Today is Turn Beauty Inside Out Day. The Turn Beauty Inside Out (TBIO) campaign was launched in 2000 by New Moon Magazine and coordinated by the non-profit organization Mind on the Media. “Mind on the Media is a non-profit organization concerned about sexist stereotypes in all forms of mass media.”
Turn Beauty Inside Out (TBIO) is a grassroots celebration of media images that promote positive examples of inner beauty.
Children are bombarded through television, and advertising, with the message that real beauty is ones outer appearance.
Women seen in advertisements and media are often seriously underweight. The average fashion model weighs 25 percent less than the average woman. Young girls already insecure about their bodies are now comparing themselves to these models. Eating disorders usually start in early adolescence, when young girls are not happy with their bodies.
When we allow ourselves to get caught up in mass medias definition of beauty, we lose sight of what real beauty is. There is much more to a person than an outward appearance. A slim figure and a pretty face does not define feminine beauty and that is the message that New Moon wants to get across.
Help girls and boys look at themselves not just today, but every day from the inside out. Remember that every girl is beautiful.
What is your definition of beauty? Tell me about the woman in your life?
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Wrote: May 22, 2008 at 12:50 am
I am married to someone who is gorgeous on the outside and in her mind. Being someone who I clicked with inside the first 5 minutes of talking to, it then too kanother year before anything happened due to us both being with other people. I couldnt imagine being with anyone else in the world, and now she has a big round stomach where the other most important female in my life lives. It’s alllll good really.
Wrote: May 22, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Guess it would be something of a cop-out to just say something along the lines of “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder”—but I see no end to the current presentation of so called beauty til such time as the media begins to put more emphasis on Character, rather than characteristics.
Wrote: May 22, 2008 at 9:30 pm
My three granddaughters, who are being taught that real beauty comes from a passion for life, caring for all living creatures, and world peace (I’m being sarcastic here, at myself, I realized I was starting to sound cliche, but maybe not, because it’s really true). Seriously, my granddaughters are being taught that beauty is more than big boobs and a tiny waist.