Male Body Image

The essay titled “The Body of the Beholder” by Michele Ingressia from the textbook To the Point is about how black girls and white girls view their bodies. If you were to make a comparison Michele Ingressia says that they view their body images in very different ways. She writes about how black girls don’t mind gaining some weight while white girls do. They are always dieting to have the perfect body but never satisfied with what they have. This essay seems to be a very persuasive because it provides facts and statistics to back up what she has to say.

I agree with how the media depicts the body image because it is just a tool that was created by humans. It is always improving every day, every hour to convey to users with the desire as real as possible. It only does follows the idea or purpose of an individual or group of people, such as it describes in detail outside and inside the body image to serve the medical or entertainment industries. On the user side, we only select, track what is considered to be a good and match for us.

Since I was very young my family has always encouraged a typical thin body as the “healthy” body. I remember we had a very traditional family dinner with a meat, carb, and many vegetables, we were not allowed to leave the table until our vegetables and salads were finished. After dinner, we typically took walks around the golf course, played soccer or basketball, or swam. Nothing about this appeared to me at the time as anything different or encouraging to be fit and thin or that it was even becoming internalized that this was being instilled to us as that desired way to be. I can remember two specific events that happened when I was very little that began to encourage me to be conscious of my weight and by association look at others’ weight. The first memory was visiting my grandfather. This is when I noticed how much of my families eating and exercise routine

I am a dancer. I develop technique in the studio, learn choreography, push myself to create art from movement, and I feel good doing it. Dancers, especially ballerinas, need an immense amount of athleticism, commitment and passion, but in this day and age success requires something more: a tiny body. This idea that dancers must be thin in order to excel has drastically impacted how I, as well as many other dancers, view ourselves. Because many of us look up to idolized dancers, like Maria Kochetkova or Hayden Hopkins, we get discouraged and insecure when we don't have the same body type. Of course, dancers aren't the only people who struggle with body image. Body image is how you envision yourself in your mind or the way you perceive yourself

Social media, advertisements and movies have an impact on body image among teenagers. The increased use of social media specifically within teenagers allows teens to compare themselves not only to popular public figures but to their peers. A Region in Fiji having no television and no eating disorder cases got television “Within three years of television being introduced to the region, the amount of girls who induced vomiting to control their weight increased by 11 percent and the amount of girls scoring highly on a test for eating disorder risks increased by 16 percent”(Mulliniks). There was a substantial growth in the amount of cases of eating disorders. Researcher saw a direct correlation with television and eating disorders. Prior to the

Why is it so difficult for people to live in a society where they truly feel comfortable with being themselves? Whether it is the color of their skin, their hair, thier weight, their intellegence level. Its is hard for the average human to truly love and embrace who they are. For many years, society has placed pressure upon the lives of many males and females and has led them to believe that there is a certain standard for how one must look and act. All Advertisments, Television, etc. advertize do is make people feel self concious about their bodies. The 2014 Victoria Secret “Perfect Body” campaign sparked lots of uproar when it was released. On the campaign photo stands 10 tall women each with long hair, flat tummies, and long legs accompanied

In adolescent’s years, the process of the development stages to boy’s bodies takes place. A male’s body structure and how it is perceived by society contributes to their construction of their masculine identities (Addis, M. E., Reigeluth, C. S., & Schwab, J. R., 2016). Swain (2003) researchers suggest males constructed their sense of self through their bodies which are used as a social symbol to peers that is a display of masculinity. Kimmel (1997), suggest males create their masculine identities through their social interactions, such as sports. Within sports, masculinity is heavily highlighted, because society perceives a muscular sculpture and athleticism as male qualities. Researchers examined how males use their bodies in intimidating ways in sports which reveal their hypermasculinity (Iudici, A., & Verdecchia, M., 2015). For instance, boys will join a sport and use their bodies when participating in athletics to show a physical sign of “toughness”. In sports or physical activities, boy’s masculinity are showcased. Many males measure their own body’s strength and skills to other males (Kehler, 2010; Swain, 2003). Through various interactions, males acknowledge that they have to obtain a powerful and strong body. More importantly, males seek to gain a status through their strengths and skilled body (Kehler, 2010; Swain, 2003). Males that have masculine sculpted bodies are able to attain positions of others males. Typically, in Physical Education (PE), a boy’s

In today’s society, people tend to focus a lot on females and the problems they have concerning their body image based on popular culture, stereotypes, and other generalizations of how a woman “should look.” What we do not realize however is that males struggle with their body image as much as females do and are often not recognized in their fight to meet the expectations of society. Males struggle with all kinds of eating and body disorders just as females do and the expectations pushed on them by the media, women, and even other guys. There is a frightening lack in treatment because guy’s hardships are ignored and even overshadowed by women’s struggles. Males also go through the harmful effects and risks that come with the efforts they

The typical teenage girl wakes up each day and immediately opens her phone or electronic device to get online and check her various social media apps. During that time, she will start her day being bombarded with hundreds, maybe thousands of images of females throughout her day. In addition to social media, TV and magazine ads are using impossible standards of beauty to try to convince young girls that if they buy their products, they can achieve these levels of beauty and perfections. Because of these “flawless images” of perfect women, this can cause some girls to develop very negative feelings about their own appearance and it can sometimes lead to major health issues. Research and studies have suggested that when girls see all these ads

Body image is how one views himself or herself when looking in the mirror, and the body image expectations put forth in our society today is ridiculous. Although many “plus-sized” models are starting to appear in advertisements, there is still a perceived body image for all women to be youthful, slender, and attractive, while males must be buff, tan, and handsome. These are only some of the many expectations men and women have to deal with on a daily basis in order to have the “perfect body”. But many of these images on billboards, magazines, TV, and movies are “unattainable because they were created through surgeries, eating disorders, and airbrushing on photographs” (Ballantine, Roberts, Korgen 299). The National Center for Health Statistics

For centuries men have been comparing their bodies to the media, and looking for ways to achieve the expectations of societies perfect muscular body image. In the past men would try to look like weight lifters, so they could have bigger muscles. Today, not that much has changed. Men are still comparing their body images to male role models. One good example is NFL football players like Tom Brady, Cam Newton, and Russel Wilson. These role model body images effect how men pursue their own body image goals. These men want a muscular body; however, some men fall short of their expectations. They feel that they are incapable of having a muscular healthy body, so they end up experiencing negative body image effects such as body hate, unhealthy dieting habits, and low self esteem.

The first point I would like to make regarding the article., Beauty (Re) Discovers the Male Body, is that I agree with the general idea of the article as a whole. The article discusses the sigma of sexual orientation among American society. There are certain standards or stereotypes that a man or women of any sexually have to face. Why can’t a person in America be free to express their sexuality? It’s because of the judgment that is created through the stereotypes in American Society. I believe that American should do away with the blindness it has created and free itself to an more open minded entity that will create an environment where sexual orientation is not something that matters.

Have you had the experience of talking to someone who finds it hard to maintain eye contact with you? How do you feel?

“Be Map.” In Vietnamese, it means “fat girl.” I’ve internalized those words because it’s a nickname given by my own family since I was born. But today, rather than complaining about my belly, Mom scowls at my hollow cheeks.

A 2015 report by Common Sense Media, an agency that monitors children’s media, states that over one half of girls and one third of boys, as young as six years of age, think that they need to be thinner (Body.) Body image is not solely based on how a person looks, but how they feel and act in response to their perceived appearance. Body image had changed with culture and with society’s changing values.