View a TV segment of Wendy Shalit on Canada AM. Here's an excerpt (read the full story):
"We're at this really interesting moment where the people rebelling against these sexualized messages are actually the young women themselves and I think that's very positive and in doing my research I was really amazed to see that studies have shown that young women are now preferring more wholesome role models," Shalit said.
Shalit said that this movement is occurring at a time when sexualized messages are being increasingly directed towards younger girls through imagery in items such as pre-teen magazines.
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"Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!"
--Ellen Sussman, 52, editor of Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, on her two daughters, ages 19 and 21 (MORE magazine July/August 2007)