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Have gotten thinner, the incidents of eating disorders and women having negative self-perception about their image have both increased. there very much is something to media portrayals of women feeding into this whole dynamic. >> you make a lot of great points but what this survey -- i thought showed me, it confirms what i already thought, what many people already thought that suppression and this pressure from female sexuality in many ways stems from women, not necessarily men. if you think abo...

Seldom is a government organization self perception so different from the public perception than the va is right now. national security core, jennifer griffin, looks at an organization thinks its doing a great job and how its falling short. >> it is celebrating what it claims is a reduction in record-high backlog disability claims. down 25% since may, a two-year low, but the va was celebrating long before the problems were fixed, handing out dollars where the regional director of the va, michael...

So i dont know how well these kids know about sexual identity and transgender and all of that. >> i didnt know anything about this. i still dont for the most part. >> no. >> so a 16-year-old boy has a self-perception hes a girl and hes going to play on the girls varsity tennis team? >> well, he certainly can try. i played on the boys soccer team, although anna tommicly, i am a girl. when you have a transgender child, and you have a 16-year-old boy perceiving and living and dressing as a girl, th...

Campaign will be? >> i do. >> what will it be? >> im not telling you. >>gretchen: a clinton spokesperson snapped back saying he had no clue what weiner was talking about. california passed a controversial law. governor jerry brown signing a law allowing transgender students kindergarten through 12th grade to use whatever locker rooms and bathrooms they use based on their self-perception. reporters say this will reduce discrimination but will be confusing for other kids. imagine strapping into ...

Bill that was signed, transgender is defined any way they want to! as long as a child has the self-perception that they are transgender, they will be able to go into any bathroom that they want. really, i think its a usurpation of local, parental and community control. these are things that should be up to the discretion of each individual school district and now its a mandate that affects every single classroom in california, from kindergarten through 12th grade. >> eric: its start not guilty k...

Range of civil rights issues. its interesting to note, which itch is the president going to scratch? and this is an itch, where he is from, and in terms of his own self perception, and that matters for a huge amount, and then on a wide range of other issues, it didnt seem as urgent for whatever reason. >> in terms of the general question of if you were to take the temperature on activists, i think from my reporting and i talk to these folks a lot, these are my people, the ltv activist has a warm...

Brown looks, because the way brown looks looks really nasty for some reason, but i dont know what reason. thats all. >> thats part of my conversation with brielle after she had taken the test and those answers that she gave me matched what she said on the test. theyre painful to watch. imagine how her parents felt, for them, like laura who you saw earlier, the test was a wake-up call. soledad obrien caught up with brielle and her parents recently. >> reporter: this is brielle today. her parents,...

>> well, not really, but sometimes. >> sometimes. and they asked what color adults dont like. do you remember what you said? which one? >> thats right. >> why do you think adults dont like that color? >> dark. >> dark. >> and adults -- you think adults dont like dark? >> well maybe some adults do, but maybe some of them dont. >> what brielle said and also in the pilot study was a wake-up call for parents to try to change the way they talk about race at home. soledad obrien caught up with brielle...

Home. soledad obrien caught up with her family recently. >> this is brielle today. her parents byron and leticia focused on changing her self perception. >> it made me feel like what are we doing wrong? we thought about some of the experiences she had where she has noticed her skin color at an early age and we thought that it was affecting her a certain way and didnt realize she realized it. >> her perception was that the golden hair or the lighter skinned kids got to be in line first for whatev...

Saying ah-ha? or did it just, did he just start to do the right thing? how did that happen? was there, was there a moment for george washington? >> i think it was a whole series of moments, but you know, in order to understand george washington, you have to understand his self-perception and his understanding of his role. we know of at least 67 occasions during the revolutionary war alone when he said that the american cause of independence would have come to a complete disaster except for one t...