To think that all teenagers should read this....

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www.facebook.com/mbteenager/posts/196847327114864

and that the facebook page she's talking about should be shut down??

What a great stand this girl is taking. It's heartening to see so many people agreeing with her but appalling to see some of the vicious comments some of the 'men' are making.

sorry forgot to link it.

www.facebook.com/mbteenager/posts/196847327114864

Well not every teenager is covered in fake tan..... My teen would not get involved with something like that. Why should every teenager read it? Most know what's what

Well said that girl.

The comments are making my piss boil .

I have 2 teen boys. The girls in their friendship groups are not all covered in fake tan, wear heals of make up and have stick in hair extensions. Infact DS1 would go as far to avoid girls who look like that. dS2 is still at school, so the girls don't really dress like that anyway.

Therefore, YABU to think all teens should read that and impl that they are sheep and follow the pack and can't make up their own minds!

I'm not sure all teenagers do know what's what. So many girls have low self esteem because they don't fit 'the media's' view of what's 'beautiful' - size 0, tanned etc. I have 4 daughters and there is huge pressure on girls to conform to the images in magazines, TV etc. Hence girls as young as 10 having spray tans, extensions etc.

Teenagers just imitate what they think is 'cool.' If this is what teenagers think is attractive, than it says more about what we as adults are putting out there, than what the teenagers are doing or thinking.

I don't find there is huge pressure to conform at all. I have 3 teens and they are not spray tanned, stick thin or even bothered. We had a bit of angst over spots, but then, we had that in the 80's didn't we, and probably the generation before that too. And it was short lived

There may be media pressure for girls to conform with images in magazines, but who is paying for the ten year olds to have spray tans tans and hair extensions? Certainly I wouldn't have indulged DD's request for these at the age of ten, or even now at the age of 15.

Oh FFS why should it be shut down? If my daughters have low self esteem from looking at pictures then I think a lot of that would be down to me as a parent rather than the media. What do you suggest only allowing women of a certain size and wearing no makeup to be represented online and in the papers?

Whilst I think some of the comments on the page range from crass to disgusting, I think 'Ellie Harrington' needs to practise what she's preaching and stop judging girls for looking the way they choose to look.

So she disapproves of 'having someone else's hair clipped to your scalp', and she disapproves of the 'make up and fake tans'.

So what?

Slagging them off the way she does just makes her come across as a judgmental bully really....where is the live and let live here?

She says, " if none of these people had a heap of makeup on, they would not be 'the most beautiful teenager', they would just look like everyone else"

Well I disagree because I think some of those girls are very naturally beautiful and if they chose to remove their make up and hair extensions, they would still be beautiful...not 'just like everyone else at all.

Hence girls as young as 10 having spray tans, extensions etc

How many? None that I've seen.

Totally agree!

Again I have DDs and they don't feel a pressure to conform to the spray tanned stick thin blonde stereotype, which is great.

BUUUUUTTT they are girls raised in a household where these things are not particularly rated- they have lots of other things to put their focus on and raise their self esteem- working hard, achieving in a wide range of areas etc. I think the mumsnet population are this sort of parent.

I work with teens who are more like these girls. They have poor life skills and low self esteem. In their homes parents work, if at all in low paid, not very interesting jobs. some times it seems that " looking good" is actually a "job" for some late teens- dare I say it along with having a " fit" boyfriend, who may or may not treat them well. They often don't seem to care much if he does or doesn't (sad) . No idea how we can change things for these girls. They don't have visions or hopes. Breaks my heart.

Judging someone for wearing make up is by no stretch of the imagination enlightened or good.

I honestly couldn't care less what lasses these days do. I don't do it but I have friends that do. I don't care as I dont judge unlike the lass who wrote the comment.

She isnt doing anything apart from judge others. It is helpful to teenagers at all.

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And what I think this girl has failed to understand, is that none of the girls on that page have posted their own photos.

If you read the 'about' part of the page, the creator asks people to post their favourite photos....so they'll be on the internet already in the public domain.

The girls haven't asked to be judged by the page viewers...and I'd be very suprised if half of them know they're actually on that page at all.

So this girl is just as bad (imo) as anyone else who comments about the girl's appearance.