Post: Workshop: The Girl's Guide to Getting REAL Tour
Workshop: The Girl's Guide to Getting REAL Tour
True story:
- 92 percent of teen girls would like to change something about the way they look.
- 86 percent of the approx. 10 million American girls and women who suffer from an eating disorder report the onset of their condition by age 20.
- 74 percent of girls say they are under pressure to please everyone.
Girls don’t have to let disrespect and unrealistic ideals get them down. They can get REAL instead…
This October, I'm teaming up with the amazing Audrey Brashich, author of ALL MADE UP: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype & Celebrating Real Beauty, to deliver an empowering workshop for teen girls.
We’ll be traveling to schools, libraries and youth clubs throughout California to speak with girls about how to change their worlds (inside and out). During this interactive workshop, girls will learn how to push past unrealistic ideals and disrespect to reach their potential through these 3 steps:
Step 1 Busting through media hype & negativity!
Step 2 Boosting self-respect & being true to yourself!
Step 3 Speaking out, taking action & changing the world for all girls!
We’ll also be speaking with parents and teachers about how to coach girls around these important issues.
To find out how you can get book a workshop -- or sponsor the event, visit the Respect RX blog.
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Date: June 17, 2007
There's a show on nickelodeon called "The naked brothers band". Now, I just watched an episode of this show thinking, "this might be interesting" and it was, though I can't say in any good way. This show stars ten or eleven year old boys, teenage girls, and has enough suggestive material to land it in the adult section. In the episode i watched, one boy asked another if he would kiss a boy. When he said he didn't know, the first boy suggested "What if he had nice hair?" which was followed by the reply "DEFINITLY". In the ending scene,not only has the boy fixed his hair to what the second said he liked, the same boys were in the alleyway behind the music video place with the first one saying WEll, a lot of people seem to be kissing today. Then a woman walks her dog in and the second kid says he likes it. At this point the first boy gets mad because the second says he likes all kind of hair, then asks the first why he changed his hair with the response "long story" and running away nervously
I don't blame the kids on the show, but rather the writers. Take time to watch this disgrace and help stop it (or at least change the writing) This needs to be stopped.