Looking good?
It’s long been accepted that the media puts too much pressure on teenage girls to look good – or, more precisely, to be thin. It’s even been discussed at great length in serious newspapers, whole documentaries have been devoted to the subject and lots of organisations set up to provide help and support to those girls who feel they may be struggling with an eating disorder.
While it is, of course, fantastic that these steps have been taken, I do think that the same media who condemn movie star and singers for making teenage girls want to be skinny have completely missed one very important fact; teenage boys are also falling victim to eating disorders and are feeling the pressure to look a certain way.
I can see why this has slipped past a lot of us. After all, it wasn’t long ago that you had to drag teenage boys kicking and screaming into the bathroom. That’s all changed now. My little brother has at least two showers a day and sprays himself with so much deodorant that you have to seal the bathroom off after he’s used it for the safety of everyone else in the house.
He nagged my Mum so much that she eventually signed the parental permission form to let him join the adult gym round the corner from our house. She doesn’t see any harm in it, and I suppose it’s good that he wants to stay fit. I just worry that he’s going to be exposed to even more pressure to look a certain way in that environment. And also exposed to things like protein powder, and even steroids, that some of these muscle-bound guys use so that they can achieve and maintain that perfect physique that my wee brother craves.
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