Please answer these questions as truthfully as possible, the first set of questions are for girls, the second set are for boys, thanks :) Girls Questions...
1. Would you prefer to be underweight or overweight?
2. Do the magazines make you feel like you are overweight?
3. Do you aspire to be like the models in the magazines?
4. Do you think it would be easy to make friends/ get a boyfriend if you were super thin?
5. Explain your answer to question 4
6. What do you think the main reasons are for teenage girls being anorexic?
7. If you want to, give your views on anorexia/ weight.
Questions for boys...
1. Would you ever make fun of a girl because of their weight?
2. Could the weight of a girl be the reason for rejecting her?
3. Do you prefer girls to be thin or curvy?
4. Do you find the figures of the models in the magazines attractive?
5. What do you think the main reasons are for teenage girls being anorexic?
6. If you want to, give your views on anorexia/ weight.
Thankyou for doing my survey, the answers will be very helpful :)
Larry the Englishman - (Boy)
ReplyDelete1. No
2. No
3. Curvy
4. No
5. The media.
Woop! - 1. Depends, I'm techecnally overwieght being a size 16, but I'd rather me a size 16 that a size 4, so in that terms I'd rather be overwieght. But if its extreme fat or extreme skinny, I'd say skinny.
ReplyDelete2. No, not into magazines
3. No
4. Not make friends no, but to get a boyfriend yes
5) Well for friends it depends on what type of friends they are, and there sterotype, and for the boyfriend thing, it seems to be all about confindence in yourself, overweight people lack confidence useally, as I do myself, so i have never seeked a partner.
6. Media
7. Being to skinny and overwight are the same to me, they both give people health issues and you get picked on for being one or the other.
Mel - 1. I would rather be overweight
ReplyDelete2. No I feel at an average weight for a shorty. From looking at the magazines, maybe I'm supposed to be taller?
3. Some models look good, sometimes I do wanna look like them
4. Being super thin is not attractive to guys. It won't change friendship.
5. Men like curves. I actually know a few guys that like a girl who is a bit overweight.
6. Teenage girls go anorexic because they fear obesity. They look at themselves as overweight even when they look healthy. They continue with their perceptions and it gets worse and worse. Its a mental and self-esteem issue.
7. Anorexia is very unhealthy and it can get so bad that it can be fatal. All you need is a healthy weight. Life is too short to be worrying about this kinda stuff though.
James - 1. probably not
ReplyDelete2. only if shes large in comparison to me
3. thin
4. noo
5. psychologically weak?
Lashes - Girls Questions...
ReplyDelete1. Would you prefer to be underweight or overweight? Underweight
2.Do the magazines make you feel like you are overweight? No
3. Do you aspire to be like the models in the magazines? Sometimes
4. Do you think it would be easy to make friends/ get a boyfriend if you were super thin? No
5. Explain your answer to question 4 I don't think body composition has much at all to do with a persons ability to make friends.
6. What do you think the main reasons are for teenage girls being anorexic? Illness/they don't see themselves as being overly thin. The second reason is probably some degree of the first reason combined with a lack of confidence or lonliness.
7. If you want to, give your views on anorexia/ weight. I don't think models,e tc. are "making" young girls anorexic. I think certain people are more prone to it, and that tendency, along with a lack of confidence might, in some people, combine to cause anorexic behavior. I just think people go too far in blaming the media. It's like, if people blamed that media for depression for playing too mad sad shows. It's a premature outlook that doesnt really get to the root of the issue.