The first and only issue of Seventeen Magazine arrived at my home when I was almost 16 years old. My father took one look at the magazine cover, which boldly highlighted the word “sex” five times, and immediately cancelled my subscription. I wasn’t having sex at that age, but Seventeen Magazine, who is well aware […]
If you don’t know the answer to a question, who says you don’t have to answer? Any math answer is better than none, at least in the minds of these smart alecs who have some pretty funny math answers (proving when desperate, kids say the darnedest things): Challenge the teacher right back: Follow instructions literally: […]
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Love it! I could never have answered like this when I was in school, though. I was always a pleaser and would never do anything that would make me look like a smart alec.
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Love it. Some I have seen before but others I haven’t. Even called Tobei over to see the ones that were new to us.
The autumn is a beautiful time of year in New York City. The leaves are changing colors, the air is crisp, and everywhere vibrant pumpkins and shades of red and gold decorate homes and stores, ready for the upcoming holidays. Autumn is also a time of year where beauty routines need to change, because the […]
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I so so so need be drinking more water! Great tips!
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Oh moisturizing is sooo important. I have to bring this up constantly to the kids.Thanks for sharing these tips
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I drink lots of water each day and glad that I love water!
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Great advice! I tend to be oily in the t-zone and drier than the desert everywhere else. It’s hard to find the right products whether for moisturizing or in makeup. I’ll definitely keep these tips in mind! Thanks!
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Great beauty tips
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I need to be more diligent about moisturizing. I get lazy.
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Thanks for sharing your tips. I really need to be drinking more water.
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Great tips, it is indefinably time for some beauty changes this season!
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The only thing I do different is lighten my hair a little. During the summer it gets too light, so I darken a bit then.
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I cannot say enough times, drink water, stay hydrated, you will thank yourself later:) My skin has always looked healthy for the most part. Great tips!
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Such great tips! I have no idea what season my coloring is best suited to.
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I notice that using central heating can take a big toll on skin and hair dryness also.I have to up the moisturizing products big time in the fall. I definitely choose wamer colors more in the fall also.
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I’m definitely feeling the dryness of Fall- I need to drink more water!
Do you crave chocolate? Does the idea of a chocolate-filled life make everything seem sweeter? If so, Dove Chocolate may have an opportunity for you. I was always told that if you do what you love, you never work a day of your life. I love writing, so being a mom blogger is an ideal […]
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I got a feeling this could be very lucrative… I mean, who doesn’t love chocolate!
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This looks like an awesome set! And what’s easier to sell than Chocolate? Nothing!
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thanks for the chance to win
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This sounds great! I`ve never been to a chocolate party.
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Those chocolate covered strawberries look great. In fact the whole thing looks yummy!
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I love Dove Chocolates!
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This looks great! Thanks for the giveaway!
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This sounds like a wonderful and creative way to bring extra income into our home. Thanks so much for this giveaway.
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I love chocolate, it’s part of my daily routine.
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What a greaat way to appeal to us ladies “CHOCOLATE” and Dove at that
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YUM chocolate!
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I am a huge chocolate lover and this looks like so much fun! To make money doing something you love is everyone’s wish!
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Wow…I LOVE this idea! And I would go to as many of the parties as I possibly could! 😀 Thanks for the giveaway, too; Dove Chocolate is the BEST!!
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I would love to win this~Thanks for the chance 🙂
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Dove is my favorite chocolate and I think this would send me over the moon! Thank you!
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I would like to win the Dove Chocolate Discoveries starter kit so I could throw a chocolate tasting party for my girlfriends.
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Thank you for the opportunity to become a Dove Chocolatier.
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Chocolate in itself brings happiness, smiles, pleasure to most and let’s not forget > it certainly does have some aphrodisiac properties. It generates feelings and promotes a sense of well being! Chocolate is magical!
Thumbs up for such a brilliant idea!
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All that chocolate looks amazing!
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WOW WOW WOW – I would LOVE to win this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It looks so yummy!
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Would love to win this… I love Dove Chocolate. What a unique money making idea also.
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What a yummy prize count me in
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I like the dipping tools.
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Oh my, do I love chocolate. Thanks for the giveaway!
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OMG I looooove chocolate! Then again, who doesnt? LOL I’d love to win all this chocolatey goodness!
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Dove Chocolate, simply heaven. I could eat it all day long!
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Dove Chai Tea Chocolates…..I want some!
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Oh my goodness, I do love chocolate. Especially Dove!
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I LOVE CHOCOLATE
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Thank you for this giveaway!!
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Yummmmm! Great idea.
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This kit looks amazing! The fondue set would be great for our Christmas party. I’d love to win!!
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I am an addict, and chocolate is my drug 🙂
I am powerless.
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This would be perfect as I love Dove chocolates!
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This would be a great way to make great presents for Family and friends and if I get good enough maybe make a small business out of it to help the family income
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Amazing and delicious looking package.
Thanks for the chance.
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mmm, that looks so yummy, hope i get a chance to taste it!
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This is such a great idea! Perfect product (who doesn’t love chocolate?!!!) and great idea for a bit of extra income.
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There’s nothing better than chocolate
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wife would love this!
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That hot chocolate flavored with Chai Tea sounds INCREDIBLE!!!
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What a wonderful little kit! Please enter me!
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the wife loves chocolate!
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I’m intrigued. I don’t think anyone around here is doing this, so I’m interested in learning more. Thanks for the chance.
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Yum! Thank you for the chance to win! 🙂
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I would love to try the chocolate chai tea. Nothing’s better than chocolate!
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The combinations you can create with all of this s incredible. Thanks for the chance
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To me it seems odd that there are actually people who do NOT love chocolate. Weird.
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Dove Chocolate Discoveries sounds like a fun company with products that I’d like. Thanks.
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This would be a great win!
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LOVE Dove chocolate. This sounds like a fun way to make a little extra cash.
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Everything looks delicious and your party looks like fun. Chocolate Martinis, Yum!
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What an awesome opportunity!
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What a better way to spend the upcoming cold winter nights than tempting people to buy chocolate.
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i think this would be a really fun opportunity…if I didn’t have 6 small kids to care for constantly i would seriously consider doing it!
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This sounds interesting and we do love chocolate.
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Everything looks delicious. What a wonderful way to spend a girl’s night.
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ALl that looks so good. The chocolate fondue, yummy!
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Chocolate is a favorite of mine.
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i would LOVE to win! Brilliant business idea. who doesnt love chocolate? Though I would be tempted to keep it all for myself. 😉
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I would love to win the Dove Chocolate Discoveries Starter Kit! Thank You for the opportunity! sandrayola@msn.com
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Thanks for such a great opportunity to win something that could change my families life!
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would love to win!!
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Chocolate you can’t go wrong there. Would love to try it out.
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We love chocolate!
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This would be so much fun!!!
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Oh yummy! What a delicious prize!
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What is better than a great group of friends and great chocolate. Way to go Dove
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Who doesn’t love chocolate!? I’d love to share this with friends.
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We love chocolate!
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Would so like to win, chocoalte and goodies are a staple in this house:-)
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looks like so much fun
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This looks like a fun business!
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I’d love to become a chocolatier and make lots of goodies for my family and friends over the holidays.
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chocolate is my drug of choice!
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I would love to win this and make lots of chocolate.
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I’d love to try this!
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This set looks awesome. I love the heart shaped chocolate melter!
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I am always looking for ways to make money. I would love to win.
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This is a really fun idea and very popular with my friends!
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Thanks for the giveaway!
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THIS is truly chocolate heaven, and after the weeks i’ve had, this would be greatly appriciated. Me and my husband would have a ball!!
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I’m a chocoholic and would love to win this great giveaway 🙂
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I would love to try this and share with my friends! Thanks!
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Chocolate are always my favorite desserts.
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I am a huge chocolate lover and would love this
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This would be such a fun thing to do with the girls!
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I would love to win. This would be a great opportunity to get my family and friends together for a party.
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Hoping my likes this win!
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This would be awesomwe to win
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would love this and so would many friends and family of mine!
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I love chocolate! I am interested in checking out the earning potential and also having a great chocolate party!!
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I love chocolate and this looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for the chance!
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I’d like to taste chai tea chocolate drinks.
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This would be great to win,not because I want to sell it, but because I love chocolate.
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I love chocolate
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I would love the starter kit because having a party sounds like a great idea for a stay-at-home business to help bring extra income into our household.
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great giveaway!! thanks for the opportunity.
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This seems like a great idea for a get togehter for me and my friends. There is not one of us who is not a chocolate lover and this would be a great excuse to cheat on the diet a little bit
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I love me some Dove Chocolates.
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I LOVE chocolate! I would love this!
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That is a lot of Dove chocolate and it all looks yummy. Thanks for having the contest!
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I would love to try this kit.
If you are looking for a great gift idea for the cook in your life (your mom, wife, husband, anyone), you need to learn about 360 Cookware. In a nutshell, 360 is a line of cookware that cooks and bakes quickly and evenly on the stovetop on lower heat settings without oil or cooking sprays, […]
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Putting this on my wish list for Christmas!
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This is on my Christmas list.
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This looks awesome and oh so roomy. The problem I have is trying to find a pan big enough to cook for our big family in. This looks perfect.
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Looks like some great cookware, I really need some new stuff so I’ll have to check it out a little more!
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Did you have any issues with sticking? I have a stainless steel set and they all stick so bad.
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I like the new blog look!
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I love making our home cozy, but find cooking a challenge even after 16 years. Haven’t heard of this cookware. Wonder if it could help?
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Great looking pans. I am going to go check them out!
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If the food sticks at all, you heat it up more and it unsticks (designed to do this) and it’s so easy to clean, even if you burn something by accident.
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I’ve heard amazing things about this cookware! It’s definitely on my wishlist for Christmas.
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That’s a great looking saute pan. I really have to invest in some quality cookware. I will check out your full review.
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I’m really intrigued by this cookware.. I’ve seen it around the blogsphere a lot lately!
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I have read several reviews on this cookware now and all of them were raves. I think I might have to add some to my Christmas list.
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I’m showing hubby as we speak. I can always use new cookware as I cook a lot! Looks great!
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My husband won’t use stainless steel, but I like it.
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I have heard wonderful things about this line of cookware!
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Oooooooooo…. I want and I NEED!
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Always on the lookout for better cookware so this will be at the top of my list this year.
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What a perfect holiday gift for my hubs, who loves to cook!
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Ohhh I don’t even cook much and I want that!
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You know I read Seventeen way back in my teen years and I don’t remember it being this bad. I certainly wouldn’t want my teenage daughter (or son) reading about how to be a good hookup and I can’t believe this is what we market to our youth. I agree – shame on you Seventeen.
Yeah, I’m NOT okay with this. Why would they actively promote such a thing!? That is seriously messed up.
Ugh. I never purchased Seventeen except once, and I have to say it mentioned many things in their about sex. How sad. They should really be teaching our girls other things, not sexual behavior. They got the fashion on the money, but how to be a flirt, be the best hookup, and that is only on the front cover.
This is one magazine that my daughter will NOT be allowed to read, for sure!
I really can’t believe they published something like that! Sometimes I’m glad I don’t have a daughter.
Thanks for this post, I didn’t have a clue… although my children are younger than school age, this is a very scary thing! I read seventeen magazine back in my day as well, and I can assure you, it was nothing like this! What happened to age appropriate makeup tips, fashion, etc.?? This just shows how warped our society has become! Thumbs up on your post, thumbs down seventeen magazine!
So sad that this is what is being shoved in our teens faces. Another reason to parent closer, and let our teens know where we stand on topics. My daughter just turned 9 and I have already had to tell her where I stand about kissing boys and sex. Thought I would have a few more years before that talk, but society puts too much pressure on kids even when you are a very close parent and do your best at parenting. We need a positive power teen magazine for positive thinking skills not how to catch boys attention!
I am so sick and tired of magazines and TV pushing sex onto our kids. Just about every magazine and TV show targeting teens, talk about sex or sexual innuendos. Teens are bombarded with it in the media. Enough already. Shame on you Seventeen!
I remember reading 17 when I was fairly young – 14 maybe? And it wasn’t that bad at all. I wouldn’t want my daughter reading whatever comes after that headline. Sad that we as a society are willing to do whatever it takes to make a buck…even demeaning young girls. This is why our civilization is headed to the toilet and young girls think it’s cool to get pregnant.
Gross. Someone should really get fired for putting that on the cover. I’m all for educating teenagers about sex, but that? Is totally not the type of education teenage girls need.
Wow, just wow. I only pay attention to All You Magazine for the coupons. I’ve never read Seventeen and I cant believe this.
And this is why I never read Seventeen magazine – I was always a Sassy girl. Seventeen and YM were always posting photos of girls with their pants unbuttoned, even back in the early 90’s!
Yes, they are that bad! Ive looked thru them before and was shocked at the letters that the magazine encourages the girls to write in about different experiences with boys! Some are very explicit and more experienced than teenagers need to be. One was about her boyfriend “eating her out” every weekend in her bedroom. Really…. and the girls sound proud of their exploits!
Ugh. Just…ugh.
Wow, I’m speechless! This is unacceptable.
What company publishes this magazine?
Ugh, this is why I will never let my daughters read magazines like these. They are always full of such trash and bad advice. Not to mention their air brushing and false view of what’s “beautiful”.
I have to say I’m pretty un-strict with my children in many things but I don’t like this at all.
I’ll be keeping that magazine away from my teenagers!
Wow, that is pretty sad.
This is pretty infuriating. They should seriously take a look at themselves. Not cool.
That is ridiculous and unacceptable.
What a great blog and post! I am in 100% agreement with the point you make here. So sad the message the world is passing on to young women. So glad to have met you through Twitter!
It’s really disgusting. I’m scared for the world my daughter will grown up in.
It gets even better:
“How to Hook Up” – http://www.seventeen.com/love/advice/how-to-hook-up
“How to be a Good Hook Up” – http://www.seventeen.com/love/advice/hookup-dos
Shame on them, indeed.
WOW 17 used to be one of my favorite magazines well 20 yrs ago but I’m really shocked that they have that in there
I just saw a cover with one of the girls from Glee on it and in the magazine she’s talking about how she’s hooked up with girls in the past to turn guys on and that her kisses on screen weren’t the first girl-girl kisses she’s had. Such a bad example to set.
When I was a teenager, my dad would read through the magazine first and tear out the pages that were inappropriate. Eventually he just canceled it! As a mom who is raising (twin) sons, I’m scared to death of the girls out there that are just so willing!
Great post! Pathetic, 17. Truly Pathetic. I haven’t paid that much attention to what is going with 17 magazine, but I am not surprised. I have watched Cosmopolitan turn into nothing more than a sex rag over the years. I was glad to see that Publix at least puts a shield over the cover. Every month, the majority of the cover headlines involve sex. How ironic! The first magazine of the women’s lib generation — when the cry was, “I am not a sex object!” and yet now, 40 years later, that’s what they are all about. Going to do some research — I wonder if 17 and Cosmo are owned by the same company.
That’s exactly how I feel…if empowerment meant we were not to be sex objects but instead respected for our minds and as equals worthy of the same dignity and rights, why do we want to teach our daughters to care what men think of her sexually compared to other women, or anything like that? When are we going to teach them what we should really be measured by?
Then again, Gloria Steinem was a proud playboy bunny and felt this gave her power over men, so I really don’t understand the point of it all…refuse to let men pay for dates or hold the door open, but insist they grade your sexual prowess and watch you prance around in underwear? Letting men judge you in comparison to other women is a win for the sisterhood?
Brilliantly spoken, Penelope! There are so many layers to what is wrong with this picture that it is hard to articulate it fully, and I think you have brought up a part of problem that I had not recognized before. Since when did Women’s liberation mean free to do anybody? Crazy! We are more than rutting animals! And I checked it out — Cosmo and 17 are both owned by the Hearst empire.
Everytime I read an article lije this I sigh of relief comes out . thank God there aré still people with common sense!! What in the world is wrong with these irresponsable people who publish this crap to our daughters?
That’s scary to even think about, especially since I have 2 girls. Its sad all that companies know how to market to tweens and teens are sexual messages.
On the plus side, Taylor Launter is hot.
Wow. That is ridiculous. My daughter hasn’t turned one yet, but I can only imagine what these magazines will be publishing in 10 years when she’s old enough to read them. It’s a scary thought, really.
Wow. I’m speechless! I got Seventeen when I was around that age and I don’t remember it, though I don’t expect to. But man, that is just horrible.
Shame on them.
This makes me sick…and yes, it encourages young girls and makes them think it’s okay…which it is not!
I am so glad you posted this, I cruise through the magazine aisle and I am appalled by what they put on the pages.
Sickening. I could careless what people thought about my looks as long as I was happy with myself.
LOVE this post and as a mother of 2 daughters, totally agree. Although it isn’t for 12-16yr olds, I’d invite any parent to check our Discovery Girls magazine, more for tweens, but very positive for female empowerment and self esteem!
Hell YES he is. I can’t watch Shark Boy & Lava Girl (where he was like 10) without feeling guilty for liking him NOW.