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Whatever the cause-and-effect relationship, most comics demonstrate through their design and marketing that they view male readers as essential, and any women who want to read along are welcome as long as they don’t insist on any of that icky frilly-girly stuff like you find in Twilight. Typically, female comics fans who speak out on this issue from a feminist perspective are roundly and rudely shouted down, sometimes from the podium. →

Camp ‘Breaking Dawn’ and the ‘Twilight’ of the boys club, Rob Salkowitz

Their first success was Seventeen’s magazine promise “not to change the faces or body size of their models, to listen to readers’ feedback and to celebrate beauty in all of its diverse shapes, sizes and colors”

Now, these teen girls are asking Teen Vogue to follow suite and pledge to not use Photoshop to change their models. Sign the change.org petition and ask Teen Vogue to help give girls realistic models.

http://www.change.org/petitions/teen-vogue-give-us-images-of-real-girls