A shocking internet survey has revealed that more and more teenage girls aspire to be glamour models rather than teachers or doctors.
The survey that was created by mobile entertainment providers www.thelab.TV, asked 1000 girls aged between 15 to 19 what kind of career they hoped for in the future. The results were published on the Manchester Evening News website. 63% of girls who participated saw glamour modelling as a decent job as apposed to the 3% that chose teaching. Despite being taken three years ago, the survey shows the shocking changes in what young girls consider to be good careers and how the constant bombardment of images of glamour models on the cover of men’s magazines.
Out of the 63% that chose glamour modelling as their goal, 33% saw Katie Price as their role model whereas only 9% of the girls in the whole survey chose J.K.Rowling as their role model. Among other popular role models were Chantelle, Abi Titmuss and Jodie Marsh.
Not only has this survey given some unbelievable results but they seem to be coming true. The number of girls aged 18 to 19 who are having breast enlargements has risen to 150% it was reported by cosmetic surgery clinics across Britain.
Spokesman Shami Choudhry was quoted by The Sun saying that he blames the influence of famous female celebrities who have had breast augmentations for this alarming increase.
What is even more saddening is the fact that 15 year olds are not the youngest that are being affected. The extreme case of 11 year old Sasha Bennington was made into a documentary called ‘Sasha: Beauty Queen at 11’ which aired earlier this year. It told the tragic story of an 11 year old girl whose mother, Jayne, had drilled into her daughter that being a glamour model was all her daughter could do. Since the tender age of 8 her mother had been covering her daughter face in make up and applying false eyelashes. Now that she has just turned 12, Sasha has her hair bleached monthly and a fake tan each week along with other beauty treatments leading to a £300 bill each month. Sasha’s modelling portfolio looks more like what an 18 year old model would look like as Sasha is pictured wearing a lot of make up and very un-childlike. Her mother then parades her around the world in various beauty pageants.
When Jayne was asked by the Daily Mail for her response to the accusations of child cruelty she replied “People can say what they want. I know there is nothing bad about what I'm doing. I'm just helping my daughter make something of her life. Any good mum would do the same.”
Sasha is one of the very rare cases but as more and more women become glamour models and pose on the front covers of magazines more and more teenage girls will aspire to be like them.
Thursday 30 October 2008
Saturday 25 October 2008
PIZZA HUT GOES PASTA HUT FOR NEW HEALTHY EATING BID
One of Britain’s favourite restaurant chains is set to change its name and its menu to entice new customers.
Pizza Hut came to Britain in 1973 and has been one of the most popular places to eat since so it came as a huge shop that one of Britain’s favourite household names was to take on a completely different look and name. The rebranding comes as part of a £18 million revamp package designed to bring in new customers and move the chain into more up market territory.
Pizza Hut’s boss, Alasdair Murdoch, told the telegraph “we’ve been on a journey for four or five years, trying to make our food better”.
“We’re trying to say to people: ‘yes, we’re great at pizzas, but we’re also great at salads and pasta’. Pasta is around 3 or 4 percent of our sales, I’m very sure in a couple of week’s time that will be 10 percent”.
As well as the various new pasta dishes which include a spinach and ricotta cannelloni, a meatball tagliatelle and even a traditional lasagne, Mr Murdoch had also said that Pasta Hut will be upgrading it’s salad bar and improving the quality of ingredients used in it’s pizzas.
Changing the name is obviously a very risky move for such a popular chain which is why My Murdoch insists that this is just a trial run and they are very interested to her responses from customers. On their redesigned website people can vote on a poll whether or not they like the changes but so far, all though not an accurate poll, 81 percent have voted against the change to Pasta Hut.
Beth Williams, a Pizza Hut fan, said ‘ I know the whole name change is just part of Pizza Hut’s campaign on healthy eating, but come on, Pizza Hut was invented to sell gorgeous and mouth-watering pizzas, with some nice pasta and salad on the side’.
We can only wait and see if this revamp of Pizza Hut will be warmed to by customers but until then Pasta Hut remains significantly unpopular.
Pizza Hut came to Britain in 1973 and has been one of the most popular places to eat since so it came as a huge shop that one of Britain’s favourite household names was to take on a completely different look and name. The rebranding comes as part of a £18 million revamp package designed to bring in new customers and move the chain into more up market territory.
Pizza Hut’s boss, Alasdair Murdoch, told the telegraph “we’ve been on a journey for four or five years, trying to make our food better”.
“We’re trying to say to people: ‘yes, we’re great at pizzas, but we’re also great at salads and pasta’. Pasta is around 3 or 4 percent of our sales, I’m very sure in a couple of week’s time that will be 10 percent”.
As well as the various new pasta dishes which include a spinach and ricotta cannelloni, a meatball tagliatelle and even a traditional lasagne, Mr Murdoch had also said that Pasta Hut will be upgrading it’s salad bar and improving the quality of ingredients used in it’s pizzas.
Changing the name is obviously a very risky move for such a popular chain which is why My Murdoch insists that this is just a trial run and they are very interested to her responses from customers. On their redesigned website people can vote on a poll whether or not they like the changes but so far, all though not an accurate poll, 81 percent have voted against the change to Pasta Hut.
Beth Williams, a Pizza Hut fan, said ‘ I know the whole name change is just part of Pizza Hut’s campaign on healthy eating, but come on, Pizza Hut was invented to sell gorgeous and mouth-watering pizzas, with some nice pasta and salad on the side’.
We can only wait and see if this revamp of Pizza Hut will be warmed to by customers but until then Pasta Hut remains significantly unpopular.
AN INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER
Jennifer’s life took a spin when she was involved in a car accident aged 12 on her way home from a dance competition but it hasn’t stopped dancing from being one of her main hobbies six years on along with reading her favourite magazines, socialising with her friends and shopping. The 18 year old student from Nuneaton, who currently works in Superdrug, is studying Journalism and Media at Coventry University. She chose the subject because she enjoyed studying Media Studies at college and also enjoys writing, whether it’s fact or fiction. She hopes that she can one day write for a magazine about her favourite interests’ music and fashion. I asked her why she was so interested in these subjects and she was happy to explain. She told me her favourite music was ‘rock and metal’ and that ‘I don’t have a favourite because there are so many bands that I like’. On the fashion side, her two idols are Sarah Jessica Parker because she loves Sex and the City and SJP’s style and ‘her shoes!’ but she also really likes Dita Von Teese because ‘Burlesque really interests me and she has a really nice style’. In contrast to this burlesque loving rock and metal fan, her favourite film is the children’s classic ‘Lady and the Tramp’ as well as many other Disney films. Jennifer Bates, known to her friends as Jen, also likes to spend time with her long term boyfriend Jason who she has been with for a year and a half. She gets to see him a lot as she does not live in student accommodation and commutes to her lectures by bus from her home. She has only been out in Coventry twice since starting the University 3 weeks ago but thinks ‘Jumping Jacks’ is her favourite club. She does love to go out and party with her mates but says her most embarrassing moment was when she got very drunk and passed out her friend’s house. Her friends then drew on her face and took photos and when she woke up she then tried to remove the pen marks with vodka which left her face feeling slightly ‘burnt’.
FEMINISTS ATTACK SITE AS IT MAKES WOMEN 'INSECURE'
Feminist group ‘About-Face’ attack website over claims that it promotes young girls to diet and have plastic surgery.
MissBimbo.com has become one of the most controversial websites after a feminist group calls for the website to be shut down. The Miss Bimbo website is an English version of the original Ma Bimbo created by Blouzar Ltd, which was a huge success in France, and has attracted over 2 million people world wide into playing the game but there has also been a huge question of debate as to the games nature.
The game seems pretty simple and very feminine as you begin with animated girl which is effectively your ‘bimbo’. In order to progress in the game you must complete goals which include finding a boyfriend, buying new clothes, changing hairstyles and what people are finding most serious getting plastic surgery. You must also keep your bimbo happy by keeping her at her ideal weight but other aspects of the game have been overlooked such as the forum which has allowed players to make new friends and discuss personal problems about life matters and the forum has acted as an important advice giver for many of Miss Bimbo’s players.
To the players (the average age of the players being 19.1) it appears to be a normal game where they feed their bimbo, dress their bimbos and even play various games as well as talking on the forum but many people, especially parents, are now becoming concerned with the message that the game maybe sending out to young girls.
A recent attack on the site by the feminist group ‘About-Face’ has brought to light to light once more the issue of whether this very popular site has any influence on the thousands of teenage girls that play on it. One member of ‘About-Face’ emailed the creators of Miss Bimbo, Chris Evans and Nicolas Jacquart, saying ‘I do not feel that it is ok to allow other’s who are already insecure about the way they look to feel that they can fix it through playing a game’.
I spoke to Mr Evans who replied to this comment by saying ‘of course if we are making insecure people even more insecure then that is a concern to us all’ but he also pointed out that Miss Bimbo is not meant to be taken seriously. The reaction of the Miss Bimbo players, many of whom are adult women, has been similar with one saying ‘I believe most of the women on Miss Bimbo are secure enough to think for themselves and be able to enjoy the girlyness and satire of this site’.
The media coverage of the site has also been one of a critical view with many condemning the site but the creators of the site feel it is only because they do not understand the site. Jacquart has said that he is looking into expanding the site so that the media can take the time to understand why 75,000 people log into the site each day. The debate rages on between the two sides as the site continues to be under fire.
MissBimbo.com has become one of the most controversial websites after a feminist group calls for the website to be shut down. The Miss Bimbo website is an English version of the original Ma Bimbo created by Blouzar Ltd, which was a huge success in France, and has attracted over 2 million people world wide into playing the game but there has also been a huge question of debate as to the games nature.
The game seems pretty simple and very feminine as you begin with animated girl which is effectively your ‘bimbo’. In order to progress in the game you must complete goals which include finding a boyfriend, buying new clothes, changing hairstyles and what people are finding most serious getting plastic surgery. You must also keep your bimbo happy by keeping her at her ideal weight but other aspects of the game have been overlooked such as the forum which has allowed players to make new friends and discuss personal problems about life matters and the forum has acted as an important advice giver for many of Miss Bimbo’s players.
To the players (the average age of the players being 19.1) it appears to be a normal game where they feed their bimbo, dress their bimbos and even play various games as well as talking on the forum but many people, especially parents, are now becoming concerned with the message that the game maybe sending out to young girls.
A recent attack on the site by the feminist group ‘About-Face’ has brought to light to light once more the issue of whether this very popular site has any influence on the thousands of teenage girls that play on it. One member of ‘About-Face’ emailed the creators of Miss Bimbo, Chris Evans and Nicolas Jacquart, saying ‘I do not feel that it is ok to allow other’s who are already insecure about the way they look to feel that they can fix it through playing a game’.
I spoke to Mr Evans who replied to this comment by saying ‘of course if we are making insecure people even more insecure then that is a concern to us all’ but he also pointed out that Miss Bimbo is not meant to be taken seriously. The reaction of the Miss Bimbo players, many of whom are adult women, has been similar with one saying ‘I believe most of the women on Miss Bimbo are secure enough to think for themselves and be able to enjoy the girlyness and satire of this site’.
The media coverage of the site has also been one of a critical view with many condemning the site but the creators of the site feel it is only because they do not understand the site. Jacquart has said that he is looking into expanding the site so that the media can take the time to understand why 75,000 people log into the site each day. The debate rages on between the two sides as the site continues to be under fire.
BB BEX AT FRESHERS BALL
The Official Fresher’s Ball of 2008 took place opposite Coventry Cathedral on the 24th September and was host to many acts including ‘The Saturdays’ and Big Brother 9 and Coventry’s very own Bex.
It was probably the biggest event of Fresher’s week and was definitely a must for first time students to attend. The Ball took place in the Big Top which was a large tent that was erected in the University Square especially for Coventry University Fresher week which took place between the 20th and the 28th September. It was a great chance for the fresher’s to get to know each other even more and the cost of tickets all went towards the CUSU (Coventry University Student Union) which makes the whole University experience a whole lot better for the students of Coventry.
For the lucky few students who managed to get hold of VIP tickets, which were in short supply, they could even meet the acts backstage and speak to them. Overall, over a thousand tickets were sold for the event and the tent was bustling with people dancing and drinking and generally having a good time just being Fresher’s before the hard work of University life kicks in next week when their real lectures begin.
All acts performed, well Bex stood there, but the other acts were welcomed by the students and everyone appeared to be having a really good time. After Bex made a hasty exit off stage, because her arrival was poorly received by the students, she returned later in the night to spend some more time with her devoted fans who had all been eagerly awaiting her arrival.
Amongst the crowds, a few people did tear themselves away from the party just to tell me exactly what they thought of the night. Criminology student Karen Leak, 18, ‘found the ball a pleasant night out with her mates and a great chance to meet new people as well as cheap booze’ and she wasn’t the only one who discovered the cheap prices at the bar as it was jammed packed all night and when they weren’t at the bar the students were dancing the night away inside the Big Top until the Ball came to an end in the early hours of the next morning. It was definitely a night to remember.
It was probably the biggest event of Fresher’s week and was definitely a must for first time students to attend. The Ball took place in the Big Top which was a large tent that was erected in the University Square especially for Coventry University Fresher week which took place between the 20th and the 28th September. It was a great chance for the fresher’s to get to know each other even more and the cost of tickets all went towards the CUSU (Coventry University Student Union) which makes the whole University experience a whole lot better for the students of Coventry.
For the lucky few students who managed to get hold of VIP tickets, which were in short supply, they could even meet the acts backstage and speak to them. Overall, over a thousand tickets were sold for the event and the tent was bustling with people dancing and drinking and generally having a good time just being Fresher’s before the hard work of University life kicks in next week when their real lectures begin.
All acts performed, well Bex stood there, but the other acts were welcomed by the students and everyone appeared to be having a really good time. After Bex made a hasty exit off stage, because her arrival was poorly received by the students, she returned later in the night to spend some more time with her devoted fans who had all been eagerly awaiting her arrival.
Amongst the crowds, a few people did tear themselves away from the party just to tell me exactly what they thought of the night. Criminology student Karen Leak, 18, ‘found the ball a pleasant night out with her mates and a great chance to meet new people as well as cheap booze’ and she wasn’t the only one who discovered the cheap prices at the bar as it was jammed packed all night and when they weren’t at the bar the students were dancing the night away inside the Big Top until the Ball came to an end in the early hours of the next morning. It was definitely a night to remember.
Back Again
I haven't posted in yonks but i'm back now. I'm out of sixthform and currently at uni studying Journalism and English. The course is very intresting especially as i have to put together and article each week which i will post on here aswell.
I'm living in the halls of residence and it's like one giant sleep over all the time. Im in a flat with 5 other girls and we're constantly going out or doing something out of teh ordinary. Made a few other friends to and a couple of guys.
Night's out have been just as exhausting as lectures. Each time i've drank triple the limit and stayed till the early hours of the morning. I especially love the fancy dress nights. So far we've had a school night, 999 night (i was a policewoman) and a neon night and next week it's halloween!!! I'm going as the devil of course and my outfit looks wicked. Literally.
Well hope you enjoy my next couple of stories.
I'm living in the halls of residence and it's like one giant sleep over all the time. Im in a flat with 5 other girls and we're constantly going out or doing something out of teh ordinary. Made a few other friends to and a couple of guys.
Night's out have been just as exhausting as lectures. Each time i've drank triple the limit and stayed till the early hours of the morning. I especially love the fancy dress nights. So far we've had a school night, 999 night (i was a policewoman) and a neon night and next week it's halloween!!! I'm going as the devil of course and my outfit looks wicked. Literally.
Well hope you enjoy my next couple of stories.
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