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Bless us and preserve us we will not escape from Twiggy this month either.&nbsp; I'm sure she is a lovely person but is no-one at AAY listening anymore? Now we have yet another biography (on the AAY
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TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 21/9/2009 10:59 PM GDT
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Bless us and preserve us we will not escape from Twiggy this month either.  I'm sure she is a lovely person but is no-one at AAY listening anymore?

Now we have yet another biography (on the AAY home page, if you will) about the said Twig's doings now she is celebrating her 60th birthday this month.

Is someone in the editing room on steroids (only joking, of course) but I am beginning to feel that Twiggy has either moved in next door to me or married my brother in law!

 

I am not as green as I am cabbage looking .......

Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 21/9/2009 11:31 PM GDT
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Yup. Utterly predictable.

And another thing (she climbs on hobby horse). How about giving the old breast cancer thing  a rest?

We check our breasts obediently, trot off for our mammograms - are aware of all the issues, medical and political. STILL there's no escape from endless articles about it.

It's in Prima and GH this month.And no doubt it'll come back round every time someone's short of an idea. It's like every copy of Cosmo has 'ten steps to your perfect orgasm' on the cover. Yawn.

Do try and think outside the box, editorial staff!

 
 
 
 


Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 21/9/2009 11:52 PM GDT
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I couldn't agree more.  I am sick to the back teeth of hearing about the perfect Twiggy, who after all, has not done anything more mind blowing than model clothes and encourage us all to look like skinny boys.

As for cancer, I do think Good Housekeeping over does it, so much in fact that instead of feeling uplifted by the magazine I feel depressed.  Speaking as someone who has first hand experience of the disease, I don't need to be reminded of it month after month after month.


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Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 22/9/2009 12:19 PM GDT
First post: 28/7/2009
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Yes, I agree with all of the above, but I would say that I would like to see prostate cancer covered a bit, my father died from that last year and there is not half the coverage of that yet there a quite a number of deaths a year from it and younger men are suffering from it.

I learned so much about that 'walnut' sized gland.  Much to my father's horror!!

so yes, lets hear some more about that please.

 

  

Chippy



 

Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 22/9/2009 6:33 PM GDT
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We've raised this before, about the same round of celebs appearing in all the mags ad nauseam, and I do think it's time the editors took notice.

And the breast cancer thing is all very worthy, but if you keep pushing it, people stop reading anyway, and you are putting off your target audience through sheer boredom with the subject.

I do agree about prostate cancer, Chippy: particularly as it's one of those things that men shy away from, and women can help to encourage them to self-examine if they know what to look for.

But if I see another article in a woman's mag about Dressing for Your Shape, or about Lorraine Kelly - or Twiggy - or Lulu, currently back on the music scene, or any of the other usual suspects, I will just sigh heavily and walk out of the shop mumbling; but I will save my money, won't I? BB

 

Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 23/9/2009 12:27 PM GDT
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@ Bideshi... The issue of Breast Cancer will come around every October when it's, hello, Breast Cancer Awareness month. Yes, you may tire of reading about it but until the disease is finally overcome you'll just have to put up with that, won't you? I've had friends and family fight and overcome breast cancer. I can't quite imagine how hard it was for them to get through it but I know how terrified I was that I might lose them. Stories of how other women coped and survived helped me to have hope and showed me how I could help my family members who had the cancer. If you find that boring or endless, I'm sorry for you. But I found it inspirational. 
Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 23/9/2009 12:48 PM GDT
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It's simply that if every magazine and newspaper covers it endlessly, there comes a point when you just don't bother to read any more. How many articles on breast cancer is it possible to read?

 I hesitate to use the word 'overkill'.

There are other cancers that could actually use a bit more publicity. The breast cancer charities have been spectacularly successful at raising the profile of the disease since the days when my mother had breast cancer, but there is a law of diminishing returns with such things.

That's my only point.

 

 
 
 
 


Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 23/9/2009 2:30 PM GDT
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When breast cancers enters your life in one form or another, you'd be surprised how many articles you read about it and how many more you seek out to help make sense of it. 

 

 

 

 

Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 23/9/2009 4:46 PM GDT
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Yes, I know. My mother had it.

I read (and it was very moving) the blog now published as a book written by Dina Rabinovich. And when Jenni Murray had it, she had some very interesting things to say. I've read reams about it, including all the stuff by doctors who think we're too interventionist.

If I want to know (and I do) then nothing will stop me finding out. But magazines are for leisure and when they do these articles, nothing new is ever said because they cannot (and should not)court controversy.

I'd be much more engaged if they dealt with some health issues that people tend NOT to know about. How many people, for instance, know about lupus? It kills just as many women as breast cancer. And there was an excellent and informative article in (I think) GH about basal cell skin cancer. Now that was useful.

 
 
 
 


Re: TWIGGY AT 60
posted at 24/9/2009 8:19 AM GDT
First post: 16/5/2008
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The other thing is that these articles focus almost exclusively on the sufferers, and the treatment, and the follow-ups, and very little is said about prevention. Obviously heredity has a part to play, but there are some guidelines whcih should be shouted out about what not to do - drink, smoke, etc - if you want to avoid it. If you are going to do a fresh article, let's have a serious look at what the known causes are, what the current research is doing, and how to do your damnedest to avoid this disease.

BB (Mother and 2 friends victims)

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