Television Situation Comedies: Female Weight, Male Negative Comments, and Audience Reactions

By Gregory Fouts, Kimberley K. Burggraf. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias (2012, background): “bodies is a socially acceptable behavior ( Fouts and Burggraf 2000 ).”
Real Women Have Curves (2008, neutral): “Media images of women today are much thinner than the actual female population (Fouts & Burggraf, 1999, 2000; Kaufman, 1980) and are often slim enough to be considered undernourished (Barber, 1998; Rubinstein & Caballero, 2000; Signorielli, 1993; Wiseman, Gray, Moismann, & Ahrens, 1990).”
Television Situation Comedies: Male Weight, Negative References, and Audience Reactions (2002, methodology): “This is in sharp contrast with the findings for heavier female characters ( Fouts & Burggraf, 2000 ), who not only receive more negative comments from male characters than do thinner characters, but also have their negative comments reinforced by audience reactions.”
The Internet and Adolescent Girls’ Weight Satisfaction and Drive for Thinness (2010, background): “Certainly formal content analyses of both women’s magazines and television reveal a preponderance of young, tall and extremely thin women ( Fouts and Burggraf 1999, 2000; Malkin et al. 1999), as well as high levels of gender stereotyping and reinforcement of gender norms (Labre and Walsh-Childers 2”
Body Image and Self-Esteem Among Adolescent Girls: Testing the Influence of Sociocultural Factors (2005, background): “For example, a recent content analysis of TV sit-coms found that 76% of female characters were below average weight (Fouts & Burggraf, 2000).”
Television Viewers' Ideal Body Proportions: The Case of the Curvaceously Thin Woman (2003, background): “The only researchers to report actual bust, waist, and hip measurements (rather than BMIs or ratios) were Garner et al. (1980). They reported average bust, waist, and hip measurements for Playboy centerfold models of 90.”
Body Image and Self-Esteem Across Age and Gender: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study (2010, background): “Indeed, in contrast to female depictions whereby the broadcast of thinness is consistent and overwhelming ( Fouts and Burggraf 2000; Livingstone 1996), Fawkner and McMurray (2002) found that the majority of 34 men in their focus groups noted that there is an image diversity with respect to media pr”
Media Exposure, Current and Future Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating Among Preadolescent Girls: A Longitudinal Panel Study (2006, background): “That television exposure predicted internalization of at hinadult body ideal is not surprising given the frequency with which thin adult women are praised and fat adult women ridiculed on television ( Fouts and Burggraf, 1999, 2000 ), coupled with the frequency with which prepubescent children natio”
Changes in Television and Magazine Exposure and Eating Disorder Symptomatology (2003, methodology): “Television situation comedies, which are particularly popular with impressionable young adolescents, not only model thinness but also show male characters making positive comments about thin characters and negative comments about those who are heavier ( Fouts & Burggraf, 1999, 2000 ); the negative c”
Who's that Girl: Television's Role in the Body Image Development of Young White and Black Women (2004, background): “…(Silverstein, Perdue, Peterson, & Kelly, 1986), thinner than media images of women have been in the past (Silverstein et al., 1986), thinner than the actual female population (e.g., Fouts & Burggraf, 1999, 2000), and thinner than the criteria for anorexia (Wiseman, Gray, Moismann, & Ahrens, 1990).”
The Role of Social Comparison in the Effect of Magazine Advertisements on Women's Mood and Body Dissatisfaction (2004, background): “Certainly formal content analyses of the visual media (fashion magazines, television advertising, and programming) document a preponderance of young, tall, and extremely thin women who epitomize the current beauty ideal (Malkin, Wornian, & Chisler, 1999; Fouts & Burggraf, 1999, 2000).”
Shaken and Stirred: A Content Analysis of Women’s Portrayals in James Bond Films (2010, background): “Compounding this, content analyses have found that female images have become increasingly thin in recent decades (Fouts and Burggraf 2000; Silverstein et al. 1986) and that audiences judge larger female characters differently (e.”
Young Adults' Wishful Identification With Television Characters: The Role of Perceived Similarity and Character Attributes (2005, background): “On television, for example, Livingstone (1987, 1989) found that the perceived intelligence of soap opera characters was unrelated to the extent to which they were viewed as dominant and powerful within the narrative.”
The role of the media in body image concerns among women: a meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies. (2008, background): “…programs, thinness is consistently emphasized and rewarded for women (e.g., Fouts & Burggraf, 1999), and thin television characters are over- represented while overweight characters are underrepresented (e.g., Fouts & Burggraf, 1999, 2000; Greenberg, Eastin, Hofschire, Lachlan, & Brownell, 2003).”