Looking Deviant 2

Question 1

The Brutal Black Project

Answer 1

• These people don’t care about the meaning of tats, are addicted to the feeling of getting tats
• The pain they feel is “pleasure” to them

Question 2

The “Ideal” Body

Answer 2

• Body size/weight is more likely to be used as a evaluative criteria for women
• BMI is not good at estimating body trends & doesn’t take into account muscle mass

Question 3

The Canadian Experience

Answer 3

• Provinces with higher immigration have a lower BMI than people born in Canada
• Some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada have the highest BMI
  ↳ limits on fitness possibilities (in danger when they’re in the neighbourhood)

Question 4

Childhood Obesity

Answer 4

• Child abuse is not always active harm
  ↳ it can be associated with neglect of the child as well
• If a chld os overweight society correlates that to the moms bad parenting
  ↳ sitgmatization of mother & child
• Giving children snacks is an easy way to appease them in low socioeconomic households

Question 5

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 5

• Extreme end of “underweight” may indicate anorexia nervosa
• Considered a mental illness
• Some people have a predisposition to anorexia
  ↳ mostly women

Question 6

Cause of Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 6

• Being overweight –> social and individual aspects
• Anorexia:
  1) Ego-psychlogical theories - not sure
  2) Family systems theories - anorexia is facilitated by overcontrolling families or being emotionally trapped
  3) Endocrinological theories - Contributed to by hormonal defects
  4) Sociocultural theories - Social norms that emphasize thinness

Question 7

Muscle Dysmorphia (Bigorexia) - opposite of anorexia

Answer 7

• Muscle Dysmorphia - disordered fixation on gaining body mass
• Men with these insecurities are lead to be more aggressive towards men and women
• Men are not supposed to care about how they look but of course they look at their body and are effected by it
  ↳ more men worried about balding, penis size(because of porn) etc

Question 8

The “Ideal” Body: Social Standards

Answer 8

• The ideal female body favours on the thinner side
• The ideal male body fits more in the middle of the spectrum

Question 9

Negative Perception of Being too Fat

Answer 9

• People perceived as obese are stigmatized heavily
• Female bodies have become thinner
  ↳ The average female model are 20% lighter than healthy

Question 10

Media Representation for fat people and men

Answer 10

• Less characters were portrayed as overweight or obese in media from 1999-2000
• Men were a lot more muscular in media representation between 1967-1997
• were underrep now over rep

Question 11

Social Control of being “Too Fat”

Answer 11

• Media pushes people to lose weight fast
• Commercial industry pushes supplements and pills on ppl as an easy way to lose weight
• Medicalization is surgery being an out of being fat (lipo)
• Government - idk?
• Communities have recrealtional facilities for people to work out at and lose weight

Question 12

Resting a Label of “Too Fat”

Answer 12

• Fat acceptance groups
  ↳ There are models who are “plus size”
• Their goals are to remove the stigma around “fatness” and promote physical fitness
  ↳ They want to alert people in the dangers of losing weight and how to social def of fat is not real & not a health risk

Question 13

Social Control of “To Thin”

Answer 13

• Perceptions of “too thin” = extreme instances
• Social control
  ↳ medicalized prevention & education
  ↳ media makes fun of people who are too skinny

Question 14

Resisting the “Too Thin” label

Answer 14

• Resistance to the label often means supporting extreme thinness
• Group in society that resists label of being too thin, they think there’s no limit to thinness
  ↳ promote losing weight even when you’re in the hospital, extremely toxic culture