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Who’s Your Fave Fictional Male Rodel Model & Why?

November 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Update June 14, 2014 With Father's Day approaching I thought I'd add Common Sense Media's "Favorite Film Fathers" just for fun...and reprise my post about "Media's Portrayal of Father Figures On TV" ......But truth be told, I'm most excited that HUGE gains are coming with excellent books and films uncorking important conversations about healthy masculinity, including The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Atticus Finch, Bill Cosby, boyhood, boyhood studies, boys, boys to men, celebrity, Colby College, fame, fictional role models, Harvard Press, heroes, how marketing affects boys, Jonas Brothers, leadership, Lyn Mikel-Brown, MacGuyver, male, manhood, Mark Tappan, masculinity, media analysis, media-literacy, men, Mr. Darcy, Packaging-Boyhood, Pop-Culture, popularity, role models, sports figures, Team Edward, Team Jacob, teenagers, The new heroes and role models, Top 100 Fictional Male Role models, Tyler Cowan, WeDay, YPulse

Packaging Boyhood: What About BOYS Halloween Costumes?

October 19, 2009 by Amy Jussel 21 Comments

Oct. 25, 2016 Update: Given that media is slowly giving more coverage to the impact of body image on boys, including wee ones as young as six years old being 'fat-shamed' and toddlers even at age three, it seems sites from WebMD to health platforms are finally beginning to 'get it' that boys are being impacted with buffed boy cues and puffy superhero abs too! Choosing a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: action heroes, aggression, APA study, body dissatisfaction, Body-Dysmorphia, boys, boys Halloween costumes, buffed boy, bullying, candy scares, Case for Make Believe, children, cliche characters, corporate social responsibility, costumes, DIY costumes, dominance, eating-disorders, Gender, ghoulish, girlish, girls Halloween costumes, Halloween, Halloween horrors, Halloween makeup, health, heroes, Jackson Katz, Kids, kids costumes, Lyn Mikel-Brown, machismo, macho, make believe, makeup tips, male, Mark Tappan, masculinity, media-literacy, Michele Borba, Packaging-Boyhood, pimp costumes, pirates, power, prostitots, racy, raid boys souls, Responsible Men, revealing, salacious, scary, Sexualization, sexy costumes, Sharon Lamb, skanky, slackers, So Sexy So Soon, social-media, special forces, spooky, superheroes, Ted Rutherford, teens, tough guys, toxic cues to kids, Trick or treat, true child, violence, wicked innocence, youth