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I am capaigning To make magazines and advertiseents label their airbrushed images "this image has been airbrushed" or just "AIRBRUSHED"...

Wednesday 19 January 2011

Airbrushing!!! Should magazines and advertisements have to label their airbrushed images?

My name is Olivia Wittet,
I am Campaigning to make magazines and advertisements label their airbrushed images "this image has been airbrushed" or just "AIRBRUSHED"...it started off to just be a citizenship GCSE project but it has grown and i am now i am trying to go further! You see i called up magazines such as vogue, Elle, glamour, self...etc on almost all of them i was told to EMAIL them instead, even though i had already done that, but on one call to a certain magazine called "Elle" the receptionist said and i quote "That's something we don't discuss at Elle!" (when i tried to talk to the editor about airbrushing.) Magazines shouldn't feel that they are able to just brush a subject like "Airbrushing" under "the rug"; when 70% of girls feel depressed, guilty and shameful of themselves after reading a fashion magazine for ONLY 3 minutes! Many many many women and children are unaware that most images (if not all) in magazines are "airbrushed" in some way or another! i cant tell you how many fashion magazines i have emailed but i can tell you that NONE have replied. shouldn't we be able to get some kind of response on a subject so delicate and yet so serious as this!
Advertisers make money by projecting the image of a beautiful thin woman advertising a product that they claim it will make the shopper...skinny, non-wrinkling, tanned, BEAUTIFUL!!! in reality that woman isn't as she looks she is AIRBRUSHED!
So where should i go from her???
I have emailed magazines and advertisements about my campaign trying to get them included!  
When that didn't work i called them, only to be told to email the instead!
Will people listen to a 15 year old girl talking about a subject kept so quiet that it is hoped that people will just forget about it???
Will Anyone read this???
How many other people have campaigned for the same thing as me???
Has anyone succeeded???
I am I just talking to myself???

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