Instead of seeing their true selves, girls become trapped in a maze of fairground mirrors, with a distorted idea of what it is to be normal.
Even so, girls don’t get brainwashed into thinking thin is good and fat means failure without some reinforcement at home.
Painful though it may be to admit, the first lessons girls get about their bodies come from us, their mothers. Low-cal, low-fat, high-carb, low-protein, gluten-free… considering food is such a simple and essential commodity, we’ve made it incredibly complicated.
The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to transform her dark complexion to a cafe-au-lait-color common among Jamaica’s elite and favored by many men in her neighborhood. She believes a fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.
Simpson and her friends ultimately shrug off public health campaigns and reggae hits blasting the reckless practice.
“I hear the people that say bleaching is bad, but I’ll still do it. I won’t stop ’cause I like it and I know how to do it safe,” said Simpson, her young daughter bouncing on her hip.
Thanks leslie. You reminded me of this post that I never put up. In desperation, she (the dermatologist) continues.
“I know of one woman who started to bleach her baby. She got very annoyed with me when I told her to stop immediately, and she left my office. I often wonder what became of that baby,” said Neil Persadsingh, a leading Jamaican dermatologist.
Skin cancer, live for the moment because life is really rotten. The message needs to be about what is inside and not what is outside.
White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news.
The Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci – who, like many contemporary reporters, has a phone with video capabilities on her at all times – pulled out a small video camera last week and shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel.
She was part of a “print pool” – a limited number of journalists at an event who represent their bigger hoard colleagues – which White House press officials still refer to quaintly as “pen and pad” reporting.
Thin skinned. I suppose the White House has not seen the newest post on his pappy.
Yes, it’s time to laugh because our economy is in the crapper, tornadoes are busting loose everywhere, nuclear plants are shutting down and we have such few things to make us smile or laugh.
Citing what he called threats from the Rev. Michael Pfleger to leave the church, Cardinal Francis George has removed the outspoken priest from St. Sabina parish and has suspended his “sacramental faculties as a priest.”
Pfleger had publicly feuded with the cardinal about possibly being reassigned to Leo High School, telling a radio show recently that he would look outside the Catholic church if offered no other choice.
“If that is truly your attitude, you have already left the Catholic Church and are therefore not able to pastor a Catholic parish,” George wrote in a letter dated today.
What do you think? I don’t know much about stuff, but I do know that when it came to Bush’s papers, someone forgot to generate them via typewriter. What would Dan Rather say?
Why so secretive? “Real” COLB released. How many millions to protect his records? Keep going Trump, it seems he’s the only one that can shame this manchild into being transparent.
Obama: “I have been puzzled and bemused by this topic.”
Smug. Barry sure didn’t look happy to have to speak about his birth in the manger Hawaii. Quite frankly, I am puzzled and not amused at how often this guy is on the golf course while the world burns.
According to the documents the White House provided online, a request was first made for Obama’s “long form” certificate on April 22, less than a week ago. That request, by Obama’s personal counsel, Judith Corley of the Perkins Coie firm, was accompanied by a letter requesting two copies of the document from the president himself.
So, what is POTUS doing right now that he prefers that we are all distracted by the “carnival?”
