Men feel the pressures of society just as much as women. Through my internet searches I have come across nothing that encourages body positivity in men. This needs to change.
Please, tell me of the struggles this dude faces as a white male. I’m really interested in hearing about the alternate reality that he inhabits.
WHAT A DUMBASS POST
CRY HARDER WHITE BOY
Booohooooo who says all girls wanna look like barbie dipshit
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you guys honestly saying that just because he’s a man and white? Are you fucking kidding me? You all do realize you’re technically saying right? You’re pretty much saying that that this guy has no right to be sad because there are people out there who have it worst. I thought that was one of the main things you never tell a person with depression, so why are any of you saying that here?
Seriously, what world do you guys live in? What if a white man abused as a child? What if they were told that they were not good enough by their family and and people around him? Do you think every white guy lives a life where everybody loves them, nobody thinks their ugly and they get everything they want by simply asking for it once? You have to be a fool to believe that.
Are you trying to tell me that a white person can’t be depressed because he is “privilege over everybody else”? Let me put it to you like this: Let’s say you have a white man loses his job, is insecure about his body (because maybe he’s not very tall or muscular, which is what society today a man should look like), and has no friends. Now let’s say you have a successful black business woman who is paid well, has a great social life, but also has depression. Which one of these two people has more right to be depressed? The answer: NEITHER!!!! Because depression is not always about how successful you are life or what you have in life. Depression is feeling that you’re not a good enough person no matter who you are and how hard you try.
All you that contributed to the above commentary should be ashamed of yourselves. There are people out there, include white boys, who hate themselves because of their looks. They will self harm just like anybody else with self hate issues, but none of you care. All you care about is there gender and skin color. I’d hate to see what any of you would say if ever met a cutter that happened to be a white gut. What would you say when he shows you his scars? Will you laugh at his face? What if he told you that he attempted suicide? Would roll your eyes at him?
None of you are any better than those racist and sexist people you claim to hate so much. You don’t equality. You want anybody that shares physical similarities with the “oppressor” to feel like shit. You want people who to be looked down upon because of the there race and gender; two things they have no control over.How is that any better than someone belittling a black/hispanic/asian/etc person because of a broad and untrue generalization?
I’ve come to realize this important fact: Tumblr doesn’t the safe have for logical people that some many people want to claim it is. It’s full immature, hypocritical , and ignorant people just like any other website. I don’t care if I lose followers because of this. This has to stop.
Fucking thank you.
HOLY SHIT, REBLOGGING THIS FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
Adding to this. Last year, I interviewed a woman who works as a therapist at a clinic for people with eating disorders. I was doing a project about body image and eating disorders. My group was comprised of three of us, girls of different backgrounds, body types, and races. We automatically assumed we’d focus our project on teenage girls. But the woman we interviewed told us something interesting. While it’s still more common for women to have eating disorders, men being treated for eating disorders is becoming more and more common. Why is this surprising? I stand in line at the grocery store, I see magazines with women in lengerie, and I see men’s health magazines bearing pictures of men with large muscles, thin waists, and defined six pack abs, which is actually an extremely unhealthy image for a man to possess. Are you aware that abs like that require an unhealthily low level of body fat, as well as dehydration? And yet we demand it of men. Society’s standards for men’s appearances is just as fucked up, it’s just not mentioned as much because anytime someone tries to speak out about it, things exemplified in the comments above occur.
This OMG so many times this! Also, I must add, as an FTM Transgender, this truth becomes painfully obvious. You really don’t realize the pressure put on another demographic until you start living that life, which is what’s happening to me. My body image as a male is even worse than average because my brain tells me I should already be that way, then people look at me and see that my body is far from that, no matter how hard I try, and it feels like I’ll never be there. It’s so bad it’s hard for me to spend time near my guy friends. even the one I consider to be like a brother to me. Because it makes me jealous that these things come so much easier to them, no matter how hard their lives are or aren’t… and I don’t want to hate them for it so I sort of avoid their contact.
Also, a huge round of applause for letssaynotonormal.
