Whenever I look at the cover of a men’s magazine I want to cry. There is no way on earth I could ever compare to the airbrushed perfection that graces the covers of those mags. Just seeing them (in every one of my guy friends’ bathrooms) sends me on a downward spiral that inevitably leads to emotional eating and tears.
And I guess guys are beginning to feel the same way!
A new study out of the University of Missouri has found that the super sexy models doing their super sexy poses in laddie mags like Maxim and FHM have been having a negative effect on men’s self esteem. Whereas men used to love checking these ladies out (in the privacy of their own bathrooms, if you know what I’m sayin’), now looking at these girl just makes them feel inferior.
“Pictures of hot women, the study found, were more disturbing to a guy’s body image than were pictures of men with rippling abs and bulging biceps.”
Men feel so crappy about themselves from looking at these unrealistic representations of women that they have been requesting more realistic looking models!
Can you believe that? I mean, you know and I know that the models in those mags are total fantasy and the furthest thing from real women, but who ever thought guys would agree? It is about time men jumped on the “there is no way in hell any woman looks like that and we want to see the real deal” bandwagon!
Maybe this finally means an end to the unrealistic beauty ideals we have in our society and a celebration of what women really look like. You know, without the aid of baby oil, Photo Shop and fake boobs.



pallana says:
Thu, 4th Dec 20088:18 am
excellant
DIamond says:
Thu, 4th Dec 20085:20 pm
This seems too good to be true. The guys at my school were more than happy over the perfect Victoria’s Secret models on CBS last night!
Tolley Jenkins says:
Thu, 4th Dec 20085:57 pm
There’s probably truth to this, but it’s not because it makes men compare their bodies to the woman’s or something wierd like that. Rather, it’s depressing because the average man knows he could never get a girl like that.
Marie says:
Thu, 4th Dec 20086:02 pm
Somehow, I can’t feel pity for the guys.
After all, how do they think we’ve been feeling?
Bob Vance says:
Fri, 5th Dec 200812:46 pm
Not likely
Jogusto says:
Sat, 6th Dec 20088:54 am
Being hot is great. Let’s face it, everyone wants to be hot and be wanted. If you look at overbaked perfect photos, you feel you can never achieve that ideal, either for yourself as a man/woman, or in a partner.
This is not to say that visual beauty should be shunned or even criticised as too vapid and shallow. Rather, everyone — men and women alike — should acknowledge this as some kind of beautiful but unrealistic ideal, like the guy with the perfect 50’s Corvette restoration who has to polish off the tiniest fingerprint… you just can’t maintain that level of perfection in the real world. It’s totally illusory.
The best antidote to this effect is to realize that people really DON’T look like that! You think Megan Fox looks that good 100% of the time? NO! She has her natural assets, and they aren’t always in the best of form. And, so do we all! Make the best of who you are, be confident that you are 100% real and ready to rock with anyone else who is willing to accept their 100% realness, and then go out there and get some! Yea!
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