Body dysmorphia. Believe me, men have it too. This was ongoing before social media with magazine covers. The top youth these days know all the tricks with the filters and the airbrushing to touch up the photos, so that they can look perfect on digital. It’s become kind of a joke that the picture is not what you get.
What bums me out more though is when they get lip injections or butt injections. Once any person goes down the road of Nip/Tuck cosmetic surgery, they are just carving up what talent they were given.
I met a guy who’s dad told him to move to Florida for tax and income reasons and the guy made me laugh by saying he would never go there because everyone he met was on steroids and meth in order to get that perfect body.
There was a time when, on the guy side, everyone wanted to look like Arnold, Sly, Shannon Sharpe or Bo Jackson. That was something that John Cena said, was that he was motivated by superheroes in the comic books or professional wrestling or Conan The Barbarian.
What is unfortunate is that some are autistic or OCD from whatever causes and the media bombardment of the pursuit of perfection leads to kind of a waste of time vain fixation. That being said, I think I prefer the health and fitness to the slob models they have now.