I went shopping for a bra with my daughter a few days ago. We were not successful. We went into about four shops and this is what I discovered. About 99% of bras have “under-support wires” in them. These are designed to lift up and shape breasts. These wires dig into ribs if a woman moves in any way at all. About […]
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Here is a contest for girls to tell the world how the negative words on T-Shirts impacts them. Routing Number BANCFIRST I have alwasy been amazed when girls wear T-shirts that actually pu them down!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuQdp-yxG4g
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Another Reality TV actor has committed suicide. This should make us all question why we need to be voyeurs and the harm it is causing us all, as individuals and in our relationships. In her book Reality bites back-The troubling truth about gulity pleasure TV Jennifer Pozner suggests that human beings are copycats. Routing Number
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I’m not really celebrating yet as researchers at Tel Aviv University develop a strip that can detect the date rape drug (GHB and ketamine) used by males to knock out women then rape them. Wouldn’t the hundreds of thousands of dollars in research be better spent on teaching boys how to respect girls and stop
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Dr Leora Pinhas, head of the eating disorder clinic at SickKids Hospital in Toronto is seeing more very young girls in her program. Even girls as young as five – and it shoots up for girls aged 11-15 (386 in 2009) and also ages 16-20 (572 in 2009). She points to ballet, figure skating and
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This is a classic video clip well worth watching, by Jean Kilbourne. Routing Number BANCFIRST
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Audrey Brashich, A Vancouver based journalist and former teen model wrote a book: “All Made up: A girls guide to seeing through celebrity hypes and celebrating real beauty. She spoke this week in Vancouver on a panel discussing Healthy Sexuality (at the YWCA). Sadly I had to miss it…I will blog on it when I
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I want to celebrate the mothers (Mumsnet) and other protestors in the United Kingdom who last week managed to stop huge retailer Primark (138 stores) from selling padded bikini tops for young girls. In 2006 Tesco, supermarket giant removed a pole dancing set (with frilly garder and DVD!) but still carries padded bras for girls. Why can’t
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Leonard Sax has a new book out called “Girls on the Edge.” I have not read it yet, but wanted to share with you what I gleamed from the McLean’s Magazine review (3 May 2010). Dr. Sax found that girls are in very serious trouble and suffering from a very fragile sense of self. He describes cutting, binge drinking, depression and
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Daphne Bramham is my favorite journalist (Vancouver Sun columnist). Her recent articles are about human trafficking and she tackles the topic so eloquently (Vancouver Sun, June 19, 2010 and others). The disturbing story about the conviction of a local art dealer and father, Kenneth Klassen who plead guilty to 15 counts involving sex acts with girls under the age of
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