Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Thumbs UP to… Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty.

In case you haven’t heard about Dove’s new project, it focuses on how the beauty industry is harming girls today by telling them to be skinny, taller, have bigger boobs, no wrinkles, tan skin, and blonde hair, among other things. Dove gets a thumbs up for finally doing something about this subject that so many people are avoiding. Way to go Dove!

Thumbs Down To…Unilever’s Axe VIXEN creation

You know that great smelling cologne that some guys wear, Axe? Well, it turns out the company isn’t so great. They’ve designed a new computer program based around something called V.I.X.E.N.S., which stands for Very Interactive Xtremely Entertaining Naughty Supermodels. By downloading this you are able to use your own voice to command them and watch them follow your commands.

I give this program a thumbs down for inappropriate way of entertaining. This is also discriminating against women, saying that all women are good for is to look at. That’s not the case, but this program suggests that it is.

-By Mackenzie, 14

Eye on the Media

The first article that GAB chose to display in our magazine is an advertisement for Vogue Eyewear. The picture shows a supermodel posing almost completely naked. In this picture she is supposed to be selling Vogue sunglasses and instead the reader is more likely to be starring at other places on her body than her eyes. Every day millions and millions of these kinds of ads are put in magazines, with no regard to the millions of female readers. It just goes to show you what people will do to make an ad more appealing to the narrow minded crowd. I personally do not enjoy looking at ads such as these. It degrades women, and makes us seem like this is all we can amount to.

The second article that we chose is an advertisement for the South Pole clothing company. This advertisement shows a woman dressed in high heel shoes, Capri’s, and tights as she gears up to go skiing. When we discussed this ad at our GAB meeting, we all had many things to say about it. My comment was that she must be very talented. I have never met a woman who could actually ski in high heels! This image also makes you think she would rather look “cute” and freeze her butt off, then wear appropriate clothing for the snow.

-By Thalia, 18

Rocks to Her Own Groove

You may be asking yourselves, why G-WAVE? Why create a magazine and blog for girls, by girls? We here at the Girls Advisory Board want to let you know that as girls, we know girls. We know what you want and what’s important to you.We know you want someone to listen to your opinions and your thoughts on things like what real beauty is, and talk about girls like you and us, who are just girls – not movie stars or singers, because right now, no one talks about these things. Most mainstream magazines talk about outer beauty and not inner beauty. We wrote G-WAVE to encourage girls like you to speak up and share those thoughts and opinions. We wrote G-WAVE to give girls like you topics you can relate to, both inside and out. Enjoy!

-Hardy Girls Healthy Women's Girls Advisory Board (GAB)