First off I was wondering where we post our philanthropy messages this week because I did not find a place to post them on the usual site we click on,on the philanthropy homepage so I decided to make another post on this message board regarding the first proposal. Basically I enjoyed reading through this particular proposal mainly because it was thorough but to the point. However, in some ways I feel it does not focus enough upon its attitudes and possible resolutions to the body image problems many young women face today which I felt was most apparent in the description of the activities that this organization supports. However, I do agree with the teaching of young women about relationships with the opposite sex and how that impacts the way, unfortuneatly, many women today see their own bodies which I thought was a necessary component of this education on body image we spoke of in class.

I really got a kick out of the essay on body hair in /Body Outlaws./ I remember the slight disorientation I had on coming to college and being in a small community where virtually none of the women shaved. (Shaved their legs or underarms, that is. None of them had visible facial hair, so I don't know if any of them had to deal with that issue or not.) I quickly got used to it and it got to the point where it was disorienting to see shaved women's legs.

What's fascinating is that this social "requirement" of shaved legs is something that's been thrust upon us this past century, and is essentially a creation of marketing. It makes you stop and think that through advertising, women have come to think of features of their own body as "unnatural." And in my mind, that's a lot of what this course is about - discovering the ways in which our conceptions of women's bodies differ from the way women's bodies actually are and WHY there is that difference. Whose interests does that serve?

i think that the presentaiton will be very interesting becasue the book eminates the history of pink think, but what we will be presenting is the current twist n pink think. i think that this comparison will show that despite how riduculous some of the ideas in "pink think" were they are still around but a little better hidden. if anything alot of pink think i beleive is now subliminal. there are many advertisements that do a good job of seeling thier product and eminating what a woman shoudl be-how to look, act, be. i think the presentations will make us all ask why we still do these things. it will also present the new pink think that involves the career woman, and how the corporate world as an example can have lots of pink depite that most f these women in power would never be causght in pink. the idea of power is a new pink think. women who are in power can seem less feminine becasue maybe they downt have children or do not have much time to spend with thier families. women are often put in a tough spot that it has to be one thing or another-have a family or have a career.