"Strong is the Better Sexy!" Athletes Are Better Role Models Than Sexualized Cover Models For Young Women
Image 1: Photos of like this, showing athletic women, during competition, or when they train, unfortunately, never make it to the magazine covers, with their heavily photoshop-ed images of male and female "celebrities". Those of you who have not skipped my lengthy introduction to Adelfo's latest blogpost will probably have read between the lines that I personally believe that the influence of attitudinal values and believes about themselves and others on failure and success of what people usually refer to as their "transformation" is largely underrated. On the one hand of the extreme, you have those, who run around telling everyone how "happy" they are with the (mostly pretty chubby) "way they are" only to boil out their eyes, when they get home from work and sit lonely in front of their television. Then, you got those people who acknowledge that they are not really satisfied with the way they look, but that the latter "must...