Sexy pictures... what makes you think your chubby?
Throughout the duration of my coming out, I heard many body negative accounts from people within the gay community about me; each case resulted in some type of personal bodily harm. Things like your To hairy, to short, to this to that etc.
It wasn’t until I heard the phrase “I’m straight thin, but gay fat” on an episode of
American Dad! that I started to understand this nonsensical issue. There’s an unobtainable body image standard within the gay community and it is confusing me and a lot of other kids today.
But the tragic actuality is we do live in an artificial, skin-deep society. For many, when they hear the term “gay male”, they associate it with the stereotypical image of an abdominal-obsessed, beautiful faced, blonde man wearing an extremely tight t-shirt overly highlighting his pecs and guns. Dare I say, Google Image the phrase and see what appears. (I took the burden off your shoulder: it’s exactly what I just described with a lot less clothing.)
Reinforcing this picturesque bod at Chicago’s 2014 Pride, a float sponsored by Chicago Liposuction marched illicitly body-shaming overweight men with derogatory signs that read “Say NO to man boobs” and “Don’t love your love handles.”
Thousands of attendees cheered on–whether consciously or otherwise–these signs, which are beyond detrimental to one’s confidence and only continue to promote the idea of the gay male body archetype.
When I see these signs, as a gay young man, I feel inadequate. As if the jiggle on my chest defines me as ugly... and the skin overlapping my jeans categorizes me as un-fuckable...
Consciously i know its BS , but in many minds, it does mean that.
Sorry for the long reply, and getting a bit off topic
[/QUOTE]
Sexy pictures... what makes you think your chubby?