Join The New Agenda in celebrating the #Proud2Bme 3-Day Challenge!
Are you tired of feeling like you can never measure up? According to mainstream media, we should be spending our time chasing “perfection,” snarking on others, and placing our self-worth in our looks. We’re over it! The #Proud2Bme campaign is a 3-day social media challenge to celebrate who we are and stop the media madness.
When: October 11-13th
Who: You and all your friends
What: #Proud2Bme 3-Day Challenge- check out the description below and click on the links to participate
RSVP: On Facebook and let us know you are in!
Day 1 (October 11th): Pledge to Show the REAL You
Magazines use Photoshop to alter nearly every image we see. They trim away hips, lighten skin, draw in cleavage and more. Now we’re starting to feel like we have to change ourselves too. Nearly 30% of girls said that they’ve edited photos of themselves before posting online. Take our pledge to show the world what beauty really looks like. Take the Pledge!
Day 2 (October 12th): Tweet at the Media Bodysnarkers
It’s time to call out tabloids and blogs that pick on celebrities for weight gain, weight loss, cellulite, wrinkles, pimples, and other human happenings. They send a terrible message about how we should treat others. Bodysnarking isn’t entertainment—it’s bullying. Send a message!
Day 3 (October 13th): Share a Proud2Bme Compliment
Hey, guess what? Our talents matter more than our makeup. Our dreams hold more weight than the number on the scale. We love our friends because of who they are and what they do—not what they look like. So let’s tell them! Share a Proud2Bme card (or create your own) and spread the word that we are more than our looks. Compliment a friend!
We’ll be using the #Proud2Bme hashtag. You can follow Proud2Bme @Proud2BmeUS
Proud2Bme is also hosting a free one-day summit for young people ages 13-22 next Saturday, 10/13. The keynote speaker is Julia Bluhm, the all-around awesome teen activist who started the petition to Seventeen asking them to drop the Photoshop.
Did you also know that on Oct. 17th it is the 15th annual Love Your Body Day? October is turning out to be Rocktober!!! So much love your self emphasis it is wonderful Have you seen the horrible Cheerios box by the way? It says that the reason to eat their cereal is so there will be less of you. What if I like being all of me? This isn’t spam, I’m just sharing a link with you about the cereal if you want to read it. Warmly, Dr. Deah Schwartz
http://www.drdeah.com/cereal-killer/
Great idea! Going beyond this event there is no reason for girls and young women to accept the garbage that Corporate Media serves up labeled as “Women’s Content”. It is brave to try to change Corporate Media but it is probably a waste of time and energy, these people do not even consider you their audience, they consider the men who purchase ads in their ad venues their only customers. I would love to see today’s girls creating their own women’s media without the interference or permission or Corporate Media and their advertisers. With the internet it should not cost much to start up.
I agree Bes! Remember how powerful the anti Go Daddy movement was during the Super Bowl? We bombarded them with the message that their ads were misogynist and offensive and last I checked they halted that entire ad campaign. In my work, while I urge my clients to celebrate events such as the one Proud 2BE is promoting and Love Your Body Day and International No Diet Day, etc. shouldn’t EVERY day be Love Your Body Day?