Auditions!

Just to let everyone know, auditions for this year’s performance of the Vagina Monologues will be THIS Wednesday night (11/12) from 6:45 to 11:30 pm.

Please signup for an audition slot in the Campus Center.

See you Wednesday night!

Article about Men, Self Image, and “Beautiful” women in Magazines

An article called, ” Steamy mags bad for men’s body image, too: Guys who check out sexy models feel like they don’t measure up, study says” was posted yesterday on MSNBC.com

I think it is important to talk about men’s body image, but I am also deeply distrubed the masoginistic and heteronormativity of this article and the survey’s it uses to back up.

Read the article for your self, but basically it talks about men who look at magazines like Maxim and the like, have lowered self image and heightened anxiety after looking at images of “beauitful” women. The sruvey tries is argued to show that men feel less attractive when they look at women they deemed extremely extracitve.

I think this whole article and the surveys included reek of a web of serious issues and assumptions. First of all, it makes me feel like they are blaming women for their self image. It also places women as an object of sexual desire, entangling this male self image with based on the fact that there is this “ideally sexualized” woman, which causes them to feel bad about themselves because they dont think “a girl like her” would have sex with them. Because OBVIOUSLY the women in the magazine are straight, or into men, or available for sleeping with them, like it’s their sole duty. like the only thing holding the men back from the sex they COULD have with these women is their own appearance (ie of COURSE these women want to have sex with them…)As if the women are supposed to be in a men’s magazine anyway? And dont just lump all men in the same category, make sure the call it “straight men’s magazines”. Call your target audience.

 

I know that this probably is coming out very jumbled, but take a look. And hopefully you will feel enraged too.

 

Basically, thanks for all of the assumptions in your survey, and for blaming women for men’s lowered self image.

thank you!

thank you so much to everyone who came to Kathleen’s talk tonight in Thomas Great Hall! It was such a great talk and wonderful to see so many people there!

Don’t forget coffee hour tomorrow, co-sponsored by Active Minds and Body Image Council!

Events for THIS WEEK

So, first off, *GO VOTE*

please vote. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. THIS TUESDAY. BMC students who are reigstered to vote using their school address, you are voting at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church (turn left onto Montgomery from Morris Ave and keep walking past Baldwin and Harcum).

our monthly council meeting will be Wednesday (11/5) at 9:30 am in the Health Center Counseling center. we’ll talk about our ideas for the upcoming months and other things. All are invited to come!

Wednesday, 11/5, the Eating Issues and Body Image support group meets at 4pm. Because the heat hasnt bee working in the women’s center, they have decided to move the meetings to the counseling center basemesnt. if you have any questions about this, or any at all about the group, please email Shobhi at skanal@brynmawr.edu

Thursday, 11/6, our fall speaker, Kathleen MacDonald will be here. She’s doing workshops with health and counseling center staff, coaches, and residential life. She will be speaking in an open campus talk at 7:30 in TGH Thursday night. Freshmen, this is a required event if you are in wellness right now.

Friday, 11/7, Body Image Council and Active Minds will co-host coffee hour from 9:30 to 11:00 in Thomas Great Hall. Looking forward to seeing you there.

From the News Desk

Food as A Weapon

An estimated 15 percent of U.S. college students have eating disorders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So chances are, most of us know someone with an eating disorder.

Jane Fonda to speak on eating disorders in Philly

New Clinic In North Hampton to Treat Eating Disorders

The most lethal of mental illnesses, eating disorders affect about 4 percent of the population, according to Smith. As the disease has been recognized and studied, more programs have become available in recent years. To date, however, services are limited in Western Massachusetts.

“There is a plethora of services in eastern Massachusetts,” Smith said. “Once you go west at all, there are no specialized programs.”