The 21 century male body
In the essay “The media Assault on Male Body Image” by Brandon Kiem. Brandon Kiem disuses the interesting topic of the “real” male body image. Over the Past two decades the gender gap between objectifying females is equal to males. Brandon Kiem argues it’s hard to deceiver the “real body” from a magazine. You can’t smell he smells see the hair and blemishes that naturally occur on the human body. He talks about how people see the same images over and over they start to believe that it is what the male body should look like. The essay goes on to say that males unhappy with their physical appearance tend to engage in risky sexual behaviors because they detach themselves from the situation emotionally and mentally.
The male body image has been glorified all the way sense the roman era. The 21 century is nothing new. We have magazines Romans had sculptures of their finest warriors. What I do agree upon is the new bodybuilding era. People need to know that there is no way to look like some of the people they see in magazines do.
When I was young I was very fat or if you’re a mom you would say your son is husky. I don’t know if this is a code word but my size in pants was always husky growing up. My weight didn’t really affect me until I was in 8th grade. One day we had to do a mile run under 8mn, seems like no big deal now, but when you’re a chunky kid it was horrifying. I ran that mile I nearly puked but I made it. From that day I wanted to be better. I didn’t want to get fast and thin because I seen it on the media, I just wanted to be better than I was. That year every night I ran and ran. At the end of that year I ran a mile in 5 minutes and 45 seconds. I did this not because I felt uncomfortable with my body because I watched fit people on TV as the essay suggests. I just loved the feeling of busting through my own personal beariurs. I lost 45 pounds that year and also I had a grown about 6inches or so.
The human mind is a strange thing, now I wasn’t the husky kid I was skinny and I mean skinny around 6 foot weighing 130 pounds. I could run around 8 miles nonstop but now I wanted to put on the weight, get strong. My motivation this time was to beat my brother he was getting into bodybuilding and lifting and I wanted to beat him at his own game.
Knowing the best way to start was to gain knowledge I started reading flex magazine. I wanted to be as big as them and do whatever it would take. Looking back at my self now and knowing the things a do about bodybuilders and steroids I wouldn’t have spent my money on those magazines. The magazines would promise false hopes that you could get huge taking a little pill.
I now have friends who were past bodybuilders and told me the secrets. One was that they pump a ton of steroids. Two they fake the weights they show in the magazines. And three they are on so many drugs they take a thyroid hormone that makes your body heat raise to burn of extra body fat. They use meth before the show to increase vascularity. There is now way naturally you can look like those people in the magazines unless you do take steroids and estrogen blockers. I have seen people who didn’t do their homework and just take steroids and there estrogen trys to counter the sky rocketing testosterone levels and eventually gives them man boobs
So for my concluding paragraph I would just have to say I don’t think men get huge because they see some one on TV and want to be like them. I think it is the feeling of seeing progress in yourself knowing your hard work is paying off. Most off all that you have reached a goal that you have set. If you’re not moving forward you are standing still.
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