Men battling their weight

Cohen’s argument suggests, “six pack abs and tony triceps plastered across magazine covers and ads,” is the reason why there’s a growing number of the male population contending with anorexia, binge-and-purge eating, and obsessive workouts.” Meaning more and more males are striving or struggling in rivalry or battle with manorexia a term used for males suffering from anorexia nervosa- an eating disorder in which the effected is driven to lose or maintain an abnormally low weight for there age and height. Binge-and-purge eating- when a person will binge eat or eat excessive amount or food and then vomit all the food back out repeating this process each time they eat. And obsessively working out or working out too much.

Although I do not agree with Cohen I do not disagree completely. I believe that the media and its affiliates do influence men and the image they attempt to create for themselves. However I think women are the grander or main influence in a man’s self image. Men have the habit to try and impress beautiful women. Men love women. And for the most part men love sex. And women don’t want to have sex with overweight out of shape men. At least that’s what men choose to believe. So they look around, they observe what they think women want. In movies, magazines, reality television, and talk shows. The outcome of this in depth observation is women want this tall, dark, Brad Pitt style man in Calvin Klein boxer briefs. Then comes the gym membership followed by the diet plan.

From a more personal perspective I can not say I know any men who suffer from an eating disorder thankful. One example I can shed light on is what a friend of mine would call a “typical;” a typical Fall River guy and its because of the women they desire that these typical Fall River guys become very much identical. A typical is always dressed like he has somewhere really important to go. Always has his hair pampered. A typical offend spends more time in the bathroom to get dressed and ready than a girl would. There wardrobe consists of Ed Hardy, Nike Air Jordan, Artful Dodger, and LRG knockoffs. They all have their ears pierced with a beautiful set of cubic zirconeions. You can walk into a Providence club on a Friday night and lay eyes on the entire Ed Hardy clothing line for that season. These young men do this to attempt to attract women they believe are attracted to such foolishness. If they could allow themselves to look so ridiculous amongst the tens of 100’s that look just like them, it is not hard to believe that other men would develop true diseases over obsession of self images.