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Sensationalist headlines and articles written by posters

I guess you're an idiot that didn't already know.

This is news to no one, there are a litany of studies about women and low self-esteem, It's just natural

"Santa doesn't exist"

"oh yeah, show me every chimney in the world then or you're just a liar"

Women have more self-esteem issues in most societies throughout most of time.. hold on, let me get you a list of all of time. Do you know what pedantry means?

Keep believing in Santa my friend, i'm sure if you look through every single chimney in the world you'll find him 😂

It's so intellectually lazy, it's like saying "based off evidence we don't think Santa is true", but you want a camera in every chimney, Pedantry at its best.

If you are being intellectually honest with yourself and you can't think of one culture, maybe there's a problem

That's not how that works, you can't prove a negative.

Do you know one where this is not the case?  If you can't think of a single exception on your own, maybe that indicates a pattern with nature.

I think it exacerbates what's already there, but I do not see a solution to that, how would you stop that? This article is just an anecdote and not news to anyone. It started with magazines, then MTV, now the Internet... it will never go away. Girls will always find a way to compare themselves to other girls. The only solution is dealing directly with the women that are being advertised to. Self-esteem starts from within.. putting blinders on these girls won't help. I'm sorry if I come off as impatient.. It's hard to be compassionate when you see things like this

Women, especially going through puberty, are going to have more self image issues. We are always trying to find someone to blame. Is it unnatural to say that boys have more risk taking behavior in their teen years? No. So why is this so crazy?

Awww

If it happens in every culture, is it nature or nurture?

I don't know a single teenage girl that hasn't gotten anxious and thought it was about her body image, it's nature

So?

Like some sort of Ledger?

It's funny, as kids we start with a doll, and desire to make it more and more realistic, until it becomes too realistic and we want to destroy it

That's because it's not about gender, it's about religion and control