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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 … [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 … [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

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