Demeaning Article on a 15 Year Old Girls Body.

This Petition was brought into the public eye to pressure NY Observer to withdraw the Article which was in their publication. The Article speaks of the Actress Hilary Duff in a demeaning way; it is also a very inappropriate way for an adult to be speaking of a 15 year old young lady. These are 30 year old plus people talking about a 15 year old girl as if she was some kind of "object". I find it very disturbing, and also very disrespectful to speak of any young lady or woman in this manner. The comments should be withdrawn with a formal apology to the public. This article was completely out of context from the movie, it was very sick of an adult to be speaking of a girl this way, and it is also disrespectful to females everywhere treating them as an object. The Article is shown below.

Lizzie's McGuires

The Lizzie McGuire Movie, opening May 2, is the big-screen version of the madly popular Disney Channel television series about a perky, enthusiastic 'tweenager, who is played by the perky, enthusiastic 15-year-old actress, Hilary Duff. Lately, Ms. Duff's image has been all around town, in subway and bus-stop Lizzie McGuire Movie posters, which depict her in an exuberant, tippy-toe pose, and she's causing something of a stir, because people who don't know the first thing about Lizzie McGuire now can't stop talking about her perky, enthusiastic boobs.

"When I first saw that poster on a phone kiosk, I stopped dead in the middle of Sixth Avenue and almost got hit by a cab," said Allen Tsai, 30, a Web designer. "I can see the police report: Cause of death: Lizzie McGuire's chest.'"

"I thought they looked like tennis balls," said Melissa Walker, 25, who works in magazines. "She's sticking them out, sucking in her chest, almost like that C-curve' thing you do in Pilates when they ask you to roll like a ball,'"


"They're three inches below her chin," said Cara O'Flynn, 29, a marketing research analyst.


The last teenager to kick up such a boobtroversy, of course, was Britney Spears, who endured rumors for years that she'd had plastic implants inserted. Ms. O'Flynn called Ms. Duff's shelving "suspiciously high," considering that the small-screen Lizzie's Lizzies are decidedly smaller.


Then again, at that age, things change fast. Our Hollywood spiesand we do have themreported that Ms. Duff is a maturing gal, and drove Lizzie McGuire wardrobe people crazy by growing into a new clothing size every six weeks.


And Ms. Duff surely could have improved her rack without surgery. "You could also do incredible things with bra accessories, whether pushing things together and up, or padding, or making the shirt tighter," said Howard Sobel, a Manhattan cosmetic and dermatologic surgeon who took an obliging look at the poster.


Of course, those breasts might not be Lizzie's at all. Boosting boobslike lengthening legs and airbrushing cheekshas been a longtime practice in movie-postering. Who could forget the ample-bosomed Julia Roberts in the Pretty Woman poster (evidently that was Julia only from the neck up), or Jennifer Love Hewitt's set in the I Know What You Did Last Summer poster (so giganto the film's title was recoined by fans as "I Know What Your Boobs Did Last Summer"), to the suddenly chesty Gwyneth Paltrow in the poster for Shallow Hal?


Disney had no comment. Neither did Ms. Duff's representative.


But Meema Spadola, author of Breasts: Our Most Public Private Parts and co-producer and director of the Cinemax documentary Breasts, thought that Lizzie's front fender may have been enhanced with the adult moviegoing audience in mind.


"Her breasts shout out, I'm a swinging, sexy twenty something!'" said Ms. Spadola. "I'm not sure if they're trying to grab older viewers or give a heightened version of Lizzie to which teen girls can aspire."

Playwright Elisa DeCarlo, 42, had her hunch. "My guess is that they are going for that all-important Humbert Humbert demographic," she said. "The audience will be 90 percent preteens and their parents, 10 percent shifty-looking older men in raincoats."

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