Although my own daughter is a bit too young in my opinion for +Seventeen Magazine, I will have to pick up a copy to look through when they implement their Photoshop-free spread. As a teen, I remember Seventeen being nothing more than "+Cosmopolitan Magazine-light" only seemingly replacing the articles on how to turn on your man with how to land your crush.
From the article: "In April Fashionista carried this story about fourteen year old Julia Bluhm who started a petition on Change.org asking Seventeen to do one spread a month with “real” girls. Seventeen has agreed and this month they responded with a list of goals they hope their new spread will accomplish."
My favorite tween/teen magazine is +American Girl Magazine and I actually read through it myself. Not sure if they 'shop anything though, I should really find that out. (I'm sure they do, but they really do include girls that don't fit the 'norm' of modeling.)
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My daughter really enjoyed Discovery Girls, which was for the middle school age group.
They actually don't promise to stop 'shopping it up, but maybe … just maybe … one small step for (wo)man…?
+Robert Henderson yes, just one 'spread' in the magazine will be Photoshop-free, not the entire mag.
Did you see this +Lynette Young ?
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106752997767195465691/posts/CeSnJMQnAUK
+Clare Cosgrove yes, while that's targeted to women (which is almost as bad) the idea that materials marketed to younger girls still forming their own self-opinions and more easily influenced by airbrushed media is disturbing me me as a woman and as a mom. My daughter has a hard enough time being comfortable with peers, I really don't need a magazine 'telling' her she's not thin or athletic enough.
I agree,having two daughters myself ..one of those turning 12yrs in September ..I know what I went through at that age and I work very hard to do all I can, to avoid her going through the same. I personally feel that it should be banned completely.
I am tired of the fantasy world these magazines sell us and it is just plain dangerous and irresponsible allowing it to happen in teen mags.