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The Boilers actually won a football game--isn't that great?? And I went to it, too! It was my very first Purdue football game. Boy am I glad they won :-).

After the game I went to a Parent's Dinner at church that my parents came to. I just got back from a rather circuitous trip home with Mia and Christie. Mia took home some of the fish that were part of the table decorations so we went to Wal-Mart to buy a home for them, as well as some food and decorative gravel stuff.

While we were in line I was reading the covers for some of the magazines...looks like Britney and Kevin are headed to Splitsville as well as Jessica and Nick...most of the stuff is garbage in case you couldn't tell! There was one cover, though, that had "then" and "now" pictures of some actresses, proclaiming how much "healthier" they have become. The "then" pictures were disgustingly thin, and the "now"s were still skinny but more normal. We've all heard about how bad the media is in this area, showing "perfect" models, and bringing about anorexia, etc. in teenage girls. We've heard so much, in fact, that some media people are wising up and having articles like the one I saw, portraying larger women in their ads, celebrating size, and on and on. But does this really work? If every single teen mag stops showing exclusively skinny models is it really going to change things? Yes we celebrate different sizes...but deep in their hearts girls are still going to be jealous of the skinny blonde and they are still going to want to see something else in the mirror even if their own body size and shape is plastered on billboards and fills up "Seventeen" pages.

I suppose I should have a point to this rambling...I think it is something along the lines of, I appreciate that the media is going more towards normal and away from sickly skinny. However, given the nature of girls, I'm not sure that it will do a whole lot of good. Girls are not stupid. They know that the skinny actresses are the ones that make it to the big screen. They know that the media is being pushed to portray "healthy" and "size diversity", but they also know that in real life, the skinny girls that stole their boyfriends last month are twenty pounds lighter than they are.

This topic is now open for discussion. So, discuss away!