Our Issue with Swimsuits (or lack thereof) in Sports Illustrated
44This week, the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue hit the mailboxes of 70 million SI subscribers, every newsstand and media outlet, and at least 250 million people will view the thousands of digitally manipulated, nude or near-nude images online. The highly publicized cover features a 19-year-old …
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The Lies We Buy: Defining Health at Women’s Expense
By Lindsay Kite After lots of research on perceptions of women’s health, I became interested in the Body Mass Index (BMI) and how it came to be the standard scale for judging a healthy weight. What I learned was shocking. This is an condensed excerpt …
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How Girls and Women Can Take Back Beauty
It takes real-life strategies to recognize harmful ideals about beauty and health and then reject them! Start with this list of totally doable strategies to redefine beauty and health in ways that promote real health, happiness, strength and love for yourself and others. Stop Negative …
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How Boys and Men Can Help Take Back Beauty
Below are some practical tips that boys and men can use in the battle to take back beauty. This important cause can be greatly benefited by the support of males who care! RUN from Normalized Pornography: Depicting sexual images and dialogue is now a normal part …
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A Hit TV Show Under Inspection: XOXO, Gossip Girl
High society and low blows are back as teen drama GOSSIP GIRL continues its rein as a smash hit in its 4th season, giving millions of viewers a glimpse into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite. Here, we’re offering the inside scoop on this wildly …
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Facts and Figures: 10 Girls Tell the Truth About Weight
Since we’ll see billions more images of women’s bodies in media than we ever will in real life, then it’s no surprise we all have a messed up idea of what normal weights, sizes and shapes really are. Hollywood isn’t showing or telling us anything close …
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Media Ideals: The Real True Hollywood Story
Well, after Lindsay’s last post on the sketchiness of the BMI, lots of people seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. As an incredibly unreliable method for judging weight, the BMI is a profit-driven standard that doesn’t tell us much at all about individual health. If …
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Feedback on "The Lies We Buy: Defining Health at Women’s Expense"
At last count, 180 people have shared the link to my last post about the unreliability of the BMI for judging a healthy weight on Facebook alone! A handful of those are my friends, and those posts have brought some insightful, positive and constructive responses and a …
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Beauty Redefined featured in LDS Living Magazine!
LDS Living Magazine, published by the Deseret Book Company, recently asked us to write an in-depth story for them about our Beauty Redefined work, and the issue is now available! Our article spans 10 pages in the current Jan/Feb 2011 issue and they made it look amazing with …
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Thin Ideals and the Way We Feel
With such a wealth of research showing that women’s magazines are consistently presenting unrealistic and underweight images of bodies as average and attainable, and with such an intense focus on thinness as the key to health, the corresponding health implications should not be surprising. Along …
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Victoria’s Secret: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Sexual Objectification!
Hello Beautiful Friends! This piece was published almost a year ago, and since that point, I have written a paper on Victoria’s Secret that won a “top paper” award in the Women’s Studies division at the 2011 National Communication Association Conference in New Orleans! In …
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Your Feedback!
After presenting our media and body image presentation to groups all over the state of Utah and beyond since April 2009, we have received lots of great feedback! To keep it compiled in one place and make it available to anyone who is interested, we …
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