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Every Girl's Dream. Short skirts, tiny waists, large breasts, and flawless airbrushed smiling faces. These are the images of womanhood that I have seen while I have been in America. I see them on the television, on the sides of buses, on billboards, magazines, and everywhere else. And I wonder why so many female adolescents have self-image and weight issues? In a time when individuality, self-esteem and positive body image are all on the decline, plastic idols are the last things young girls need to compare themselves to. Add these limited images of feminine beauty, a little baby pink, blond hair, blue eyes, and what do we have? I would have to guess the beloved plastic childhood toy that smiles out to us in the Pepto-Bismol colored isles at Wal-Mart - Barbie. The proportionately incorrect doll has been blamed for driving some to great lengths to imitate her features, while...

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