Seminar 2.5

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Seminar 2.5

• Body Image

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Do Now

• Answer the following questions in your notes
• 1. Have you ever been judged based on your
  appearance?
• 2. What was the situation?
• 3. How did you feel?

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Appearances

• Look at the following images.
• Record your honest first reactions on the chart.
• Write down any comments about the way these
  people look.
• Next write down any assumptions you have about
  their lifestyle.
• Finally write down what you think their
  personalities might be like, based on their
  appearances.

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Lets Continue the Discussion

• Now I have pasted in pictures of a variety of
  celebrities.
• Lets discuss those three columns for these
  peoplewe might have some knowledge (or alleged
  knowledge) about their personalities and
  lifestyles.
• Lets also discuss how the media and
  entertainment industry treats people with
  different body types.

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Dont Judge a Book by its Cover

• Our society constantly judges people on their
  appearances. Here are some cultural phenomena
  that are based on judging people by their looks.
  Lets discuss them.
• Cliques
• Beauty Pageants
• Reality TV
• Americas Next Top Model
• Beauty and the Geek
• Can you think of others?

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Media Images

• We are bombarded by the medias ideal body image
  every day. Think about how many people you know
  who look like Eva Longoria.
• Media ideals affect both guys and girls, but
  lets watch this clip from Dove Films to get an
  idea of all the images girls are exposed to.

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Our Own Self-Image

• We judge ourselves too. Many of us are very
  critical of our own appearances.
• Think about all the things you wish you could
  change about your appearance.
• This might be pretty easy for some of you.
• Maybe you are pretty happy with your appearance
  overall.

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The Negative Impact

• Sometimes this self-judgment and not feeling
  good enough can literally make you sick. In
  fact, the root causes for eating disorders almost
  always come back to a feeling of being not good
  enough. The idea that our image or our appearance
  is what makes us good leads people to try to
  control their bodies in really damaging ways.

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Activity 2

• Now, this might be harder for you, but I want you
  to make a list of everything you like about your
  body and your appearance.
• You need to come up with at least 10 things.
• They can be as small as I have clean toenails
  or as big as I have a beautiful (or handsome)
  face.

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• This is just the start, because we are so much
  more than our appearances, even though we live in
  a world that judges people based on how they
  look.

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• Go back to your list of 10 things you like about
  your appearance and add to it 10 good personality
  traits, qualities, talents or abilities you have.
  Are you a good friend? Are you creative? Can you
  make an awesome grilled cheese?
• Come up with 10 things that you like about who
  you are.

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• We can get confused with basing our identities
  on what we have or what we do or what we look
  like. It is important to remember that who we are
  is whats inside. Our personalities, our minds,
  our spirits. Keep this in mind the next time you
  want to judge someone else. Keep this in mind the
  next time you want to judge and criticize your
  own appearance.

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Ticket Out

• On your piece of paper, I want to you make up 2
  rules or guidelines for yourself.
• For example,
• 1) I will not make critical or mean comments
  about other peoples appearances.
• 2) I will not make negative comments about my
  body, and if I do so by accident, I will follow
  it up with a positive comment.
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• 3) I will only say thank you when someone
  offers me a compliment on my looks.