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sparkamovement:

Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images of Real Girls!

Girls want to be accepted, appreciated, and liked. And when they don’t fit the criteria, some girls try to “fix” themselves. This can lead to eating disorders, dieting, depression, and low self esteem.

I’m in a ballet class with a bunch of high-school girls. On a daily basis I hear comments like: “It’s a fat day,” and “I ate well today, but I still feel fat.” Ballet dancers do get a lot of flack about their bodies, but it’s not just ballet dancers who feel the pressure to be “pretty”. It’s everyone. To girls today, the word “pretty” means skinny and blemish-free. Why is that, when so few girls actually fit into such a narrow category? It’s because the media tells us that “pretty” girls are impossibly thin with perfect skin.

Here’s what lots of girls don’t know. Those “pretty women” that we see in magazines are fake.They’re often photoshopped, air-brushed, edited to look thinner, and to appear like they have perfect skin. A girl you see in a magazine probably looks a lot different in real life.

That’s why I’m asking Seventeen Magazine to commit to printing one unaltered — real — photo spread per month. I want to see regular girls that look like me in a magazine that’s supposed to be for me.

For the sake of all the struggling girls all over America, who read Seventeen and think these fake images are what they should be, I’m stepping up. I know how hurtful these photoshopped images can be. I’m a teenage girl, and I don’t like what I see. None of us do. Will you join us by signing this petition and asking Seventeen to take a stand as well and commit to one unaltered photo spread a month?

bradstuck:

Reblogging because this beautiful creature

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rufflesnotdiets:

I love vintage/historical photos that you give a sense of the lives and personality of the subjects.  Like this one just makes me think “I would hang with these awesome ladies”

A Stark, a Lannister, a Baratheon, and a Targaryen walk into a bar…

badwolfy:

sageoflogic:

bitemebeautiful:

motherjones:

think-progress:

Seems about right. 

It’s the New Math:

Also, are you guys following Think Progress? You should be following Think Progress.

Jon Stewart, LET ME LOVE YOU 

Gak! I need to catch up! No cable at school so I watch on Hulu when I can ._.

dewdrops-on-roses:

waywardturtle:

Flooring that only costs about $1.44 per square foot.

 #SOMEONE TELL JOHN GREEN WE’VE FOUND OUT WHAT TO DO WITH THE PENNIES

^that tag

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denoflightandsilver:

psychoslut:

roll-a-d20-and-kiss-me:

unlimitedobsessions:

OMG YES

YOU WIN THE INTERNET

AW FUCK YIS

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Apply sterile gauze to the burn.

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• Hufflepuffs: Do unto others as you would have them undo to you
• Ravenclaws: Think before you act
• Slytherins: Bitches aint shit but hoes and tricks
• Gryffindors: YOLO

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HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?

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“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”

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religiousragings:

The plants just held their breaths for a year, of course.