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redqueen

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3. I don't understand why Reviving Ophelia didn't result in widespread awareness.

Reply to Demeter (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 30, 2014, 01:47 PM

Jan 2014

I don't understand why Miss Representation didn't, either.

I just hope all these efforts to expose the ways this system self-perpetuates, and the myriad harms it causes, bear significant results, ASAP.

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Depression among girls and women - when will this stop being treated like news? [View all] redqueen Jan 2014 OP

Exactly so Demeter Jan 2014 #1

I don't understand why Reviving Ophelia didn't result in widespread awareness. redqueen Jan 2014 #3

It might be uncomfortable and a little painful in the beginning cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #2

Definitely women should call it out in front of girls. Every time. redqueen Jan 2014 #4

I was lucky and had a very feminist mother cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #5

Yep, as my teen girls get older redqueen Jan 2014 #6

They're lucky to have a mother like you. cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #8

Aww, thanks redqueen Jan 2014 #9

thank you for pointing this out. definitely in the "duhhhhh, ya think???" category niyad Jan 2014 #7

Right? redqueen Jan 2014 #10

It's far more complicated than that BainsBane Jan 2014 #11

What is simple is that this imbalance is true all over the world. redqueen Jan 2014 #12

The issue is depression. It's in the title of your OP BainsBane Jan 2014 #13

I stopped reading after you accused me of knowing "very little about the subject" redqueen Jan 2014 #14