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Old 11-20-2013, 11:23 AM   #11
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by DanaC
Also: how did they manage to determine that the media has no impact? All they managed to show was that women didn;t feel worse about themselves after viewing a particular show/magazine/film. They couldn;t possibly have factored in the impact of being surrounded by those images of femininity 24 hours a day, and the second-hand effects from a very young age of all the adult in their life having been surrounded by such imagery 24 hours a day and how that shapes overall views of girlhood and womanhood.
That wasn't all they showed. They also showed that women did feel worse about themselves when placed next to an in-the-flesh attractive woman, and even worse beyond that if there was also a man in the room.

Media is a reflection of society, not the other way around. Real-life experiences will trump media exposure every time. If you believe that media makes women feel bad about themselves, you must also believe that to some degree videogames make young males more violent. (And maybe you do. But I'm guessing you don't.)
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