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Pattie Thomas…”Our” Rachel Maddow? Check this out!
by Dr. Deah on Jan.20, 2011, under Tasty Morsels: by Dr. Deah Schwartz
Pattie Thomas has just been given the chance to speak for so many people as a blogger for Psychology Today.
The timing of Pattie’s first blog is especially meaningful considering the December, 2010 issue of Psychology Today has a bikini clad model with boxing gloves on the cover and the editor’s comments talk about how it’s the biological markers of appearance that fuel our obsession about appearance.” Kaja Perina, editor, admits,” PT may come under fire” for focusing on beauty.” She said, “We’re superficial not because we’re brainwashed but because genetic clues to health and fitness really are skin deep.” She continues to say, “The way we talk and think about appearances could use a a radical makeover.” Why then, if the focus of the magazine is to underscore that the articles are not focusing on the “How of beauty” but the “Why of beauty” did they have a super model on the front cover, half of her head edited out and a layout that would make an innocent browser think it was the latest issue of Maxim?
Because I don’t know at what point people are “getting to know me,” I always feel compelled to reiterate that I am NOT a size-ist. Some of my best friends are….(fill in the blank, I go both ways). I just believe in the spirit of fair and equal representation, for people of all shapes and sizes and self-and cultural acceptance for all shapes and sizes.
Pattie is offering a voice that rarely gets heard in the mainstream media. Right now in my opinion, she is the Rachel Maddow of the Size Diversity Movement
January 21st, 2011 on 1:50 am
Yes, I agree. She has a great insight, and a wealth of knowledge!
January 21st, 2011 on 2:14 am
The mixed messages of what is deemed important and by whom creates a reluctancy to come out into the open because who is listening? So when a voice is this clear, clarity is the key, comes along we do need to stop and give great pause to the possibility of this voice getting louder. A visual image is sometimes even more evocative than a spoken word, the impact and what that image implies goes deep into the psyche and takes years or never for those impacts to surface which creates a poor self image for anyone who does take it in, especially damaging to young teenage girls. As adults, we have a great responsibility to those who are following, we need to tell them what we know and empower them with that knowledge. I find my friends who have children have sent them into the world with a great toolbox of how to’s, I am in awe of these kids and what they are doing with their lives. I think it is because these kids received a very clear view of who they are from their parents, their teachers, their peers and not from the media. These are critical thinkers, I applaud them and I say Bravo to the parents.
Thank you for a place to join in
Amy Siegel
February 4th, 2011 on 4:43 pm
maybe i’m thinking about this too simplistically, but perhaps the magazine was pandering a bit in the interest of sales… or, if you prefer a nobler ambition, luring the reader in for the greater good; the article being the greater good, of course. just a thought…