Television Situation Comedies: Male Weight, Negative References, and Audience Reactions

By Gregory Fouts, Kimberley Vaughan. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update (2009, background): “These comments were also typically followed by audience laughter (115).”
Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias (2012, background): “... they explored whether the same would be true for heavy male characters they found that, while fat men were also underrepresented compared to the population, there was a smaller discrepancy than that for women, and that it was the heavy male characters themselves who made comments about their own”
Emerging in a Digital World (2013, background): “Compared with the general population, below average weight characters are overrepresented on television, with average and obese characters often receiving negative comments on their weight (Fouts & Burggraf, 1999; Fouts & Vaughan, 2002; Kaufman, 1980; Silverstein, Perdue, Peterson, & Kelly, 1986).”
Longitudinal Gender Differences in Objectified Body Consciousness and Weight-Related Attitudes and Behaviors: Cultural and Developmental Contexts in the Transition from College (2006, background): “For example, Fouts et al. (Fouts & Burggraf, 2000; Fouts & Vaughan, 2002 ) found that heavier than average individuals of both sexes were under-represented in television situation comedies, but heavier than average women were more under-represented than heavier than average men, which suggests that”
Gender and Age Group Differences in Mass Media and Interpersonal Influences on Body Dissatisfaction Among Chinese Adolescents (2012, background): “For example, heavier than average adults, especially women, are under-represented in American television sitcoms (Fouts and Burggraf 2000; Fouts and Vaughan 2002), findings that imply media messages about acceptable appearance target females more strongly than males.”