Echoing Bay, I challenge this hoary myth and your sugary, societal views. *sigh* It's sad and unfortunate to hear them being parroted by a woman. I'll be brief and explain: the pressures women feel to change themselves come mostly from women themselves, not men. Sure, guys like big tits and asses - all the things that suggest fertility and high estrogen levels for breeding, etc - but at the end of the day we are pretty simple creatures who settle for the average girl. No fuss; no muss. Men don't buy the magazines that tell us to conform; we don't stab each other in the back if we are the 'fat' guy; and we don't have an inventory of each other's shortcomings to be used to sabotage other's efforts. These three examples, and there are many more, are all but truisms, so refuting them would be hard. I think it was Ava Gardner who was quoted as saying she dressed for other women, but undressed for men. I think that is about as succinct as one can say it, and it still holds true.
/educate yourself, or be honest with yourself: either one: your choice, but make a choice
Don’t we? We may not buy Seventeen, Cosmo, or Vogue, but we do buy, read, or skin, FLEX, MD, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and all the rest. You don’t have to see those magazines to be influenced. Just go to the movies, watch TV, even cartoons, buy an action figure. The GI Joe sold today is much more muscular than the one sold 30 years ago. At every age, men get the message loud and clear: get big!
Men are not immune to feelings of insecurity and the pressure to look good. 95% of guys at the gym popping pills and taking injections are not professional bodybuilders nor do they want to be.
I have seen different guys with pec implants, calf implants, butt implants, bicep implants and ab sculpting. I once saw a guy that had ALL of these procedures and surprisingly (at the time) he look amazing!
From nose jobs to gyno, cosmetic surgery among men is steeply on the rise.