This is an older article from Ms. Magazine in 2008 but is yet more investigation and evidence in to the harmful effects of media on body image and dysmorphia as well as self esteem. It’s always been a problem that the powers that be ignore in favour of addiction to consumerism via the attention economy. Just as Facebook know about the harmful effect of Instagram on young girls and choose to do nothing about it.
I keep seeing the name Jackson Katz coming up and turns out he’s written a lot and speaks about male violence, masculinity and gender equality so will be looking into him further also.