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Mexican Is Beautiful. But Missing.
(submitted anonymously by an OOC reader) We first posted this piece sent in by a reader a few months ago. We're putting it up again because we think it raises an important question about what we...
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Stressed Like Never Before
(submitted by OOC via teenvogue.com) Stress sucks and it seems to be on the rise. And according to a recent article in teenvogue and a new study: The American Freshman: National Norms Fall...
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The Penis Problem
(story submitted by D H Leitner, a Chestist) D H wrote to us after seeing our announcement about The Self Esteem Act (we think). Here’s what she had to get off her chest: After reading the umpteenth...
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See More Fat People
(Story submitted anonymously, by a Chestist) One reader writes us with this: I'd love to see more fat people on TV. In most shows I've watched it seems like very few characters are fat. Sometimes a TV...
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Fashion’s Responsibility
(story by OOC via HuffingtonPost) This first appeared in HuffPo back in September. While it may have been more of a news story then, it's (sadly) no less topical or relevant now. The CFDA is trying...
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Body Image is Hating on Men’s Happy
(submitted by OOC via Blisstree.com) Here's a bit of gender equality that can't make anyone happy – even if misery does love company. Men are increasingly and rapidly becoming ever more dissatisfied...
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Flying the Helicoptery Skies
(story by Mir, from Woulda Coulda Shoulda) We all know that post-9/11 air travel is a completely different reality than what most of us grew up experiencing. (I say "most of us" because I recently met...
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Body Image Buzzkill
(story submitted anonymously, by an 18 yo Chestist) ~ On Repeat Yesterday we spoke at the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham about the Medi and Public Health Act. Along with other panelists, the...
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Eating Disorder
(story submitted Anonymously, by a Chestist, on rewind) I was never the fat girl, but I was never the thin girl either. I wasn't the ugliest girl, but I was far from attracting the attention and...
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