We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed, shared and commented so far! Over halfway through June already and summer seems to finally have arrived!
As the sun comes out, many newspapers and magazines predictably pull out their annual 'how to look good in a bikini' features or feel obliged to show us how fantastic / dreadful other women are looking in theirs - PLEASE STOP!
Women are more than their faces and bodies. Women are more than what they wear. Women are more than the narrowly defined, limiting feminine stereotypes presented all too often by the media.
For anyone in need of a good dose of positive, healthy role modelling, have a look at this great blog which campaigns to remind women and girls that they are capable of much more than being looked at:
http://www.beautyredefined.net/
Of course, it is not just women affected by harmful and constricting media stereotypes.
Sexism in the media and in our culture affects us all negatively. Prescribing what men or women should do, be or look like means that we cannot be truly free to choose for ourselves. Anyone who speaks out or makes choices which do not fit neatly into these boxes risks being criticised, undermined or worse.
This is our city and we are all in this together.
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