Thouts on TEEN Magazine.

Essay by mrjatinchopraJunior High, 8th grade December 2003

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Lately I have been reading the teen magazinesYM and Seventeen

and I've noticed one thing; they really annoy me. I feel like they are

just for preps and the trendoid freaks. Well what about the other groups?

The gangsters, punks, skaters, bikers, or whatever. They should really

give recognition to the other people in our society. Maybe they want just

the good teenagers around. They are not going to get what they want.

Maybe they think if they print stuff up all about preps and trends everyone

will follow. Well they should guess again.

I for one, will not follow any of that shit they say. They give

some of the most whacked advice for things. Take romance, I've tried to

follow the advice, but my outcome has not been successful. I know other

people who have tried, and their outcome has been the same. Take their

quizzes, then tell me that you do all that stuff.

If you know me, then

tell me how often I wear bellbottom pants, or platform shoes, or pink

make-up, or little shirts that fit me. For those of you who don't know me,

I can tell you right now, I wouldn't be caught dead in that stuff.

That takes me to the clothes the models sport. How many girls in

this society are actually that skinny? It's actually kind of sick. I

think they should widen their models to all sizes and shapes. What? Just

because a girl who is not amazingly skinny for a model, the company won't

sell anything? Well I can't exactly describe the clothes they wear, but I

have never run across a person wearing the same thing. But in Seventeen

they have a section called "School Zone" and they go around different

schools and take pictures of...