'Women's Health' Rights Wrongs

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NEW YORK Women’s Health positions itself as a friendly presence on a newsstand packed with “mean magazines” in a 60-second cinema spot tagged, “It’s good to be you,” from Margeotes Fertitta Powell.

In the spot, a haughty cover model tells a woman, “With those thighs, you should be walking to work.” Other magazines chip away at her with lines like, “He’s never going to call . . . You’re needy,” and discourage her from enjoying her side of French fries with a judgmental, “It’s your body.”

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