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Beinggirl pulls article promoting eating disorders

24th March 2008

Beinggirl pulls article promoting eating disorders

posted in Eating Disorders, Pop Culture |

Thanks to everyone who heeded the call for action and wrote in to www.beinggirl.com site sponsors Tampax and P & G about an article promoting eating disordered behavior to young girls. The article has now been removed, but you can still read the sad and tragic comments it elicited from its young demographic archived on a follow-up post I wrote here.

It amazes me to see how effective we all are when we band together in defense of a common goal. And it saddens me to realize just how many battles out there exist that need and require our efforts.

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  1. 1 On March 24th, 2008, Meowser said:

    This is great! Fantastic job, everybody, bringing this to their attention.

    posted on March 24th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  2. 2 On March 24th, 2008, Charlotte said:

    Wow…I feel like I somehow helped make a few small steps of change in the world.

    posted on March 24th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

  3. 3 On March 24th, 2008, Corinna said:

    Awesome! This is really great news. Thank you for letting us know.

    posted on March 24th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

  4. 4 On March 24th, 2008, ladykuri said:

    Oh thank goodness!!! Now if only they’d put up something telling the girls why….. (yeah, I know, wishful thinking).

    We can cause small changes, maybe eventually we’ll be a force big enough (yeah, the pun, I went there) to really be heard!

    For now I’ll just breathe easier that there’s one less negative, nasty thing out there that my girls could have possibly seen! Not here, as beinggirl is blacklisted on our firewall now (cannot be accessed without the administrator password), but I can SO see schools allowing that site as “appropriate” or the library, etc allowing.

    posted on March 24th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

  5. 5 On March 24th, 2008, emmy. said:

    oh man, that’s so good.

    that’s the best news i’ve heard in a few weeks :D

    posted on March 24th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

  6. 6 On March 26th, 2008, BamaGal said:

    ladykuri said:

    “We can cause small changes, maybe eventually we’ll be a force big enough (yeah, the pun, I went there) to really be heard!”

    Little things can make a big difference. I found this quote a few days ago and it really applies, plus it cracks me up.

    If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
    ~Betty Reese

    posted on March 26th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

  7. 7 On March 26th, 2008, Ashley said:

    I am so glad that they pulled that artical, it is so sad what some of those girls wrote, just so sad.

    posted on March 26th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

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