I think we can all agree that women are highly sexually objectified in media, but these commenters argue that men are just as objectified as women. This thread was inspired by actress Natalie Dormer’s quote about the subject. She said, “My personal experience has been to work on phenomenal jobs in which the men are objectified as much as the women.” You can read the full article about her comments here. And below are opinions from people who agree with her. They also share many examples of times male actors were objectified. Actors are also forced to dangerously dehydrate and push their bodies to achieve unrealistic muscular physiques.
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I can confirm the strength thing. I work a pretty physical job that requires a lot of heavy lifting but if you were to look at me, you would not think I could do it. I’m 5’10”, a little overweight and only have some definition to my arms, but I can hold my own with the guys who’re 6’+ just fine.
Sort of side of the spectrum: I’d been 250 shortly before the Pandemic – not in a healthy way – and between fixing my diet and tracking calories (which also technically considered an eating disorder – thanks medicine) dropping the gym for daily (simple) calisthenics with a basic 30lb dumbbell and regularly walking: 6-8 miles without a bag, 5-6 with a backpack, 3-4 with a heavy backpack, and 1-2 with just a sports equipment bag filled with 80lbs of sand (and now jogging and running) and some bicycling in between. I *loathed* running before, now it’s enjoyable.
I’m down to 155-153 – which, *hilariously* is still considered a *hair* below being overweight by medical standards for my height.
I’m literally stronger, faster, more fit and capable than I was at 250. I can run a mile in under 10 minutes, I can jog with walking breaks six miles in a little under an hour, but popular media will say “You’re fat” because I don’t have any visible abs (still around 15% bodyfat) and standard medicine will say “Keep going, you’ve still got 10lbs more to lose” I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Don’t be ridiculous. Start? Wtf. You have already reached some big milestones my dude.
Most pro athletes… and I mean the ones on the thin side of things… not rugby or grid iron or anything like that (those guys are literally obese), but soccer, basketball, boxers and fighters, rowers, hockey, swimmers, some tennis players and even some gymnasts, are right around BMI 24-25. Lionel Messi? That guy who is considered a GOAT in his sport? 25.3 BMI! Would you look at him and go “hmmm, he’s kinda fat…?” Hell no! Roger Federer? 24.8. Rafa Nadal roughly the same. How about LeBron James? 26.8. Michael Phelps? That dude is a *lean* and mean 24.
How about Usain Bolt? He’s gotta be super small to be fast right? Still no. 23. Each BMI point is more or less 5-6 lbs so that means he’s “only” 10 or 12 lbs away from fat.
Let’s try a GOAT gymnast. Vitaly Scherbo had a BMI of 23.8. Again, 6-7 lbs away from fat. And this is a sport where being light is truly quite important (less weight – much easier to move and every pound counts when your joints are ramming into metal bars and pommel horses at high speed on an hourly basis).
Floyd Mayweather lies about his height; his BMI is probably around 24.
Conor McGregor – famously quite small – worked his ass off for SEVEN years to put on ~25 lbs of muscle. So this shit takes a loooooong ass time.
Anyway, you’re more than fine as far as health goes. No doctor will tell you otherwise. You are at the body recomp and maintenance stage. Congratulations!! YOU MADE IT!!!
What you need to do is eat generally healthy with lots of protein and veggies and just keep progressively overloading all your work no matter what it is. A year from now you’ll lose some of that body fat percentage… while having lost no weight or even gained some.
can confirm that all the people who i know would be considered ‘overweight’ by popular media can THROW HANDS
also thank you for this post, ive been trying to build muscle because i want to be stronger (im a weak lil alfredo noodle who cant scoop ice cream, no im not joking i literally cannot scoop ice cream by myself i have to go ask someone else) and what i got from this post (besides that beauty standards are shit no matter the gender) is that i dont have to “look” strong to *be* strong. thank you, i will now aim for loving my skinny beanpole ass the way i am while also being strong in a healthy amount. the goal here (for me) is to gain weight and strength, and if i dont *look* strong, GOOD! i have the element of surprise then!!