1907-79 QUOTE ARCHIVE

We will delve into Media, Sex, Oppression and Religion as main topics. Within each main topic you will find a plethora of sub-topics as well as many functional links to the Web . . .

MEDIA

How do the values of the West, which hates censorship and believes in the free exchange of ideas fit in here? Airbrushing age off women's faces has the same political echo that would resound if all images of black people were routinely lightened. Magazines erase women's identity, power and history. Encouraging people to spend (the current estimate) $58 million dollars a week on bogus wrinkle removers.

What they say men want from women is actually what the advertisers want from women!

In the absence of mainstream journalism that treats women's issues with the seriousness they deserve, we look to the only place women's mass culture is represented....women's magazines.

Today you can't tell if a 40 year old woman is a grandmother, a first time mom, a law student or a senior partner.

Women's magazines have popularized feminist ideas more widely than any other written media, bringing information down from the ivory towers to the masses. Their often serious pro-woman content (How to get an abortion, the great breast implant hoax, how to get a divorce, what are our detergents doing to the rivers and streams) is "balanced" with images that provoke self-hatred in women while they anxiously scan the current months array of lies from the check out lines in the grocery store.

After a grayhaired editor of a leading women's magazine ran an article on the "Glories of gray hair", Clairol pulled its ads for six months.

Ask eMale Here is a great example of the mixed messages we get in our society! Go to this site and then come back after you have read what this idiot had to say!

See Naomi Wolf's "The Beauty Myth" and other resources for more on this issue.

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