Body Image Advertising: Men Don't Like It Either..

Womens' self-esteems are under attack daily. Magazines, music videos, celebrities and famous people alike, all conveying messages of "if you don't look perfect like me, something is wrong with you.."

This mentality is an advertisers DREAM, because too many people fall for said illusion and spend big money attempting to fit in and be perfect looking. Every once and a while however, some sheep do wake up. They do see the images of perfection as the unrealistic projections that they are, and are able to detach and just be ordinary.

Which unlike airbrushing, is normal. 

Women are often targeted because as we women know, our value is often judged by our looks. In this photo series, a group of MEN are showing everyone how unrealistic male underwear ads are, and how the "average guy" would look in the same scenarios.

It's no fun to be sublimally bullied because you don't fit the contrived image of what beauty is supposed to be. It's nice to know that men, ever the oglers themselves, don't like to be painted as asthetic underachievers either.

Just let us live. As we are. 

Photoshop was not created by Maybelline so um... #fuckoff

Funny Photo Series Shows How Ordinary Men Would Look In Underwear Ads

By Thia Shi Min, 01 Oct 2013

Dolce & Gabbana


There has been a lot of criticism directed at underwear ads as many of them feature women with perfect bodies. A lesser known problem is that men can feel just as insecure about their bodies.


To highlight this problem, Jenny Francis and The Sun have created underwear poster ads that show how ordinary men look like in them.

From Armani to H&M, these side-by-side comparisons reveal how the media has distorted our perception of how male bodies should be like.

View this thought-provoking series below.


H&M 


Armani 


Calvin Klein 



Way to go men. Be the regular, out of shape, non-tattooed, non-hunks that you are. 

Being comfortable in your skin is sexier than you may ever realize. Muah!

-WTS.

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