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Media Effects On Body Image Presentaton
1. The Media as a Role Model Damaging Effects on Youth’s Body Satisfaction and Perceived Body Image Tiffany Wexler COMM 457 April 15, 2010
2. Gender Assumptions Many times, males are dismissed as part of the vulnerable population to eating disorders and the ‘thin ethic.’ Assumed that conversations and conflicts about pressure towards thinness only occur between “images and females, or females and other females (peer pressure to conform; criticisms from the mother); the vulnerability of men and boys to popular imagery, the contribution of their desires and anxieties, the pressures thus brought to bear on girls and women, remained…a hidden and somehow unspeakable secret in the prevailing narratives” (Bordo, 1993).
7. The media provide raw materials for boys’ fantasies of power, violence, and muscularity Comics, films, and television portray a landscape of war, death, and destruction, peopled with impossibly muscular superheroes In this world, ‘real men’ are fearless and invulnerable, unburdened by emotion or sensitivity to others. Media- Fueled Paraphernalia of Masculinity Buckingham, 1992
16. “What’s done to children, They will do to society.” -Karl Menniger
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