You never hear a girl say "I want more weight!". it seems there objective is to loose weigh to fit into with the typical female body shape seen in the media. But the media also affects male body images. On TV the bigger the males muscles are, the better they are portrayed. The way some females obsess over loosing weight, males can obsess about gaining muscle weight. The boy in the photo is working out, not that he looks like he is out of shape, but he wants to reach that perfect media male body. He is sourrounded by the workout equipment, the same way as the media surrounds him in life. He is positioned below most of the equipment indicating that he has not achieved the body he wants yet, and is not above working out. The scale sits beside him, it the constant thought of the weight that he longs to put on. The intensity of the color in the photo represents the intense working out.
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Clothes are made to fit our bodies. Bodies are not made to fit our clothes. All the pressure from the media does make people think they need to change their bodies to fit the media's standards, instead of just being happy with their body. They think their body is not beautiful until it is the "perfect size."
This picture definitely says a lot about how males are pressured into the same body image pressures that women are. The way the picture is set up is a perfect example of that. More and ore males are feeling the need to become bigger, as that is what is portrayed in mas media. Most of them don't go about it in a healthy fashion, just as the females do not. This can cause just as many health problems as bulimia and anorexia in the girls that are trying to achieve the "perfect" body
This picture definitely talks about how males are always pressured to be a certain body type. You dont ever think about males having low self-esteem or having body issues. But just like girls, guys also do go through eating disorders. Which i think is really interesting. In my opinion, males have a lot more pressure to be so called "ideal" man that the media has created. Impossible standards that are impossible to achieve.
My boyfriend has an obsession such as this picture portrays. He is constantly talking about getting in shape and will look at the television and see someone like Vin Diesel and ask me if I want HIS BODY to look like that. My response is always the same, that I will love him no matter what. I think the media definitely puts a strain on both men and women as far as physical perfection is concerned and is not at all healthy. It's a sad thing when fattening has to become a legal matter as it has overseas.
I like how in this picture the person has no shirt on, exposing his body to everyone. It shows that he is striving to make those muscles larger to fit into society's gender roles. He's positioned in the corner of the photo with the majority of the space being filled with weights to show that he is being taken over by the idea of getting larger.
I believe this photo and article is so very true. Girls grow up playing with skinny, perfect, blonde, barbies and they believe that is what they should look like. While boys play with G.I. Joes that are extreamely buff, have little heads, and the boys aspire to be like them. It is quite funny how girls want to be as skinny as possible, while boys want to be as big (muscular wise) as possible. Also, a man with a weight problem isnt looked down upon as much as a girl with a weight problem. Girls beat themselves up about it, and boys are just so much more comfortable in their own skin.
This is a good picture, of how guys try to stay in-shape to look like the ideal body figure in society or what the media portrays the average body image to be.
This picture shows how unrealistic our expectations for having the perfect body have become. In today's society, not only women feel this need to have the perfect body but men do too. The media has created a society that is extremely obsessed with physical appearance. If average looking people were shown more in the media, our society wouldn't be so focused on looks.
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