didn't pay attention to girly mags growing up. Others around me did though, hence the reason I got a lot of shit from them.
This is sad... unsurprising, but sad.
I mean, there is eating healthy. That's fine... but otherwise? No, babies.
And fuck you, Seventeen magazine.
Haven't read Seventeen or any magazine but Cosmopolitan, but don't they have those big girl section to improve this image in most mags anyway? You know "Skinny, pear shaped, curvy etc"
batmandarkknight
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Prax
Member
That's really disheartening.
I never paid much attention to those teen girl magazines because I found them too vapid, but it's not like I was unaffected by the rest of the media and my parents bombarding me with similar messages. And then you find out that everything is smoke and mirrors and people expect to live up to fantasy images? It just makes me rage.
To this day, I get annoyed beyond what I think should be a reasonable amount when the topic of fashion, makeup, or dressing up girly comes up, especially when my female friends and family talk about how I should be doing it more and joining them. I know they mean well, but a part of me feels like they want to waste my time and money with bs. >_>
Professor Beef
Banned
"Diet? But you're only 10!"
"But I COULD look 9."
"But I COULD look 9."
Kitsunebaby
Member
Parents can be really hard to deal with. My mother has made a few comments about my weight before, since I'm no longer super skinny. While I personally prefer my body now compared to how I used to look it still feels bad to hear. I just have to remind myself that she's the one with an unhealthy idea about body types and that she used to have an eating disorder. At this point I think I'm the only one in my family who's never dealt with a case of anorexia or bulimia.
I don't mean to play devil's advocate, because I think that that is a great campaign, but as a side issue, and purely one related to statistics and the representation of data, there is a childhood obesity epidemic (is there not?), and correct me if I'm wrong but that is a greater concern, purely from a numbers game point of view, than anorexia or equivalent (is this wrong?). I'm sure a doctor would recommend exercise, and a healthy diet, but if these obese children are counted, I would be, if it were medically relevant, for children dieting (and exercising), than say the alternative.
Regardless, whatever the cause of the diets among children, it is still a worrying trend.
Regardless, whatever the cause of the diets among children, it is still a worrying trend.
Devolution
Member
You don't have to play the isn't X a bigger issue than Y game. Body image issues are of a real concern when you have 10 year olds starving themselves.
Kitsunebaby
Member
I doubt most children really understand nutrition (hell, most adults don't completely get it and there's still much we're unsure of). To most children "dieting" means simply eating less and many of them could end up malnourished. The bigger problem is that the motivation to "diet" for these children does not come from a place of health and concern, it's coming from a place of vanity, judgement, and peer pressure. The mental repercussions of dieting so young are much more worrisome than the physical ones.
Like many 12 year olds, I felt the pressure to look thin and beautiful as well. But for some reason eating less never occurred to me. My parents had a few books about healthy lifestyles, which I read (being the voracious reader that I am, I suppose this is no surprise) and so I began eating more vegetables and exercising regularly. So, even though my parents didn't teach me these things directly, it was definitely because of them that I followed the path that I did instead of another.
I'm mostly just responding to the article. A girl went to them and asked them to show more normal girls and they said nope.
I'm not sure if Seventeen has the "dress for your body type" pages, but generally, all the models look the same in those anyway :/
I did the diet thing in...9th grade, I think? I ate like one apple a day for a couple of weeks until I felt so horrible, I gobbled up all the food I could find and then cried. Ah teenage years
I didn't do that again though.A big issue with dieting (especially ones triggered by vanity magazines) is that it's a really, really bad idea to deprive yourself of nutrition during puberty.
^^All Fair points. 1 in 3 children in the UK are overweight, and if current trends continue, it is expected that upto 90% of the UK adult population will be classified as clinically overweight by 2050. Schools, the Government, the NHS, and their public health campaigns may in effect be playing a part for a child to reconsider an apple for a crisp.
Sadly, there is a huge mental health problem, where children are concerned, and there is a separate clinical health problem, i.e. obesity, in the making, or already here, so it becomes important, to separate dieting statistics.
FYI to declare any conflict of interest, I work in the media intelligence field, for one of the biggest, if not the biggest media research companies in the world.
One of the things I have to do is tell the NSPCC, how the national newspapers report on children's issues.
Sadly, there is a huge mental health problem, where children are concerned, and there is a separate clinical health problem, i.e. obesity, in the making, or already here, so it becomes important, to separate dieting statistics.
FYI to declare any conflict of interest, I work in the media intelligence field, for one of the biggest, if not the biggest media research companies in the world.
One of the things I have to do is tell the NSPCC, how the national newspapers report on children's issues.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I keep on hearing about how kids nowadays make layability lists and whatnot, and I can't recall anyone in my class ever doing that.
Anyone here ever did that in high school?
Anyone here ever did that in high school?
Devolution
Member
Pretty sure something similar happened at my highschool. Basically hot lists or whatever.
Adeshina365
Banned
I've been told by several GAF members to stay away from this thread and not to argue with several members that post regularily in this thread.
Would you girls mind explaining to me how so many users have come to dislike you?
Would you girls mind explaining to me how so many users have come to dislike you?
Professor Beef
Banned
I'm sure they did at my school, but I never got to see them. I remember my sister and her friends making a few too.
Cooties.
(This has been my answer to conundrums involving women for as long as I can remember. Hasn't failed me yet.)
People fear what they don't understand xD
The Anti-Monitor
Banned
I heard ratings some times, but never anything like lists.
A lot of people on GAF are fairly sexist and it gets particularly exposed when arguing with girls, which tends to result on bans.
Adeshina365
Banned
Looking through past threads here, several of you girls on here have been quite aggressive and disrespectful.
The Anti-Monitor
Banned
Given the condescending way people tend to talk to us and how we should act and feel, I don't think that's so bad.
You should have listened.
Professor Beef
Banned
smh
Devolution
Member
Sigh.
This is exactly what I didn't want this thread to turn into. At least it got nipped in the bud.
This is exactly what I didn't want this thread to turn into. At least it got nipped in the bud.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Hey, we're not all that bad.
Professor Beef
Banned
No, they're still there.
NoirVisage
Banned
Thats scary if this is true. *ninja vanish*
Professor Beef
Banned
Probably triggering another deus ex machina.
somewhere crying in the corner because of how fucking terrible she is
also what beefy said
I don't even...
ANYWAY. I found a fun bra site!
Or it's fun for me because it has cute, cheap bras in lots of sizes! I got a pretty black and silver thing with lace and bows that makes me look like I could smother someone with my cleavage lolol.
Lots of great stuff, cheap, really easy with returns. YAY.
ANYWAY. I found a fun bra site!
Or it's fun for me because it has cute, cheap bras in lots of sizes! I got a pretty black and silver thing with lace and bows that makes me look like I could smother someone with my cleavage lolol.
Lots of great stuff, cheap, really easy with returns. YAY.
BladeWorker
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Never made them, but the girls at my high school were subject to them.
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