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So, you're fat. You're fat and you're a quasi-celebrity and you pose for a photo in a pair of underwear that leaves nothing to the imagination. If you're Beth Ditto, you'd have a hundred comments about how disgusting you are, how you should be worried about your health and how you should have some modesty. But if you're James Corden (who?), you'll get only three negative comments and a cheerful nod from the typically fat-hating Daily Mail. Apparently Corden has been seen numerous times with our girlfriend Lily Allen, a starlet who has been crucified by the Daily Mail for having the audacity to be larger than a size four.
Of course, we've all heard that the incidence of males suffering from eating disorders is on the rise, and guys can feel every ounce of bad body image that we do. But if guys like James Corden get a pass (although I've yet to find one instance in the news where James Corden is mentioned by name without a soft nudge about his weight), then can the media be entirely to blame for our internal issues? I wonder what Keely Shay Smith would have to say about that? The comments like a little cushion for the pushin'. 3 CommentsLeave a comment |
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And yet there is always some guy who insists that sexism plays no part whatsoever in the ideal female form. Which is never, ever viewed through the male gaze. Ever.
Right?
And I think he looks damn good.
I think he's hot.
The double standard is seen every time you turn on the tv in all of those comedies where there's a very trim wife and a rather rotund husband, King of Queens for example. It even exists in the world of animation for heaven's sake...just look at Homer and Marge Simpson and Peter and Lois Griffin.
Still, the pressure is definitely increasing on men to start carrying their weight in terms of fitting an ideal...wasn't Ryan Gosling recently rumoured to have been dropped by Peter Jackson because he'd gained a few? Even if the rumours were false, they only circulated to begin with because our darling Ryan relaxed with his work-outs.
Any boy I've ever dated has harboured insecurities with his appearance...one using Ryan Reynolds' chiseled physique as his personal motivation, another obsessing over the scales, weighing himself every morning.
I do think men are being caught up in this whirlwind of self-obsession and ultimately self-loathing that's perpetuated by the media, but I can't imagine it will ever reach the same extent as that which women must endure...and rather than wish that same suffering upon them, I would hope that ladies will be allowed relax into a state of self-acceptance, instead.