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This video BBC Documentary from 1990 on Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, will help anyone understand how they are manipulated in todays society on large scale.
The symptoms you mention (females and body image) are just one component as part of programming and conditioning people to be consumer 'units', and manipulable 'slaves' as Eric Hoffer apply described. It's long but excellent educational material.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUzwRCyTSo]The Century Of The Self - YouTube[/url]