(10-20-2015, 03:38 PM)Vyce Wrote: Kindof. Here is a more "normal" standard of beauty circa 2015:
But the bar is further raised when every piece of advertising geared toward you is meant to be superlative. Think of it like how Victoria's Secret advertises, except it's EVERYTHING.
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So a long time ago I joined a guild in WoW called Taint. Â I joined to raid. Â I had no idea what the word meant, other than like, someone was tainted. Â Turns out it has other meanings, but I digress.
I also didn't know as lil' white bread, sheltered Southern girl me that I was joining the largest LBGT guild in WoW. Seriously, they had over 4,000 members. Â Everyone else apparently knew, but I didn't!
It was awesome. Â ^_^
But one of the things I was surprised to discover was how much emphasis is often put on physical appearance in different circles of gay men. Â They even had names for the groups or cliques or whatever. Â The only one I can remember off the top of my head was the "bears." Â Anyway, the groups basically delineated what sort of guy was attractive to the guys in each group. Â I had never heard of this previously, even though I had several gay friends. Â I figure it's kind of like how women don't always discuss the same things in front of guys that they will discuss with other women, etc.
So any way, my point is that there's a huge variance in what is considered "attractive" in every group. Â There was one group, name I can't recall, that wouldn't find the super muscled guys attractive at all, and another group where hyper-masculinity was THE biggest attraction. Â I think that in every brand of sexuality, there are different things that people are attracted to.
The moral of the story is...don't look at fashion magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Â
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