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Kanika Vaish

A Different Kind of Sex Talk With Teens - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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teenage pregnancy reader's comments

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  • 3. Linda Oklahoma November 5th, 2010 1:22 pm I was recently wrapping up an item to be mailed when I came ac
Kanika Vaish

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  • I'm telling my daughters to wait until they are 20 to have sex. I did, and it was a good decision
    • Kanika Vaish
      Kanika Vaish on 14 Nov 10
       
      Although, chances are that they won't wait, with the amount of time television promotes sex at a young age.
  • I was recently wrapping up an item to be mailed when I came across an article in the local paper. It said that the teen pregnancy rate for Noble Co. was 33 per cent for girls between 15 and 19.
Simran Fabiani

Anorexia: A Media-Borne Illness - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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anorexia media borne ilness

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  • he top shows watched by female college students: Gossip Girl, Project Runway, and America’s Next Top Model. Likewise for magazines: Vogue, Seventeen, and Allure.
  • The media I’ve listed contribute to shaping what society considers beauty. The common denominators are tall, desperately skinny women who look fabulous. It should come as no surprise the media is to blame for today’s artificial standard of beauty.
  • The constant bombardment of skinny models and diet plans will certainly have an effect on women whose bodies are just not meant to be that small.
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  • Low self-esteem and eating disorders are the side effects from the media’s portrayal of artificial beauty
  • as of 2004, 8 million people—7 million of them women—had an eating disorder (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, etc.).
  • According to the American Psychiatric Assn.’s Diagnostic & Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, people who suffer from anorexia typically have an underlying personality disorder and seek more control over their environment.
  • indicate that discipline and control, rather than thinness, were their true goals
  • 66% of Americans do not even come close to conforming to that supposed ideal. Meanwhile, less than 3% of the U.S. population suffers from an eating disorder
  • We know Barbie is anatomically impossible.
  • magazine covers featuring celebrities have been airbrushed,
  • blaming the media for eating disorders is a lot like laying the blame for underage smoking on TV characters
  • "over three-quarters of the female characters in TV situation comedies are underweight, and only one in 20 are above average in size.
  • Heavier actresses tend to receive negative comments from male characters about their bodies
  • 80% of these negative comments are followed by canned audience laughter."
Aneesh Mysore

Grand Theft Auto: Do Video Games Cause Behavior Problems? - 0 views

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  • “You play as a thug with problems you must steal and shoot your way out of, but the problems this time are disconcertingly more realistic.
  • (ie: of the level that shoots and steals his way out of problems?? Wouldn’t this indicate some psychopathic tendencies? Do parents actually buy this game for kids?)
  • The killing and stealing bothers this writer not at all, just the curse words. And, there is this comment, barely literate and disturbing: “dis game is tight the graphocs rock one thing i enjoy is that you get to kill people and take peoples nice cars and in one mission u can buy a big plane like ones at the airports”.
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