Video games today

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• Video games today
• portray women as
• sexual objects
• for mens pleasure

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• Girls as young as 9 claim to diet.

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Employers hold the notion that Youth are lazy and
inexperienced
Youth are generally the first to be laid off if
the company needs to downsized
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Is this the ideal body?
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• By the age of four or five, children already make
  judgments about overweight people and tend to
  like people who are thinner.

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Youth often deal with customer dissatisfaction
and abuse
Youth are the first to be laid off
Unpredictable hours
Little job security
Youth are paid the absolute minimum wage!
Harassment by employers is the most common
complaint made by youth
Dreadful working hours
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From 1980 to 1996, the rate of suicide among
persons aged 1519 years increased by 14 and
among persons aged 10-14 years by 100.
At age thirteen, 14 of girls call themselves
smokers
Boys are taught how to deal with their sexual
urges
80 of girls say they wish they were thinner.
Nine-tenths of the bullying that goes on in any
schoolyard is based on how kids look
Girls are taught how to deal with the
consequences of their sexuality
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I am now aware that we must not allow
misconceptions about our differences to prevent
us from learning more about who we are as people,
and what we share culturally.
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Womens healthcare needs have been based on
research done primarily on a male population
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Boys are falling behind in school male dropout
rates are rising significantly
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Smoking is too often aimed at youth using
cartoons and colourful advertisements
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TV Games among Male Players

• Duke Nukem 3D
• the male shooter uses X-rated pornography
  posters for target practice and is awarded bonus
  points for shooting naked, bound prostitutes and
  strippers who
• plead Kill me.

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Girls generally start puberty 2 years earlier
than boys at 8 years opposed to 10
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65 of youth suicides are committed by Gay,
Bisexual, or Transgender males.
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In the Western world, the hijab has come to
symbolize either forced silence or radical,
unconscionable militancy. Actually, it's neither.
It is simply a woman's assertion that judgment of
her physical person is to play no role whatsoever
in social interaction.
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Males and females define being healthy as two
different entities Females define it as
emotional, social and physical issues, while men
define it purely by physical conditions
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The news media is male dominated.
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Men are 4 times more likely to die from suicide
than women. Two-thirds of these kill
themselves with firearms.
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A large percentage of the youth today who are
homeless have never had a job, rather choosing to
make money off the streets with prostitution and
drugs
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Allow your teen to make decisions about food,
while making sure that plenty of healthy and
nutritious meals and snacks are available.
Women are much more likely to be underweight than
men
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If a woman has a female doctor she is 50 more
likely to receive a PAP test and 40 more likely
to receive a mammogram.

• Both can save her life.

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Every day Canadians and many other individuals
across the globe cant help but think of having a
different body type.
A body that is not their own.
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43 of men are unhappy with their overall
appearance
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In terms of sexual education, Youth learn from
youth
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For girls, feelings about their appearance
strongly determine their level of confidence.
Confidence tends to be linked to a capacity to
handle stress, to have good relationships at home
and at school as well as with peers, and to feel
generally happy
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Girls and PC Games

• Boys are more adept with technology because they
  spend more time playing video games than girls
  do, psychologists said.
• By Lisa Rabasca
• http//www.apa.org/monitor/oct00/games.html

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POOR OUTLOOK

• 50 percent of Canadian journalism school
  graduates are female.
• 25 percent of Canadian journalists are female.

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What is GTA?
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• Officially,
• racing game

• Mature-rated

• Many parents
• Buy for their
• children

• Big industry, everyone has one

• player can do anything stealing, have sex with a
  prostitute, and kill her to gain extra points

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But here in Canada, the issues change.
Some of the Asian youth in Canada are new
immigrants and refugees who cling so strongly to
their own cultures that their beliefs have not
changed very much since their arrival here.
Others, though belonging to a visible minority,
know little of our ancient traditions and values
and therefore cannot be expected to follow the
strict expectations of their ancestors. Arani
Kajenthira is 16 years old.
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More than ever before, men are turning to plastic
surgery to re-model their bodies.
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32 of youth who live below the poverty line
have some form of post-secondary education
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Boys are lacking basic traditional literacy skills
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• Be aware and know that your body is unique and
  being different is beautiful.

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Our Objective
We hope to use our collaborative research, and
the Acadia Advantage, to work with our community
partners to break down existing negative gender
stereotypes. We then hope to build positive
gender representations for Canadian Youth. We
have some very exciting ideas, and look forward
to working with you over the coming months.
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Song Composed by Jane Berry
Group Members Amanda Andrews Michael James
Bachelor Jane Berry Renée Bourque Andrew
Griffin Ginger MacPhee Michelle Markey Laura
Neil Keiko Ogura Zach Osborne
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