The image used on the front cover I feel is very reveling. Also the superstar Christina Aguilera is posing to revel even more of her body. You know the children these days, what ever they see, they want to copy. So if they see half naked models, they want to copy them thinking they will be the next supermodels. They will try to achieve this by reveling their body to the public. I do not want this to happen to my daughter.
Also, your magazine is encouraging ‘teens’ to tell their mate ten lies. I consider that as backstabbing their mates. If my daughter gets into telling lies often, she will think it is ok to tell lies when it is not. This could cause her into lots of trouble. Say when she becomes older, she is in a serious situation where she goes to court and lies about something, if she gets caught she will face a fine or even imprisonment. Now you tell me, how would you feel if you child went in to prison?
You are trying to persuade teenagers to buy your magazine by saying your magazine is ‘Britain’s No1 Teen Mag’. I do not agree that you magazine is ‘Britain’s No1 Teen Mag’ because I do not even consider that this magazine is for teenager’s, with all the explicit image and text. I think a number one magazine should contain fact on ‘how to revise before test’ and ‘how to keep concentrated in class’. Not rubbish on ‘how to look good’ and ‘which lip gloss would go good with that colour dress’.
Your magazine is assuming that all teenagers are ‘fashion freaks’. I can tell this because your text is mostly saying ‘fashion’ or ‘your looks’. You would only have rote this because you imagine all teenagers are into fashion. But research shows that only 10% out of teenagers in the UK worry about looking good. So what you are really doing is not fulfilling their desires, what you are doing is changing their desires to not so important fashion.
In your front cover it quotes ‘beat the boyfriend burglars, keep that cutie!’ I am happily married and my husband and me have not had one argument since we had been married. So what are you trying to say? Our generation women cannot keep their boyfriends and husbands? I think you are stereotyping women and I believe that it is not reasonable.
In general, I believe that your magazine is filthy and horrible and I feel some changes are needed to be made. Firstly I think that the image on the front cover should be changed to a more suitable image for ‘teens’. Secondly I think you should change the text used in the magazine because is contains worthless information about ‘how to look good’. Think you should replace that kind of information with things explaining ‘how to study well’ and ‘revision tips’. Finally I think you should stop stereotyping women and ‘teens’. I believe after these changes the magazine will be much better and I would not mind if my daughter was reading the magazine.
Your Sincerely
Ms Makani.
