15 Jul 2010

Seventeen Magazine just got schooled by Tavi

See anything wrong with the June/July 2010 cover of Seventeen Magazine? I didn’t at first. The 13 or 14 year old blogger of Style Rookie, Tavi Gevinson, however,  has just written an open letter to Seventeen Magazine slamming them for their bottom right corner headline: The Party Drug That Can Make You Fat & Ugly.

In the letter, Tavi questions the magazine’s threat to appearance when the main issue should be the damage to your health and body from party drugs.

“By trying to discourage the use of drugs with the threats that it will make someone fat and ugly,” she wrote, “you’re saying the worst thing that can happen to your average reader, a teenage girl, as a result of drug use, is not that she will have any damage done to her brain or become unhappy, but that her appearance will suffer.”

The girl has got a point. Tavi | 1 Seventeen Magazine | 0

I’m interested to see how Seventeen Magazine will respond to that.

To read the rest of the letter, click here

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