Men's bodies in popular culture are more on the masculine (more muscular) side and women tend to be sexualized like seen without clothes more often and tend not to have as much muscle. In movies for example men are seen as more athletic and you can see the outlines of their muscles (like with the superman example given in class). As you would probably guess women are seen more with clothes off and as object like what we talked about in our last unit with those ads. Even though there are ads that do this to men too, its more common with women.
Men and Women are similar in the way that our bodies are treated is that they both tend to stereotype that we aren't sexy unless are bodies are in shape.
Even though they way men are supposed to look is changing the media tends to protray that women or men aren't supposed to overweight and that it's not healthy. If we are over certain weight they tend to say that its not sexy or attractive when that statement is completely false, i know tons of people that look a different way that are still beautiful. Why do we continue to degrade people by the way that they look?
The answer to your question is completely defeated. Over the past decade people have chewed at that answer, making it what is really an impossible way to achieve. Our views on people should not be on how they look, but on what is in the inside.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your last paragraph: men and women are treated similarly in that they there are stereotypes that surround both genders. Expectations remain for both that pressure both genders into adhering to the mold set by media and society. However, your question can't really be answered. It won't end, and every few years a new trend for body type comes alive.
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