I believe the column by Kathryn Garvale (“Pop culture trivializes dangers of eating disorder,” SN 3/12) touches on an extremely important topic that is relevant to many men and women - especially women.

Magazines are addicting, and the messages conveyed within their falsified pages have turned women against themselves. Anorexia has definitely become an adjective. I find myself using it in that way more and more. I think the magazine industry praises thinness to the point that we have no choice but to think this is the way we should all look.

It is very important to react to this and begin to make strides at changing the women’s magazine industry, so that some day our daughters will not look through the pages of Teen Magazine to find gaunt girls and women telling them they, too, must give up their curves and starve - I mean strive - to be like them.

I have been waiting for the right time to publish my own article on this issue, because I am studying advertising and psychology, with the hopes of one day helping to turn the women’s magazine industry around.

I know what magazines do to women. I know what they have done to myself and some of my closest friends. More information and articles with this kind of message should be published. The State News would be a great forum to begin taking action.

Erica Lelli
advertising senior