Teenage Girls are Writing Red
Finally teenage girls have been given a chance to voice their trials and tribulations thanks to a new book titled Red. This book is a group of essays and anthologies compiled by Seventeen magazine and New York editor Amy Goldwasser. There are 58 authors in total, all teenage girls, and the book focuses on the issues of modern teenage girls in a raw, uncensored form. Issues covered are what you would expect from the mouths of teenage girls – perfectionism, family issues, and unseemly obsessions with male celebrities. Amy talks about how the biggest issues that kept cropping up were body image issues, and an unhealthy rise in the practice of cutting among teenage girls. Think Mean Girls meets Girls Gone Wild. And for those girls whose stories didn’t quite make it into the epic anthology, you can probably find them in a new Facebook Group called “30 Reasons Girls Should Call it a Night”, and though the group lists a set of reasons why last call is never a bad thing, the pictures speak for themselves and it has created quite the Facebook scandal. Here you will see a myriad of over 5,000 pictures of girls at their drunken lowest. Yup, in shopping carts, passed out in planters, and of course there is a *fine* collection of sordid bathroom episodes. Hm, I wonder if Brit knows about this group? I think she’d fit in. The shocking thing about the group is that these girls are posting pictures of THEMSELVES. Yeah, because letting the whole world know how horrid one looks at their drunken lowest is just so flattering. Perhaps the book Red will shed some light on why this attention seeking behavior is so prevalent.
