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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Women's bodies not the only ones under extreme pressure

Details magazine offered a recent slideshow showing how the pressure to meet body image ideas has now taken root for men as well, breaking the body down into more and more pieces that need to be perfected.

See it here.

So, what does this say about gender? Obviously, we wouldn't call it sexism, so, what kind of power matrix is involved in creating ever stricter hierarchies of body types, for both men and women?

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