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Originally Posted by garinda
True, but it's more complicated than that.
Who'd have thought someone like Katie Price would have been a role model, nearly half a century after the womens' liberation movement changed so many attitudes about self-image?
It is very sad, that wanting to look like Barbie, in this post-feminist world, is seen as normal.
Rather than being encouraged to be happy, and self-confident, in your own imperfect, unique, beautiful, skin.
It's not just girls.
Young boys are getting as screwed up as girls, when it comes to self-image.
It's sad, but l don't know what the answer is.
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I completely agree with all your comments, it seems that what the Women's Liberation Movement was all about has become skewed and now seems to target the worst in both men and women, in that women want to aspire to the worst in men's behaviour and both sexes seem to strive for unattainable perfection of a kind that can only be achieved via surgery and airbrushing. I don't know what the answer is unless there's a way to stop the media from doing what they do by providing completely unrealistic people and lifestyles as role models for our young people.