Some thoughts on male body image.
In 1960 Disney released The Swiss Family Robinson, and a guy named Jame MacArthur was something like the male lead. He was twenty or so, handsome, nice body, etc.
He wasn't exactly there as a sex symbol, but he was a good looking guy and it probably wasn't entirely coincidental that he spends about half the movie running around without a shirt on. What I find interesting about this is that by modern standards there is no way he would be allowed to run around shirtless in a movie. He doesn't have toned arms and cut abs, he's got a kind of scraggly fuzz on his chest. He looks like a fairly normal, handsome twenty year old guy.
Compare that to the male leads in movies today and get report back on the difference.
In 1960 Disney released The Swiss Family Robinson, and a guy named Jame MacArthur was something like the male lead. He was twenty or so, handsome, nice body, etc.
He wasn't exactly there as a sex symbol, but he was a good looking guy and it probably wasn't entirely coincidental that he spends about half the movie running around without a shirt on. What I find interesting about this is that by modern standards there is no way he would be allowed to run around shirtless in a movie. He doesn't have toned arms and cut abs, he's got a kind of scraggly fuzz on his chest. He looks like a fairly normal, handsome twenty year old guy.
Compare that to the male leads in movies today and get report back on the difference.
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dooblecain:
watch jason and the argonauts, no man is in extremely good shape and even hercules looks like an old grizzled truck driver with a gut
scarydoll:
It has most definitely happened to men as well as women. In my experience, however, women don't really expect all men to look like Brad Pitt. Men sometimes have unrealistic expectations of women, though. Of course, my perspective is biased. 