Caroline Heldman, Ph.D., assistant professor of politics at Occidental College, writes in Ms. Magazine that media consumption, especially of fashion magazines, is bad for women’s mental health:
My research with college age women indicates that the less women consume media, the less they self-objectify, particularly if they avoid fashion magazines. By shutting out media, girls and women can create mental and emotional space for true self-exploration.
Parents of daughters, are you listening?
Although one might take this as prejudice and a seeking for rationalized agreement with that established belief.
“Men’s” magazines probably are bad for mental health too. Not to mention, Science, Nature, National Geographic and Wall Street Journal.
L DeGroff
April 30th, 2008
Certainly the WSJ, since Murdoch bought it!
Satchel
April 30th, 2008