Julia Bluhm is 14 years old. Sick of seeing photo and after photo of teens photoshopped in Seventeen Magazine, she started an on line petition asking the magazine to feature just one authentic picture a month. Yesterday, Bluhm took her petition and its going on 50,000 signatures to Seventeen’s office in New York City. Though [...]
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Seventeen Magazine refuses teen girl’s petition to curb photoshop
Posted in Media on May 4, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Time Magazine tells us everything is great for women
Posted in Media on March 20, 2012 | 18 Comments »
Hours ago, I posted about the pathetic stats for women in power positions. I wrote about this because I received yet another comment on my blog about how females have achieved parity and males are the ones in trouble. The stats behind this argument is that girls are half or soon to be half of [...]
Beautiful gives her daughter something to look forward to
Posted in Body image, Media, Most stereotyping *SSS* on March 16, 2012 | 16 Comments »
That’s the caption for an Elizabeth Arden ad I saw in O Magazine. Here it is: I know there’s hardly any point in getting pissed off about sexist ads from cosmetic companies, but the mom being “beautiful” gives her daughter something to look forward to? Are you kidding me? What really drives me crazy about [...]
Females 51% of population but minority of imaginary characters and real life power positions
Posted in Media on March 14, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Until early this year, there was just one lone female M & M. The green one. Then just before the Superbowl Time Magazine reported on the debut of another, bringing the female-male ratio to 1: 3: “M&Ms already has characters based on the other colors in its candy rainbow (red, yellow, blue, orange and green), [...]
Sexualized images of women in media and lack of women in power positions is connected phenomenon
Posted in Media on March 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
CNN.com reports today on Jennifer Siebel Newsom and her film Miss Representation: Here’s the fantasy: A half-naked women lies across a couch, lips pouty and cleavage prominent as her sultry gaze implores you to buy this bottle of perfume. The reality: Women make up 51% of the United States yet only 17% of seats in [...]
AOL becomes eighth sponsor to pull from Limbaugh show
Posted in Media, Most stereotyping *SSS*, tagged Rush Limbaugh on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Love this: “according to a high-level Huffington Post source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, but with a distinctly Greek accent.” This is why we need women in power positions (even if they don’t pay bloggers.) Read the rest here.
Be a ‘narrator of the world’
Posted in Media, tagged Courtney Martin, Katie Orenstein, Maurren Dowd, Susan Estrich, the oped project on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On CNN.com, Courtney Martin and Katie Orenstein write about how to have more Sheryl Sandbergs. At that time, about 15% of opinion pieces were written by women, though the imbalance was largely under the radar. The opinion page became a particularly contentious space for an outpouring of women’s voices in this overdue conversation. Nationally syndicated [...]
Go Daddy, we’re through
Posted in Media on February 6, 2012 | 20 Comments »
If you read Reel Girl, you’ve probably noticed my primitive blog address: http://margotmagowan.wordpress.com A couple years ago, right when I started blogging, a kind reader got me the name “Reel Girl.” I think he was on Web Hero. My ex brother-in-law had gotten me margotmagowan.com maybe ten years ago, he was on Go Daddy. My [...]
Reel Girl’s to read and watch list
Posted in Books, Media, Movies, Reel Girl's reader recs list, Television programs on February 5, 2012 | 16 Comments »
I’m compiling your suggestions in one post. This is a list of what I have NOT seen or read. I will add to it as you do and remove when I officially rate. If you don’t see your suggestions included here, they are elsewhere on Reel Girl already reviewed. To check those, in “categories” click: [...]
