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Question by Synthetic drug research: Are male bodies held to a higher standard?
-Women can be short or tall, somewhat muscular (hard for woman to get buff anyway) or ‘skinnyfat’, a little bit tubby or skinny with little breasts and curves to share and men will love them. Just look at all the actresses and models that have ‘boyish’ bodies with the natural born female hip structure that men hold as sex symbols.

Not so for men. While for a woman it is enough that she does not overeat and get fat, a man has to pump iron and eat a lot (overeat) to gain muscle to get the masculine, brawny look. The heavy lifting often leads to permanent injuries to the back and extremities and the food consumption required leads to fat gain. The fat gain requires a fat cutting diet which is carried out carefully so as to preserve as much muscle as possible. Muscle loss when dieting is practically inevitable or at least very hard to prevent to a larger or lesser extent.

If a man is short, he is at a severe disadvantage in the eyes of many women. A man of average height is found suboptimal by many women of above average height or even shorter women. A woman’s femininity is not compromised by her exhibiting ‘masculine’ height. Instead, her height is now used as the measuring stick that men must live up to although she herself is the exception.

Finally there is the issue of the genital area. It appears a lot of women have a desire for a larger than average penis and many women openly ridicule male members they deem defective. Women’s genitals are rarely scrutinized equally harshly. A consequence of the bodybuilding mentioned above is that the resulting fat gain will obscure the penis to some extent and make it appear smaller. Bigger muscles may also create the impression of lesser penile size.
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Indeed, it appears somewhat unfair for women to judge men’s genitals unless they present some kind of an equivalent of their own open to judging. But rarely is this suggested.
Women sometimes argue that breast size could be a similar issue for women but this is negated by the fact that a lot of men adore female athletes who have very low body fat (small breasts) and the fact that many female sex symbols as well as women routinely appearing in men’s erotica are small chested. It’s just not the same thing. Not the same intimacy, not the same importance.
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Women’s privacy from peeking etc. is often enforced harder than men’s with women going into men’s bathrooms tolerated more than the other way around for example, although men’s privates are more out in the open than women’s which makes nudity a more sensitive issue for men because of the demands and possible ridicule resulting from being caught in the nude or with genitals exposed.
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Women’s chests have also been sort of artificially heightened to sacred status while men’s are not. A man must treat going topless as no big deal and touching a man’s chest without his consent is not considered as much of a violation as touching a woman’s chest although men also have at least rudimentary breasts and plenty of muscle to make up for it. It is this sexualization and mystification of the breasts that has almost granted them the status of sex organs and arguably rendered women a greater aura of sexuality and mystery while men’s bodies with the exception of parts waist down are treated as ordinary and asexual.

Men’s genitals are also occasionally (if not frequently) ridiculed on the basis of perceived vulnerability. Women’s bodies (or genitals) are rarely if ever ridiculed for their overall softness and vulnerability. Instead, men and women both celebrate women’s natural untrained physique as a work of art and grace. All this stems somewhat from the fact that men are judged on a more or less utilitarian or action oriented basis and so people dig ‘flaws’ out of men’s bodies while sparing women’s.

As for athletism, it is often said that “men are stronger on average” and “women are more flexible on average”.
Truth being that there is not a corresponding muscle in a woman’s body that would be as strong as a man’s yet there are studies indicating that men may be equally or even more flexible than women in some joints and/or ranges of motion. The world’s greatest male contortionists can surely bend like any woman, at least in many of the major joints of the body but the world’s strongest women cannot rival men in any type of strength event so these beloved sayings do not make justice to men.
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Yet despite this, graceful athletism or sports are often reserved for women or men are stigmatized for engaging in them, such as rhytmic gymnastics or ballet. There’s also talk about how men dancing look silly but women somehow don’t.

Women can get away with claiming that they find male bodies to be unsightly and women ‘sexy’ despite claiming to be straight. A man doing the equivalent (adoring the male) would get tagged gay fairly soon.

Vague justifications for men’s alleged inferiority range from things such as hairiness (as if hair cannot be eliminated; women d

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Answer by NewDreams
i think that women’s bodies are held to a higher standard than men’s – consider mid life and older females. We are invisible no matter how beautiful we are.

In addition, most women don’t care for really muscular men. that is for other guys to care about. same thing for your ‘organ size’ concerns. Only other MEN care about such a thing – unless it’s too large then I don’t want it. these issues are fantasies that men have – they think that women want this stuff and actually it is only other MEN who notice being ‘buff’ or being ‘endowed’.

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Question by Animal seeking kindness: Are male bodies held to a higher standard?
-Women can be short or tall, somewhat muscular (hard for woman to get buff anyway) or ‘skinnyfat’, a little bit tubby or skinny with little breasts and curves to share and men will love them. Just look at all the actresses and models that have ‘boyish’ bodies with the natural born female hip structure that men hold as sex symbols.

Not so for men. While for a woman it is enough that she does not overeat and get fat, a man has to pump iron and eat a lot (overeat) to gain muscle to get the masculine, brawny look. The heavy lifting often leads to permanent injuries to the back and extremities and the food consumption required leads to fat gain. The fat gain requires a fat cutting diet which is carried out carefully so as to preserve as much muscle as possible. Muscle loss when dieting is practically inevitable or at least very hard to prevent to a larger or lesser extent.

If a man is short, he is at a severe disadvantage in the eyes of many women. A man of average height is found suboptimal by many women of above average height or even shorter women. A woman’s femininity is not compromised by her exhibiting ‘masculine’ height. Instead, her height is now used as the measuring stick that men must live up to although she herself is the exception.

Finally there is the issue of the genital area. It appears a lot of women have a desire for a larger than average penis and many women openly ridicule male members they deem defective. Women’s genitals are rarely scrutinized equally harshly. A consequence of the bodybuilding mentioned above is that the resulting fat gain will obscure the penis to some extent and make it appear smaller. Bigger muscles may also create the impression of lesser penile size.
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Indeed, it appears somewhat unfair for women to judge men’s genitals unless they present some kind of an equivalent of their own open to judging. But rarely is this suggested.
Women sometimes argue that breast size could be a similar issue for women but this is negated by the fact that a lot of men adore female athletes who have very low body fat (small breasts) and the fact that many female sex symbols as well as women routinely appearing in men’s erotica are small chested. It’s just not the same thing. Not the same intimacy, not the same importance.
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Women’s privacy from peeking etc. is often enforced harder than men’s with women going into men’s bathrooms tolerated more than the other way around for example, although men’s privates are more out in the open than women’s which makes nudity a more sensitive issue for men because of the demands and possible ridicule resulting from being caught in the nude or with genitals exposed.
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Women’s chests have also been sort of artificially heightened to sacred status while men’s are not. A man must treat going topless as no big deal and touching a man’s chest without his consent is not considered as much of a violation as touching a woman’s chest although men also have at least rudimentary breasts and plenty of muscle to make up for it. It is this sexualization and mystification of the breasts that has almost granted them the status of sex organs and arguably rendered women a greater aura of sexuality and mystery while men’s bodies with the exception of parts waist down are treated as ordinary and asexual.

Men’s genitals are also occasionally (if not frequently) ridiculed on the basis of perceived vulnerability. Women’s bodies (or genitals) are rarely if ever ridiculed for their overall softness and vulnerability. Instead, men and women both celebrate women’s natural untrained physique as a work of art and grace. All this stems somewhat from the fact that men are judged on a more or less utilitarian or action oriented basis and so people dig ‘flaws’ out of men’s bodies while sparing women’s.

As for athletism, it is often said that “men are stronger on average” and “women are more flexible on average”.
Truth being that there is not a corresponding muscle in a woman’s body that would be as strong as a man’s yet there are studies indicating that men may be equally or even more flexible than women in some joints and/or ranges of motion. The world’s greatest male contortionists can surely bend like any woman, at least in many of the major joints of the body but the world’s strongest women cannot rival men in any type of strength event so these beloved sayings do not make justice to men.
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Yet despite this, graceful athletism or sports are often reserved for women or men are stigmatized for engaging in them, such as rhytmic gymnastics or ballet. There’s also talk about how men dancing look silly but women somehow don’t.

Women can get away with claiming that they find male bodies to be unsightly and women ‘sexy’ despite claiming to be straight. A man doing the equivalent (adoring the male) would get tagged gay fairly soon.

Vague justifications for men’s alleged inferiority range from things such as hairiness (as if hair cannot be eliminated; women d
Whitney O@ well your a hoe & you have a Wide Vagina! ;D

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Answer by Ali
You’ve thought about this waaaay too much lol

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