Tel T 192 1st Edition Lecture 9 Outline of Last Lecture I The Pro Ana Community Outline of Current Lecture II Male Body Image III The Ideal Man Mass Media IV Harrison Bond 2007 Current Lecture Male Body Ideal o Young men are increasingly pressured to be muscular o Ideal body type is v shaped broad shoulders and large biceps narrow waist o How to achieve this ideal Anabolic steroid use is comparable to rates of anorexia and bulimia among adolescents Consequences of steroid use o Increased chance of prostate cancer o High blood pressure o Lack of fertility o Growth of breast tissue This body is easier to achieve than an ideal woman s but it is still hard to get The Ideal Man Mass Media o Print media Men s BMI s have increased overtime o Electronic media Men are underweight but less so than women Fatness is punished o Children s toys Pope s Work This ideal has worked its way into kids toys Dimensions have become impossibly large Bodies don t exist and are unachievable o New Media Specifically video games Characters are now large strong men that have unattainable bodies Harrison and Bond 2007 o Looked at video game magazines These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Good to study because they had images from all sorts of games with this body image o Genre is popular with young boys o This was a survey and a longitudinal analysis o Questions Variables How often they read gaming magazines Questions pertaining to body dysmorphic practices How much time did they spend with any magazine Asked child to report their race Most characters are white o Social Comparison Theory o Social Learning Theory
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