http://about-face.org/blog Media trespasses against us Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:51:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Passionate activists! Quiet behind-the-scenes helpers! Education-minded world changers! Join About-Face in getting the word out about how young women are affected by mainstream media! The Meetup Learn more about our small but effective organization and the many ways we can work together! There will be volunteer opportunities to get into right ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/221 You're reading the About-Face blog, so I'm gonna guess that you're interested in the various messed-up ways women and girls are portrayed in media, and how it can really damage our self-esteem and self-respect. Well, now there's a movie about it! It's the new documentary "America the Beautiful," and you ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/219 As if the world of gaming wasn't unfriendly enough for women. Feministing caught wind of the latest steaming pile of circuits from Sony: a game called Fat Princess. The premise is capture-the-flag, except here the flag is a woman. Each team feeds their kidnap victim as much cake as possible ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/216 A couple new About-Face events for you, Bay Area-ites! A series of Wednesdays: August 6, 13, and 20. We'd love to see you in person, so check out the details over on our Volunteer page. - J.B. http://about-face.org/blog/archives/213 When Lorrie A. appeared on cosmetic-surgery reality show "The Swan" back in 2004, she didn't know what she was getting herself into. Now she's scarred and damaged. Have a look at her (very short) interview on E! News from Sunday: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_HbsTJsX80[/youtube] About-Face took action around "The Swan"'s airing. The result: We sent ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/212 Recently we came across an honest, enlightening account of a mother and daughter's experience with eating disorders, and we thought you should know about it. Distorted, a book by Lorri Antosz Benson and her daughter Taryn Leigh Benson, chronicles the experiences they respectively shared while Taryn was battling eating ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/211 Is it just me, or is the term "sex sells" getting as old as the phrase "surf's up?" CNN, being the intellectual news source that it is (ha!) reported on something quite relevant. Yes, they did a short piece on bikini-clad baristas in Seattle, Washington. Apparently, these baristas are making ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/204 We're so much more than a blog and a web site! And our last volunteer meeting, on June 25, was a success! We hatched a plan: an action that takes on our culture's obsession with weight. We'll be teaming up with Marilyn Wann, author of the inspiring book Fat!So?, to ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/199 "Mommy, does plastic surgery make you look like a different person?" "No, it just makes you look more beautiful than you used to be." From my seat next to her, both of us facing the Starbucks storefront, I balked. Her reflection gave her away: tall, thin, with a tightly drawn face ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/201 Lest we think that the images we see in ads are the gospel truth, here comes the blog Photoshop Disasters, featuring the most egregious blunders in digital manipulation. It features the so-called flawless retouches that accidentally defy the laws of physics and/or human anatomy. Not only is this blog absolutely ... http://about-face.org/blog/archives/198