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The Australian newspaper decries objectification:

A recent report found one in five 12-year-old girls regularly used fasting and vomiting to lose weight. One in four Australian girls want to get plastic surgery. Women's Forum Australia recently produced a YouTube film clip about our new magazine-style research paper, Faking It. In it, a 10-year-old girl says women's magazines make her want to be thin. She plans to go on a raw fish diet. Too many girls are trying to imitate half-starved celebrities and airbrushed models in a quest to be hot and sexy. We have allowed the objectification and sexualisation of girls in a culture that is becoming increasingly pornographic. The embedding of sexualised images of women in society has become so mainstream, it is hardly noticed.