Good news, girls!!
For the past several months, I have been asking you to write me letters explaining how Cosmo has negatively affected you or your friends. I have recieved over 200 heartfelt stories from girls who regret mistakes they made because of what they read in Cosmo.
I started the Anti-Cosmo petition on Change.org and set it up so that every time someone signs the petition, all the major decision-makers get notified via email. This includes the CEO of Walmart, the CEOs of many major grocery stores, the chairman of the FTC Jon Leibowitz, and the senator of California. Please click that link and sign the petition! It really counts!
The first letter I received from the FTC was a polite blow off from the consumer response center. It simply said, “the Commission does not resolve individual complaints. The Commission can, however, act when it sees a pattern of possible violations developing.”
When I got that letter back, I became more passionate than ever. It is NOT an individual complaint! This harmful magazine is hurting thousands of young girls across the country each month!
The letter I just received is from the secretary of the commission himself, Donald S. Clark. It states that they are acknowledging the petition, and that they forwarded a copy of the letter to the editor-in-chief of Cosmo, Kate White. They copied her on the letter and stated they need a reply back from her, and sent it to me as well.
The best way you can help right now is to sign that petition. Tell EVERYONE YOU KNOW to sign it: Spread it on your Facebook page, tell your school principal and your teachers about it, anyone! Let’s make this viral! Here it is again: SIGN HERE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND TO PUT COSMO IN A BAG!!
Comment here if you got anyone to sign it– together we WILL change the world!
POWER OF GOD BABY!! WASSUP!!! LET’S CHANGE THE WORLD LADIES!!
I LOVE it!!! that just made me laugh 🙂 Ask your friends to sign it, and comment here if you got additional signatures!
Haha! That was an awesome comment. This just really motivated me. When we get back from Thanksgiving break- I am going to tell people at school and get all my girls to sign it. I also need to make sure they know about this site… Truly, I love this site with all my heart, and Nicole, you have really inspired me to be a better light for Christ. (: <3 I love you. Thank you. 😀
LOL! That’s awesome!!
That’s so awesome! God is moving! I’ve already signed the petition, so should I sign again or not?
yes sign again!! go tell your mom and siblings to sign too please! let me know if you did it!
You can sign it twice????
it wouldn’t let me sign again when I tried….
maybe input another email address?
Do you hear yourselves? What is… why is… Look Nicole……. Just because you want something done… that does NOT give you the excuse to cheat it! You sign the petition ONCE like good honest Christians should! You don’t sign it 6 times for one person. It’s not right. What kind of Christians are you?
oh wow- I’m sorry Jane, I didn’t mean to upset you! I was unaware you couldn’t sign it twice. Even Christians make mistakes….
Jane ,, I see where yuur coming from but I’d rather sign a petition 100 times and see something effective and IMPORTANT happen than worry bout whether signing multiple times is cheating .. It’s about how we can serve God and keep impure encouragement and thoughts out of young girls minds ,, not whether multiply signing a petition is immoral or not ..
I agree 100%
Nicole, I just found out about your petition and site via Fox News and was so excited. I have long been disgusted by Cosmo and wondered how it could be kept on open shelves. I came to your site to read more and sign your petition and I found this post. Please rethink these comments. God doesn’t need us to cheat for Him. He’s big enough without us. This petition is a good thing, but this attitude makes me not want to participate. This isn’t a condemnation, just an observation.
THAT’S AWESOME! Way to go, Nicole. this mission needs our prayers now more than ever
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We can do all things through Christ who gives us strength!
Philippians 4:13
We are just another step closer!! 😀
This is GREAT news! THANK YOU JESUS!!!!
I got my Mom, my cousin, and a couple of my friends to sign it. INCLUDING ME! God is good! <3
That is AMAZING!!! thank you so much Shea!!
PRAISE The Almighty, Awesome, Earth Changing LORD! I LOVE HIM!! I can’t wait to see how we change this world in His name!
This is AMAZINGLY AWESOMELY GOD-BLESSINGLY GREAT!!!! How many times can I sign? If there’s no limit, I am going to sit here for the next week signing it!!!
Sign SIgn Sign!!! I think you can sign multiple times- I’m not sure- but please try!
Porn disgraces women’s bodies. God made our bodies to carry babies. Women are viewed as “sex” toys and that makes me mad. God didn’t take a rib out of Adam so we can be immoderate sex toys. We are beautiful and Cosmo is ruining that for us! Good eye Nicole and lets make a difference. That is messed up and I’m very disgusted at these magazines. Sex is meant for marrige and reproduction. You are amazing Nicole. God is on our side!
Amen!
like the way you put it 🙂
The Gang of Christ is making a difference! You’d better recongnize!
YES WE ARE!! God is in control!! Paris did you share the change.org with your friends and parents? Please go ask your mom and dad to sign it!
YES! So incredibly happy!
I signed the petition too 🙂
I would love to sign this petition. The cosmopolitan magazine is so disturbing! But to sign it, the website is asking for my address. Help?
you don’t need to input your real address! I didn’t- it’s not necessary! protect your privacy!
AWESOME!! My friend Chloe send me the petition, and I am SO happy I signed! This is epic, change is finally coming! Thanks for all your hard work, Nicole!
the petition requires to much info… can’t sign…
you don’t have to input your real address, or phone number!
That’s awesome! Praying for everything to work out!
Boo-Yah!!! It’s working!!!!!!! We’re making a difference! 😀
Heck YES we ARE!!!! Tell all your friends girls to sign this!!! share the article!!
Ahhhh! This assures me that i signed it for a reason. Wahahha I am so bubbly right now! 😀
yes Maddie!! your signature is MAKING A DIFFERENCE!! tell all your friends, your mom, dad, brothers, sisters, counselor, teachers, MORE!!
Thats AMAZIN! 🙂 am I eligible ta sign?
of course you can!!
yay!!!! i posted a link to it on my facebook and got a ton of my friends to sign it! 🙂
thank you Anna!!!!
YAY
So happy that this is starting to work! I wonder how Kate will reply!
WOOOOH!!!!! I’m soo excited! It’s working!! I’m a 13 year old and i KNOW that this is important,girls will be safer and not influenced by that horrid magazine! POWER OF GOD, BABY!!!
YES Power of God!! keep praying Sarah, and share the Anti Cosmo link to change.org on your facebook wall, and ask your mom and dad and friends to sign it!!
Amen! God really can do all things! Let’s pray that this will be the start of something new, wonderful, and bless others through out works! God Bless!
This is so awesome! 🙂
just signed it and asking me friends to sign it 🙂
thank you so much Anita!!
I just signed! I also gave a very emotional comment in the little box afterward describing how I feel about this (: God is so good!
thank you SO much Abby!! that means A LOT to me!!
Hey I’m not sure you’ll get this message since I’m not a member, but I hope you see it anyway Nicole. I just wanted to say that I applaud all the success you’ve had through PI and being able to make change in this world through persistence and writing very well. At the same time, there’s something that makes me a bit uncomfortable, mainly that from the facebook comments to Kate White and a few articles that don’t really give the impression of love in the way we correct others. Just wanted to be a reminder to be careful in the way we correct others; not comparing to us, but all of us ultimately to God and with compassion 🙂
thank you Joyce so much for the kind words, I really appreciate hearing that! But really, it means a lot to me. I understand what you’re saying about the comments on kate White’s wall, but I am trying to “shake her up” as much as possible because she has ignored every single one of my emails, letters, comments, and all of the other girls’ as well. I try and remember to be graceful, and to just focus on the fact that the magazine itself is bad, and not that SHE is the bad person. I might of accidentally made a mistake and said she was as well, but she deleted all of the comments anyway so they are not there anymore. 🙂 Yes I will really remember to go about this with grace and love, like I know God wants me too!
hey….um… I want to sign the petion but you have too add your zip code,state,city,address,& my mom is corcerned about that and dosen’t want me to. is there another way?
You don’t need to put your real address! Just do something generic like 1456 summer lane la ca 90266 I don’t think it’s right that they ask for your address!
you are doing a geart job you work so hard i wish i had time to do more in the new year i hope to
Hi! So… I was doing some research on other countries that have banned cosmo… thinking it might help our fight… and look at what I found!
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw04/040902a1.htm
This is exactly what we are trying to do! Yay singapore! Getting it in a bag!
oh awesome! thanks so much for sharing this article with me! and thanks for doing research 🙂 I really, really appreciate it!