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By Douglas Quenqua, NY Times, November 19, 2012 It is not just girls these days who are consumed by an unattainable body image.

Take David Abusheikh. At age 15, he started lifting weights for two hours a day, six days a week. Now that he is a senior at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn,...

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I don’t get it. 

I was mocked and bullied all the time for my weight when I was younger and far more sensitive and impressionable. I was told to “man up” or “ignore it”.

Melissa McCarthy gets made fun of and now the whole world wants to rush up and give her a hug and call her beautiful?

Was I not beautiful? Was I not worthy of support and defense? Was I not worthy of love?

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To all my new (and hopefully future) followers

Hello! I'm very excited to be making this blog. Male body image is something I've always been interested, after witnessing many of my friends and even the cloest man in my life, my father, suffer from male body image issues and socially constructed ideas of masculenity. In this blog, I intend to share information about male body image, and analize some of the ways masculenity and society effects males. I would love to recieve feedback-positive or negetive. Got questions? Send them to me! Got concerns about a friend who you may think is suffering from an eating disorder? Talk to me! Disagree with something I post here? Tell me! The most signicant part of this blog is hearing back from all of you. I look foward to hearing from you all.

Happy blogging!

-C

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Male Eating Disorder Sigins

Signs that a male is suffering an eating disorder

Excessive working out

Withdrawl from home life

Depression

Agression

Excessive consumption of meal replacements such as protein shakes, bars, etc

Spending obsessive amount of money on workout equitment, gym memberships

Loss of hair

Males are are more likely to suffer an Eating disorder

Men involved in sports in which weight plays a siginifcant factor. Males who wrestle are 7 to 10 times more likely to develop an eating disorder

Homosexual men

Men who faced severe bullying when younger

Reblog this post to spread awareness, over a million men have an eating disorder in the US.

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Of course, when discussing males and body image, the issue of race presents plays a significant factor as well.

With the emergence of the "metrosexual" in mainstream media, it is more acceptable and sometimes even encouraged for males to be a little bit more feminine. However, this is not the case with African American male. Although African American and Cacasian males share similar insecurities, power and strength is more reinforced in the black male community. Hypermasculenized images of African American men such as 50 Cent (shown above) fill the media, thus creating an ideal of a strong, powerful and intimidating image of the African American male, in whcih many African American males acceot and embrace this image. Although the African American male may not have to be completely physically fit, he is expected to be large, either in muscle and fat, tall, and intimidating. Anything other than this will make an African American male seem feminine.

However, reacently, there has been a number of hip hop artists who are embracing metrosexuality. Artists such as Drake are now rapping more about emotions, and not embracing the thug culture. The "thug lifestyle" that raps roots were created on is now heading in another direction. This could possibly mean a new image of the African American male.

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The War on Men?

I think you guys may find this article interesting. In the article, Kimmel states that there is a "mytical war on men." That men feel that women and other minorities are stripping them away from jobs, scholorships and more. Although with affirmative action, there have been more women landing jobs and going to college, I agree with Kimmel that this is a power issue-that men feel that the power in which they have been taught their entire lives that they diserve, is now being stripped away from them.

So what does this have to do with male body image? Well, if men feel that they are being stripped from power in regards to jobs and education, they may want to reflect power within their body. By having a muscular figure, guys may believe that it willl reflect the power that they feel has been stripped from them. Also, the fact that men have the ability to look and be physically stronger than women, which is something that could never be taken away from then, plays a significant role in this as well.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/29/living/war-on-men/index.html

Thoughts? Comments?

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Here’s a piece I wrote for Mamamia on why I hate Photoshop.

Real men don’t Photoshop.

“It has been well documented on this site and all across the web about the ridiculous photoshopping practices of advertisers and marketers that create unrealistic and unattainable physical attributes for...

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I hate when this happens lol (HEADS UP: TMI, male body image insecurity post)

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I feel that this is good insight on how many men relate their bodies to their masculenity.

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Do you think the "new man" has caused problems in today's society?

What do you think about the character Tyler Durdon?

Do you indenify with any of the characters in the film?

I'd like to hear your responces!

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I feel that many men suffering from eating disorders feel that they are compltely alone. I think it's important to spread awareness and show that they are indeed, not alone.

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Manorexia

I'm curious. How do you guys feel about the term "manorexia?" Do you think it's just a term that displays anorexia among males OR do you mind the prase to be too playful and that it undermines the issue at hand?

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Finally the media at large is beginning to see that eating disorders are not gender specific nor are they specific to gay men only. And unlike females - males with Eating Disorders are most likely not striving to be thin rather muscular; toned or lean. These distinctions are important as they may...

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The deception of photo retouching.

How do you feel that photo retouching effects male self esteem?

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Finally the media at large is beginning to see that eating disorders are not gender specific nor are they specific to gay men only. And unlike females - males with Eating Disorders are most likely not striving to be thin rather muscular; toned or lean. These distinctions are important as they may...