Comments on: Pure Irony?

By: Self-esteem and the media « April Soloway’s Weblog

Self-esteem and the media « April Soloway’s Weblog — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:02:34 +0000

[...] get whiter teeth, build obscenely large muscles, and wear the “coolest” clothes. Leanne and Rachelle ran into this problem- even a site intended to promote self-esteem and real beauty was not safe [...]

By: couros

couros — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:41:52 +0000

Hope you got this ad-free figured out. Thanks for bringing up this irony!

By: colleenlittle

colleenlittle — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:12:20 +0000

Alright, I’m just going to put in 2 cents. I don’t know if I agree with this point but it did cross my mind and I thought it might be an interesting idea to discuss. Where do we draw the line between loving ourselves no matter what we look like, being healthy, and being unhealtily skinny. Can people who read those ads and buy into them have a good body self image or can they only think negatively about themselves. Can they love themselves but think that if they were a bit lighter they might be healtier. Could they see those ads as a way to an exercise and diet routine.
I know that those ads, and all ads usually put negative thoughts about ourselves but do they never do anything positive?
Can you love yourself and still want to improve upon yourself or to love yourself can you think that improvement is unnessesary?
anyway just trying to get a good convo going.
PS I LOVE YOUR PROJECT AND SITE AS YOU ALREADY KNOW! and if you can get those ads off the site. I think that in itself would be a great discussion. Monitoring and having control of your own internet site. I was unaware!

By: lichtenwald

lichtenwald — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:22:16 +0000

The advertising schemes through some of these services are ridiculous. Ning does release ad-free groups as long as the group is created for education. Good luck on building this group it sounds like a fun project.