Parakletos
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Being 17 and still in high school there's never a class or free period where I don't see at least one girl reading the latest issue of Seventeen. Most guys like me laugh at the sight and wonder what could possibly be so interesting that they have round-table discussion groups about them (because everyone knows that you need to know the secrets of "10 ways to make him yours")
Well, yours truly got his hot hands on an issue the other day. As I started to read through I noticed something right away: out of about 200 pages, 156 of them were all advertisements! So I would be reading on “whats hot this summer” turn the page and see 2 half-naked girls with a big logo under them. Thanks a lot for THAT nice visual.
Here's today’s economics lesson:
If 156 pages of the (about) 200 pages are all ads, then that means that over 3/4ths of the magazine practically belongs to the advertising companies. So if Seventeen doesn’t do what their advertisers want, then the advertisers leave, which equals no advertisements, which equals no money.
So the advertising companies gently tap Seventeen on the shoulder and say "Hey, we want to get our moneys worth from your magazine" so guess what they do? They have "beautiful" models smiling from the front covers and call her "hot" which makes young girls think "Gee, I must need to look like her" so then they become more and more unconfident about themselves, so then in their advertisers minds, they will buy all 500 of their products.
I always love their philosophy: "We can’t fix girls on the inside, so we do it on the outside and hopefully the outside will sink in. What?
Good thing that makeup companies now control the confidence of America's youth, huh?
You know what’s worse? If girls are growing up in their teen years being unconfident in themselves in pretty much every way, then what’s going to happen to them 10 year down the road? You think they will still be crying in their beds every night because "no one notices me"? Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this?
Seriously people, throw that garbage out. We don’t need a skinny blonde woman on the front cover (who I should note has been through 10 plastic surgeries or has been air brushed and tummy-tucked on Photoshop to make her LOOK like that) telling our girls what they need in life. What they NEED is what comes on the INSIDE which WILL effect what they are on the outside.
I have been praying for awhile now that God will restore the confidence in our youth, and they will see what they are really longing for: Him. If you have a spare moment today, I encourage you to do the same. I dont want my girls to grow up inconfident of themselves because of what they see and read. No one does. But only one person can change them from the inside out.
Well, yours truly got his hot hands on an issue the other day. As I started to read through I noticed something right away: out of about 200 pages, 156 of them were all advertisements! So I would be reading on “whats hot this summer” turn the page and see 2 half-naked girls with a big logo under them. Thanks a lot for THAT nice visual.
Here's today’s economics lesson:
If 156 pages of the (about) 200 pages are all ads, then that means that over 3/4ths of the magazine practically belongs to the advertising companies. So if Seventeen doesn’t do what their advertisers want, then the advertisers leave, which equals no advertisements, which equals no money.
So the advertising companies gently tap Seventeen on the shoulder and say "Hey, we want to get our moneys worth from your magazine" so guess what they do? They have "beautiful" models smiling from the front covers and call her "hot" which makes young girls think "Gee, I must need to look like her" so then they become more and more unconfident about themselves, so then in their advertisers minds, they will buy all 500 of their products.
I always love their philosophy: "We can’t fix girls on the inside, so we do it on the outside and hopefully the outside will sink in. What?
Good thing that makeup companies now control the confidence of America's youth, huh?
You know what’s worse? If girls are growing up in their teen years being unconfident in themselves in pretty much every way, then what’s going to happen to them 10 year down the road? You think they will still be crying in their beds every night because "no one notices me"? Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this?
Seriously people, throw that garbage out. We don’t need a skinny blonde woman on the front cover (who I should note has been through 10 plastic surgeries or has been air brushed and tummy-tucked on Photoshop to make her LOOK like that) telling our girls what they need in life. What they NEED is what comes on the INSIDE which WILL effect what they are on the outside.
I have been praying for awhile now that God will restore the confidence in our youth, and they will see what they are really longing for: Him. If you have a spare moment today, I encourage you to do the same. I dont want my girls to grow up inconfident of themselves because of what they see and read. No one does. But only one person can change them from the inside out.
