Fat talk and body snarking: Differences between girls and boys (Strandbu & Kvalem, 2014)

A Norwegian study has concluded that a “major gender difference” exists between how and when teenage boys and girls talk about body image, finding that that girls routinely engage in critical comments about their own bodies (“fat talk”) and those of other girls (“body snarking”), but that boys are reluctant…
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