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1 In your opinion, is it appropriate for any industry to send the message that beauty and thinness are requisites for success?

2 What role do the cosmetic and diet industries play in feeding a person’s longing to attain a self that mirrors the ideal presented in media?

3 In what ways, if any, are the messages the media send women any different from the messages they send men regarding athleticism and the ideal muscular build?

4 Should we blame the media and technology for individuals’ feelings of inferiority or inadequacy?

5 What, if anything, can we do to counter the effects of media messages and campaigns featuring male and female ideals? For example, why do you think Facebook removed “feeling fat” from its list of status update emoticons?⁵³ What effect, if any, has “fat talk” had on you or others?

Source: Gene Wojciechowski, “The Girl Who Could Never Be Thin Enough: One Family’s Tragedy,” special to Los Angeles Times, December 27, 1993. See also Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, New York: Morrow, 1991.