Chapter 7: Let’s Celebrate!

Your conversations, choices and ideas are more influential that you realize. They might spark a plan or a chain reaction without you ever even knowing.

So do your thing and share your experiences on the blog!

Comments

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Yay! Rantin' 'n' ravin'! With all this typing, my keyboard will get RUINED.

[Miranda]

Just a comment: I saw this cereal ad once, where there's this group of giggling girls (all in pink with flowers and stuff) sitting around the cereal box. The Older Brother wants the cereal. So he pulls the curtains over a window back, and there's this really "hot" shirtless guy in the backyard. The girls all gather around the window and gawk, while the boy steals the cereal. Now how sexist is that? It's saying, "Girls are only interested in getting the guy." Now, I certainly don't think that's true. Actually, most of the girls I know are not obsessed with "getting the guy"!

[Abby11]

I saw in a magazine once, a popstar walking around a beach with a really slutty bikini. Her body was all skin and bones, I swear. The aricle next to the picture explained how beautiful she is. And how you could lose weight and look like that too. After I read that, I had this really, mad, scared, sad feeling. Why would these ppl want to encurage America to become anerexic? And they thought she was hot. That really scares me.

[Audrey]

Interesting comment Abby. Y'know, I find that all those gossip magazines tend to praise the stars until suddenly they really really have a problem. Like with Mary-Kate Olsen, Kate Bosworth Nicole Richie and others... they were toooooo thin LONG before anyone got all up in arms about their appearance, but it wasn't until they were DRASTICALLY thin before the magazines STOPPED putting them on the pages with stories like "How Stars Drop Weight! Ten Great Diets" and moved them under headlines like "Is Mary- Kate Sick?"

Really... the concern needs to start much much earlier

[Anna]

OMG! I just saw a commercial advertising a shampoo and I really am sticking with my old shampoo as it told you to but I loved the comment at the end, "For hair not hype!" HOW COOL IS THAT! :)

[Anna]

OMG! I just saw a commercial advertising a shampoo and I really am sticking with my old shampoo as it told you to but I loved the comment at the end, "For hair not hype!" HOW COOL IS THAT! :)

[Alli B.]

I think this book has a lot to talk about for as much as i have read. It's teaching me alot of leasons and it should be a must read for pre-teens and teenagers beacuse they will get to know what real beauty is and what being a girl is about. I like this book so far and i'm reading it instead of my old book!!! Thanks for making this book Audrey Brashich!

[C.C. Manga]

It's amazing how all the media is now turning the attention to the "'skinny'-and-bones" girls these days. I am watching America's Got Talent, and they have this group on called THE GLAMAZONS -- four women whose bodies would be considered scandalous in today's culture. They are all plus-size women with just as much talent as these showgirls in Las Vegas (practically none if you don't count showing off and shaking body parts). I thought they ROCKED as an act!!! One of the women who joined was one who originally hated her weight. Now she and her 3 girlfriends are closer to $1 Million! I'm a size 6, but I'm still rooting these women on! It sure makes me feel satisfied about my body as well as other women's self-esteem!

[Jasmine]

I think only you could decide whats beautiful and who's successful. Every one has there own opinion. Until i read this book i really obsessed over how i look, and i asked all my friends if they thought i was ugly or if i was prettier than the other girl, but now i kinda realize that beauty is important and all but what's really important is what kind of person you are in the inside. If your nice and giving and sweet, it reflects how you look on the outside. It may sound like a whole lotta gibberish and some Cinderella story quote, but it really isn't. i learned it the hard way:)

[CJ]

POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe how many bikinis were on sale this year! Next year i'll have to wear juniors clothes since i dont even fit in girls clothes as of now! I don't want to wear bikiinis with pads in them!I also saw this girl a grade ahead of me at the locel swiming pool in a bikini posing for BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUK YUK YUK!!!!!!!!:*(

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[Joanna]

This was one of the few sites my daughter could be trusted on her own with... until that last post. Spam-- which she clicked on, figuring it safe-- despite her instructions never to click on anything without our knowledge.
Time to decommission the computer while I run all the antispy software. DON'T go to exquistegiftsonline!

[Not the Hype giver-iner]

Thankz Joanna
i will not click on that