Blog 6

My understandings from class have led me to believe that society has deemed certain rules for how the male and female body should look. Anything that falls short of these expectations are deemed unworthy and invaluable. In addition, a tremendous amount of work is required to achieve each specific body type-- along with genetics. Each gender is very sexualized in the media as well, but the ways in which it is displayed is different. However, females are expected to be incredibly skinny and submissive, just as described in the video that we watched, Killing Us Softly. They are meant to look beautiful all of the time with little regard to personal comfort or needs. In contrast, men today are meant to look incredibly muscular. When reading The Male Body as a Fashion Accessory, it described that men must be handsome with an athletic build to show that they have the time and money to buy a gym membership and work out.