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Mags show ‘beauty’ standard, receive flack

By Troy Doetch | July 9, 2012

Under the leadership of 14-year-old women’s rights activist Julia Bluhm, about 85,000 people signed “Give Girls Images of Real Girls,” a petition on Change.org begging Seventeen magazine to print one — just one — digitally unaltered photo spread...