You may have been a bit shocked today when you navigated over to GMP and found our Editor-in-Cheif butt-ass naked on the front page…
Well, that’s the point! We want to talk about men and body image.
What hangups do you have? How does society encourage those hang-ups?
Are David Beckham and the mostly-naked underwear models that adorn billboards and magazine ads doing in your sense of self-worth?
How do you combat that?
This is an open discussion, so you can talk about anything here relating to men and body image.
If you haven’t yet, head on over to the Men and Body Image section… Don’t worry, they don’t all have naked photos in them!
Photo of Danny courtesy of his post, Presence.
Kaleb’s piece, What If I Don’t Have It, describes a couple of different ways in which we can view our bodies: functionally and aesthetically. As a weight lifter, I also effected this kind of transformation, and like both Kaleb and Danny, found out what mixed messages men can receive about having larger bodies. We’re strong and capable, but like Danny finds out, you can be so large (read: highly visible) that it’s practically you’re defining characteristic, and still be accused of sneaking up on people. We had a thread here on the site back when Shrodinger’s Rapist was the subject,… Read more »
We had a thread here on the site back when Shrodinger’s Rapist was the subject, about men who feel the need to make extra noise coming up the street so they don’t frighten people by doing something so natural as showing up quietly on foot. Yeah and I also remember that as men we are supposed to be okay with being held to this standard unlike you know, any other group of people on the planet being held to such an unfair standard. I see men struggling with how much space they take up, and taking up space has different… Read more »
My latest crush is William Levy (Cuban telenovela/ DWTS hottie/JLo “I’m Into You”)….what’s really hot is also his vulnerability and those big sad brown eyes of his….and, of course, his cha cha and tango!
as many GMP readers know I am a fan of metrosexual men:
https://goodmenproject.com/arts/in-praise-of-metrosexual-men/
Beckham has done a lot I believe for men in making it acceptable for men to be more into what they look like and to experiment with their look. The wearing of the Sarong for example was an iconic image.
I am not a man. But as a woman though I am influenced by images of women with perfect bodies in advertising etc, I don’t see this shift towards men being ‘objectified’ and ‘idealised’ as women are as wholly negative.