him. Leaving him no choice but to embrace them!Now I’m all for the body positivity movement, but I don’t think vague, feel-good axioms are enough to help queer men struggling with body image issues.
Screaming, “I’m beautiful and worthy of love” from the highest rooftop isn’t going to change diddly-squat.We’re simply too embedded in the gay beauty culture.
A culture that idolizes a certain bodily aesthetic: white, masculine, muscles, and so on. It teaches us that our value as a person (or at least a lot of it) is derived from how we look.