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Every week our body positivity discussion groups gets together to plan our on-campus activism. We also advertise for our weekly discussion group by cutting out ads and commenting on them – it’s both cathartic and illuminating.
Although the discussion group is for everyon, we generally have significantly more women come. So we have been trying to make an effort to have ads targeting male bodies. Although it has required us to look through a Maxim and a lot of groaning about the depiction of women in it, we now have some ads to put up in men’s bathrooms and make sure that people know all bodies are welcome!
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I'm glad you're doing this! And those flyers are wonderful!!
# Posted By Mahayana
| 2/18/10 01:39 AM
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Great work appropriating and transforming these ads. And you're right -- some of the original ones are downright bad. "Fighting for a killer physique?" Give me a break.
# Posted By AFY_Nikki
| 2/18/10 09:52 AM
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These are AWESOME! I love what you and your group have done to these ads- your commentary is really witty. I'm inspired =)
# Posted By allyouneedislove
| 2/18/10 07:04 PM
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yeah these are great! it would be awesome if you could let us know what kinds of discussions the masculine identifying people brought up at your meetings that would be awesome to hear because i hear that kind of stuff so rarely
# Posted By 
vanessaaishacoleman
| 2/19/10 07:17 PM
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vanessaaishacoleman
| 2/19/10 07:17 PM
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thats pretty cool we could so use this at our school :]
# Posted By bluemonkey1
| 2/20/10 11:13 PM
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It's really easy and It's really fun! I highly recommend getting a group of people together to dissect magazines and make these ads. It always leads to good conversations, and we've gotten nothing but positive responses when we hung them up around campus.
# Posted By robocoko
| 2/21/10 03:19 AM
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