This
article by the Huffington Post is not something I was expecting to encounter as
it is based around how body shaming is also prominent for males as it is for
females. It goes on to tell the story of 19 males who pose shirtless and
recount their own personal feelings towards their bodies as well as their
bodies in comparison to other men their age. It makes a key point where it states
“men may have a harder time accessing communication tools to express their
insecurities and work through them”. This is also very true for male victims of
sexual assault because as a general consensus not many individuals believe that
1- men are victims of sexual assault and 2- men are also in search of the “perfect”
body and affected by body shaming. It goes to show that as a society we are
many times so focused on making the female gender the “victim” and portraying
women as the lesser gender that has to overcome so many obstacles, such as maintaining
a successful career, creating and tending to a family, obtaining the perfect
body, and other ideals, that we tend to forget that the male gender also
suffers from most, if not all, of these same constant pressures.
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