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Love Your Body Day
by
Mavra Stark
Link
to National NOW's Love Your Body Day Page
October 15th is
"Love Your Body Day." NOW
has sponsored this national day of discussion for several years. The purpose is to make women and (especially) girls aware of how
industry is harmful to our images of ourselves. Not
only do the images we see in advertising, movies and television make us
feel inadequate, but many of us are harmed irreparably by trying to make
ourselves fit those images.
NOW has offered a free video on this subject
that can be viewed in schools, at house parties and at meetings. There
is also a discussion-provoking survey to take and send in to NOW.
Are you a teacher? Perhaps
you can arrange to have the video and discussion at your school. This
is one topic that both girls and boys can benefit from.
Do you think you might host a house party and
show the video to neighbors and friends? Ask
them to bring their daughters.
If this is of interest
to you, please contact me ASAP because it will take time to order the
video.
It
occurs to me that, although October 15th is the appointed day for this
activity, it's silly to hold strictly to that date. So
if you want to have the material on another day, that's just fine. The
important thing is to get this out to our youngsters
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