Archive for January 19th, 2007

Image Conscious Males

January 19th, 2007

Today, in SOC 101 we were covering Symbolic Interactionism, and we watched a video on weight-training. It featured four high-school boys, and interviews of what they thought of weight-training, what they think the girls look for in a guy, girls’ perspective of what they look for in a guy, as well as people in the fitness business (trainers, supplement store rep, etc.). It was definitely an interesting video, because when people talk about being image conscious most would automatically think of girls — e.g. how the media portrays beautiful women. I haven’t heard a lot of talk about the pressure guys (especially young men) experience in terms of their weight, and appearance in general.

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