Campaign to challenge body image pressures
Posted on September 7, 2009
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You may have seen the recent Real Women paper by the LibDems which go a lot of coverage on its body image and pay gap policies.
The coverage of the body image section generated a huge response and lots of people got in touch to show us support for taking the first steps towards challenging some of the body image pressures on girls and women (and increasingly on men too).
We wanted to do something for all those who sent supportive emails and have decided to start a campaign to challenge the ever increasing use of digital retouching (airbrushing).
People can take action and join the campaign by going to http://www.realwomen.org.uk/takeaction. This is deliberately not hosted on the Lib Dem site so that even those who do not vote for the Lib Dems and/or are particularly interested in the women’s paper can take direct action.
If this campaign is something you are interested in then spread the word by:
Blogging
Tweeting
Changing your Facebook status
Thanks.
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