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Killing Us Softly

Just another thought to bookend the complicated aspect of yesterday’s post on compulsive eating.  [Thanks, Kelly G.]

This is the trailer for Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly 4 DVD, which was just released.  She attempts to distill what advertising tells us about women–in about 5 minutes.  You can find other posts of hers on YouTube, if you’re interested.

Watch it.  It’s valuable…and disturbing.

It got me thinking.  How can I revise or change these messages for me?  For my daughter?  For my friends’ and their daughters?  More importantly, how do we raise sons in the midst of these lies?

What do you do when accosted by such imagery?

[Post image: Cindy Crawford comparison, as used in the Killing Us Softly 4 trailer]

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