Do you have daughters? Are they worried about their weight?
Psychatristist also express their concern:
It's an interesting subject for debate: on one hand the modern sedentary lifestyle that causes a lot of children and teenages to be overweight and unfit, but on the other hand, younger and younger girls are expected to be thinner and thinner.
This Dove video addresses the problem, but I don't know how much good one solitary campaign can do against the constant bombardment of the "SLIM! SLIM! SLIM!" message coming from everywhere. Sport maybe? But, for some reason, although male athletes are seen as role-models, female athletes are mainly ignored in society. What do you think?
5 comments:
It's very worring...Let's stop this madness about the thinness.
Hi teacher.
I only want to recommend the reading of a very interesting article wich was writtren by a 17 years-old student from Canada. The article talks about file sharing in internet and it was published in a local newspaper. In a few days, has been read by a lot of people around the world. Here comes the link:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/not-wrong-just-illegal-84292007.html
Andreu: thanks for the link.
Of course I totally agree, but I would also add that the music industry has been ripping us off for years. The sole example of CDs is enough: when CDs came out, they replaced vinyl records. The industry hype claimed that CDs were virtually indestructible, and with this excuse, they made CDs a lot more expensive to buy than the old LPs.
However most people don't know that vinyl records are actually more expensive to produce than CDs, so in reality, record companies were making an enormous profit with CDs. Most companies stopped producing LPs altogether. They claimed that there wasn't a market for LPs, but basically they just wanted to sell at the highest price possible.
Not to mention that it's not even true that CDs are so long-lived. Once they're scratched that's it: you can practically throw them away, whereas a scratched LP is not a complete write-off. And a thing of beauty, too, if you're a vinyl fan.
So, as a life long music buyer, I download everything I can, as I feel it's a way of compensating for all the money that the music industry has made unethically over the years.
By the way, now in Spain there's an interesting debate on e-books. The situation is similar: the "poor" publishers and some bookshop owners feel threatened by the possibility of people downloading e-books for free, so instead of adapting to the new situation, they want to BAN BAN BAN. (In Spanish: http://www.econectados.com/2010/01/los-editores-espanoles-van-a-equivocarse-con-el-ebook/)
PS. Next month when I go to England, I'm going to stock up on blank CDs and DVDs, so I don't have to pay Ramoncín by buying them here...
I totally agree. As you, I download everything I can, sometimes more than I can listen or view...
Today I also read about the salary of Teddy Bautista who is the maximun manager of the infamous SGAE. I understand him chasing everybody (schools, hairstylist...) to pay the canons because he only win 323.000 per year. And even worst, when he retire, he´ll win 24.500 euros per month for life!!! It´s shameful.
Here´s comes the link about poor Teddy:
http://www.izaping.com/4533/teddy-bautista-presidente-de-la-sgae-sueldo-millonario.html
Wow, what a b*st*rd! Looks like there's no crisis for the rich. :(
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