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  • 8 years ago
    Comment Xeriel

    Why do you think that?

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  • 8 years ago
    Comment Xeriel

    I think you could argue that being more educated and thinking critically is very much the same as being "more intelligent".

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  • 8 years ago
    Comment Xeriel

    Virtually all of those post-shop would likely be classified as an overweight BMI. When two thirds of the population is overweight or obese and far less than 5% suffer from an eating disorder, I really find it difficult to jump on the "skinny advertising bad" bandwagon.

    Has anyone ever actually demonstrated that media portrayal has an impact on eating disorders? I've seen some studies that show their rates don't change much over time, while obesity continues to skyrocket.

    This kind of thin shaming seems like you're trying to snuff out a problem by throwing gas on an already bigger fire. We need to emphasize healthy body images. In the case of fictional, digitally created, idealized characters, I think erring on the skinny side does far less harm.

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  • 8 years ago
    Comment Xeriel

    A tidbit from the study I found interesting: Both Hemingways and Nutty Professors are pretty evenly split by gender (50 and 48% male, respectively). The majority of both Mary Poppins (Poppinses?) and Mr Hydes appear to be female (63 and 67%).

    There were more women than men in the study, but those numbers still didn't seem to make sense to me, so I went ahead and worked out how each gender fell into each category:

    (Hemingways/Mary Poppinses/Mister Hydes/Nutty Professors) Females: (36%/16%/26%/22%) Males: (47%/14%/17%/22%)