Comments on: Beauty Redefined: Mormon Researchers Promote Media Literacy

By: Shannon’s Adventures in Toddler Media Literacy – The Word-hoard

Shannon’s Adventures in Toddler Media Literacy – The Word-hoard — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:30:14 +0000

[…] this indicates is a lack of media literacy. Two of my favorite media literacy educators make the alarming claim that “while the U.S. is the No. 1 producer and exporter of media, it is also the only […]

By: Protecting Children Against Pornography: A Resource List | Mormon Women - About LDS Life and Belief

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:12:16 +0000

[…] mode at the time, but now I have learned that teaching children media literacy (thanks, Beauty Redefined!) needs to happen a lot younger and very deliberately. I have learned more about the brain science […]

By: What are we doing to Ourselves? | Reasons to Rejoice

What are we doing to Ourselves? | Reasons to Rejoice — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:48:03 +0000

[…] by developing a relationship with God, standing up for virtue, making time to listen and be still, deconstructing the messages of the media, and changing our negative thought […]

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:40:11 +0000

Thanks for sharing this awesome message! It’s so unfortunate how the media distorts beauty in this day and age, but this post does a great job combating those unhealthy messages.

By: Spiritual Roots of True Beauty: Knowing Who We Are | Mormon Women: Who We Are - About LDS Life and Belief

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:47:14 +0000

[…] grateful for the women who have given us much to think about with regard to this topic (see Beauty Redefined and Recapturing Beauty/Day of Beauty). For all that our culture wants to make beauty about looks or […]

By: Lindsay Kite

Lindsay Kite — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:43:42 +0000

Thank you so much for featuring me, Lexie and our Beauty Redefined work! We are so excited to share our efforts and the spiritual motivation behind it all, since we rarely get to discuss that aspect. Thank you for the kind words and support in encouraging girls and women to see beyond harmful, narrow ideas about what it means to be a beautiful and successful woman!

By: mormonwomen

mormonwomen — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:31:53 +0000

I just wanted to link directly to Alycia’s senior paper, which has a lot of interesting (and sobering) statistics as well. Thanks for sharing, Alycia!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HpGwBi1bCs9js6v0YcfvQa2R28t0woAwMPcZVaDgK_M/edit?hl=en&authkey=CKOv_PsB&pli=1#

By: Alycia (Crowley Party)

Alycia (Crowley Party) — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:37:12 +0000

Love that we are trying to make people more aware!

http://crowleyparty.blogspot.com/2011/01/beauty.html

By: "Recapturing Beauty" (Stephanie Nielson Video) + "Day of Beauty" | Mormon Women: Who We Are - About LDS Life and Belief

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:42:04 +0000

[…] recapturing beauty is on many people’s minds. For example, we hope you had a chance to read yesterday’s post about the Beauty Redefined project. We’ve mentioned here the “Recapturing Beauty” campaign that the Women’s […]

By: Janelle

Janelle — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:38:07 +0000

I think the quote that sticks out to me most is,

“research shows female preoccupation with physical appearance leaves fewer mental resources available for other things, including mathematics, logical reasoning, spatial skills and athletic performance. Yikes.”

Yikes indeed.