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Originally Posted by squeeeb
au contrair....standing in front of a mirror, flexing to see if i had muscles, doing push ups in 4th grade because i'm supposed to be muscular like the wwf guys? lifting weights in 9th grade, some kids in high school were actually taking roids......sounds stupid now, but fonzie, vinnie barbarino, leif garret, any hairless boy on the cover of "Teen beat", "cool" guys who "got the chicks" and i didn't know why, but i knew i wasn't like them and i should be. as for the "mens magainzes" i mentioned earlier, GQ (giant queer), MENS VOGUE?!?!?!? , details, complex, men's health, mens journal, etc etc. men's versions of cosmo and glamour. all those hairless guys with flat abs and huge chisled pecs and a full head of wild untamed yet moussed hair, sporting the watches and shoes and clothes....all the chicks want that...and then there is me....ok, honestly boys don't have it as hard as girls, but we have our share of image pressure....starts when we are young, gets worse as we age...
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Fair enough. I still draw a distinction between an unattainable standard that leads you to 'roids or pumping iron (for men) or on that leads you to throwing up your food or throwing up your food (for women). Personally I prefer the choices the media presents to you men. And I still think you are not catching my drift about the hypersexualization... it is not so much that I was comparing myself to some unattainable standard in that situation, but that it was fucked up that I would think I should look more sexually attractive to men being an 8-year-old girl. When my brain created these inexplicable fantasy situations, the imagined audience was adult.
When you stood in front of a mirror, who was your audience? I'd be interested to know if it was generally girls, women, adults, or even specific people you know (like the little girl you liked who lived down the street). At least men's fitness magazines tout stuff that would be healthy, even if not for the best reasons. It would be nice if all the Vacuous magazines out there recommended extreme workout routines to get in shape instead of fad diets and beauty products. It would be extra nice if the shape the media portrayed as ideal was more athletic and less angsty waif.