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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJulia Bluhm, Seventeen Reader, Petitions Magazine To Feature Non-Airbrushed Photos
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/julia-bluhm-seventeen-petition_n_1464445.htmlsnip-
13-year-old Julia Bluhm submitted a petition through Change.org entitled "Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images of Real Girls!" Bluhm, a middle school student from Maine, writes that the constant ambush of overly Photoshopped images has caused her and her peers to develop low self-esteem about their own bodies:
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Those pretty women that we see in magazines are fake. Theyre 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.
Thats why Im asking Seventeen Magazine to commit to printing one unaltered -- real -- photo spread per month. I want to see regular girls that look like me in a magazine thats supposed to be for me.
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Here's the petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/seventeen-magazine-give-girls-images-of-real-girls
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Julia Bluhm, Seventeen Reader, Petitions Magazine To Feature Non-Airbrushed Photos (Original Post)
ScreamingMeemie
May 2012
OP
How long until all print models are just completely computer generated? n/t
PoliticAverse
May 2012
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Scout
(8,624 posts)1. good luck to her. n/t
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)2. Apparently they are demonstrating outside of Seventeen's offices today.
I wish them well too!
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)3. Kids today...I swear.
They just have no respect for all the hard work us graphic artists put into making people look plastic.
/sigh I guess I'm just stuck with being proud of our new generation.
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)8. You'll love this:
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)10. That's pretty good. n/t
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)4. + 100000!
The beauty culture that came out of the 80s did some serious damage to many of today's moms. These are some amazing young women!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)5. How long until all print models are just completely computer generated? n/t
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)6. I remember when I was a kid...13? 14? I shaved my arms
cause all the models had no hair on their arms...who knew about airbrushing back then..the early 60's?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)7. How many actresses would refuse to be on 17 if this went into effect?
I'm thinking 99%, although that might be a tad low.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)9. Good, I am sick and tired of this culture of youth and beauty
the kids, it seems, are as well.
redqueen
(115,108 posts)11. And the sadly unsurprising result.
http://jezebel.com/5907397/seventeen-says-thanks-but-no-thanks-to-teens-photoshop-petition?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teens Photoshop Petition
Seventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started anonline petition to askthe magazine to curb its use of Photoshop. Although the magazine accepted the petition and its nearly 25,000 signatures when Bluhm went to deliver it in person yesterday,it appears Seventeen has no plans to take Bluhm's suggestion and start publishing just one non-Photoshopped spread per issue.
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Bluhm, an 8th grader who lives in Maine, said this morning via a spokesperson that she was nonetheless happy to have had the opportunity to meet with Shoket. "The fact that Seventeen's editor-in-chief met with me in person provesthat the voices of teen girls everywhere are getting through," said Bluhm. "While I would stillchange some of the ways Seventeen portrays girls,I'm encouraged that they're willing to listen to me and the 30,000 people who've signed my petition. Seventeen's invited me to work with them on this issue, which meanswe girls Seventeen's readers are finally being heard loud and clear. It'sreally exciting."
Bluhm's media blitzhas certainly been felt online: traffic spikes made the Web site of SPARK,the feminist organization Bluhm is involved in, inaccessible for most of yesterday afternoon,and Bluhm's petitionhas now been signed by over 45,000 people and is still growing.
Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teens Photoshop Petition
Seventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started anonline petition to askthe magazine to curb its use of Photoshop. Although the magazine accepted the petition and its nearly 25,000 signatures when Bluhm went to deliver it in person yesterday,it appears Seventeen has no plans to take Bluhm's suggestion and start publishing just one non-Photoshopped spread per issue.
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Bluhm, an 8th grader who lives in Maine, said this morning via a spokesperson that she was nonetheless happy to have had the opportunity to meet with Shoket. "The fact that Seventeen's editor-in-chief met with me in person provesthat the voices of teen girls everywhere are getting through," said Bluhm. "While I would stillchange some of the ways Seventeen portrays girls,I'm encouraged that they're willing to listen to me and the 30,000 people who've signed my petition. Seventeen's invited me to work with them on this issue, which meanswe girls Seventeen's readers are finally being heard loud and clear. It'sreally exciting."
Bluhm's media blitzhas certainly been felt online: traffic spikes made the Web site of SPARK,the feminist organization Bluhm is involved in, inaccessible for most of yesterday afternoon,and Bluhm's petitionhas now been signed by over 45,000 people and is still growing.