Lipstick Blog and the Media Distortion of Youth Culture

[leapin_jot]

Here's a cool post about cleaning and writing, two of my personal preoccupations. By the way, in case I haven't mentioned it before this blog, The Lipstick Chronicles, is one of my newer favorite blogs. A group of four female authors takes turns posting. They write about writing, families, and all the other kinds of things that people are likely

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[divinemum]

What an interesting idea! I had never thought about the "fun" or "problem" categories, but it really is true. I remember thinking way back when I was a teenager (:P) that I never heard any stories about kids like me-- Kids who weren't perfect, but were doing their best to grow up to be mature, responsible adults. The stories were either about kids who caused problems in one way or another, or the star athlete.

I love to organize! I have a table, which we refer to as "my table", that I use to scrapbook, write out the bills, hold stuff temporarily, whatever. I cleaned it off the other day, and oragnized the area around it, and it FELT SO GOOD!! LOL

[leapin_jot]

And that brings out another point of the article...when teenagers are pulled into panels and whatnot, the teens in question are usually overachiever types who are already in leadership positions.

The article I'm reading now is cool too. It's about "zines," usually homoemade type publications produced usually be people between 15-35 yrs. old with an average printing of 50 copies. It's made me feel positively journalistic.