Fashion Games

14-year-old Julia Bluhm has an official petition to try and get Seventeen magazine to stop
modifying their photos to make the models look artificially perfect.

Basically, she thinks these fake images pressure girls to be perfect. When girls can’t
measure up to them (because they’re not real), they feel bad about themselves.

Here’s Julia’s official explanation:

“Girls want to be accepted, appreciated, and liked. And when they don’t fit the criteria,
some girls try to ’fix’ themselves. This can lead to eating disorders, dieting,
depression, and low self esteem.

On a daily basis I hear comments like: ’It’s a fat day,’ and ’I ate well today, but I
still feel fat.’ […]To girls today, the word ’pretty’ means skinny and blemish-free. Why
is that, when so few girls actually fit into such a narrow category? It’s because the
media tells us that ’pretty’ girls are impossibly thin with perfect skin.

Here’s what lots of girls don’t know. Those ’pretty women’ that we see in magazines are
fake. They’re often photoshopped, air-brushed, edited to look thinner, and to appear like
they have perfect skin. A girl you see in a magazine probably looks a lot different in
real life.

I want to see regular girls that look like me in a magazine that’s supposed to be for me.
For the sake of all the struggling girls all over America, who read Seventeen and think
these fake images are what they should be, I’m stepping up. I know how hurtful these
Photoshopped images can be. I’m a teenage girl, and I don’t like what I see. None of us
do.”
She has an official petition plzz do sign it i have given the link below:)
i know it was long to read but plzz sign the petition and agree!!!!

http://www.change.org/petitions/seventeen-magazine-give-girls-images-of-real-girls