I just read this article on the BBC and I found their angle interesting:
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The piece is entitled "Boys suffer poor body image, say teachers". The piece then goes on to talk about a survey and the results, which include:
"In a survey of 693 members across the UK, the union found 78% thought girls suffered low self-esteem and 51% thought boys had low confidence in their body image.
In addition, 59% of staff said that worries about body image made female pupils anxious and 30% said it caused anxiety in male pupils.
Some 55% said that girls were "ultra-sensitive" to comments about their appearance and 27% said boys took comments to heart."
My immediate thought was the finding was that CHILDREN are suffering poor body image for various reasons, and that if there was a headline about one sex or the other it would be girls.
Why do you think they would take the line they did? It seems a little strange to me. Certainly there is a problem with boys body image (although not as bad as girls) and the ways that manifests can be different to in girls but if they wanted to write about that why not use some research that focussed on it specifically?
Can anyone help me understand why I feel what they have done is strange, or isn't it?
I also glanced at the top comments and one person had said something about that:
"Why on earth is the headline entitled "Boys suffer poor body image". After reading the article and studying the quoted percentages, it is clearly such a bigger problem for girls which is exactly what I would have expected." which has 6 negative votes.
Anyone have any thoughts?
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FrimFrimMcWeasel · 24/03/2013 16:34
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