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Men are beginning to victimize themselves with body-image anxiety. We don't like how we look, and we get embarrassed and anxious when attention is called to our physiques.                 

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS/DVDS
(see also this page of  streaming video clips on this topic)

Cover Girl Culture: Awakening the Media Generation

Picture Perfect (Fanlight Productions)  study guide

FUEL: Skin Deep: teaches media literacy skills to help your students decode media messages about food, eating, weight, and body image.

The Truth About Body Image (AIMS Multimedia) (Teacher guide)

Killing Us Softly 4  (Media Education Foundation)

Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women
(Media Education Foundation) (Google video link)

Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness
(Media Education Foundation)

Tough Guise (featuring Jackson Katz)
(Media Education Foundation)

Body Image: Let's Get Real
(Grades 3-8; TV Ontario; 800/331-9566)