Canadian university hosting a lecture about .org

[GunDevilHybrid]

When help is harm: Masculinity, self-improvement, and health in the looksmaxxing community – CSA@Congress

How does hegemonic masculinity harm men’s health? In this paper, we focus on Looksmax.org, an online community for men who are seeking to improve their appearance or become more attractive to potential partners. Looksmax.org hosts ratings threads, wherein users can post their pictures and have their physical attractiveness “objectively” rated by other members. In other parts of the community, users share tips for “looksmaxxing” (improving physical attractiveness), discuss body alterations (e.g., leg lengthening surgery), and exchange seduction tips. In this community, physical attractiveness is of the utmost importance because it is seen as the biggest determining factor for whether or not a man is single. For this paper, we qualitatively analyzed 8,072 comments posted to Looksmax.org. Our analyses focused on the most popular threads during a 6-month period of data collection that occurred in 2023. Our analysis was guided by analytic abduction. We present our findings in three themes. First, we demonstrate how users of Looksmax.org see physical attractiveness as something that can be quantifiable and objectively measured, which we refer to as a “quantifying gaze.” In this section, we show the extreme precision and nuance that men apply when assessing one another’s bodies in relation to hegemonic ideals. For example, users rate each other on a 10-point scale, deducting full and partial points for minor facial asymmetries, pronounced brow ridges, nose sizes, or uneven ratios between the size of the chin and the upper lip. Second, we show how the Looksmax community encourages users to seek substantial alterations to their bodies so that they can better conform to masculine ideals. For instance, shorter men are encouraged to undergo expensive and painful leg lengthening surgeries, while men with large noses are told to get rhinoplasties. In addition to these surgeries, users suggest a number of body altering practices. For example, some users practice “mewing,” which is pushing the tongue to the roof of the mouth in an effort to develop a more masculine jawline. As we argue, users’ quantitative assessments of masculine bodies are tightly coupled to these interventions, as such interventions are seen as the best means to “objectively” improve one’s appearance. Third, despite situating itself as a forum for self- improvement, we argue that the Looksmax community demoralizes its users. By demoralize, we mean that users learn that they are inadequate as part of their participation in the community. We document many examples of users discussing self-harm because they believe that their appearance made them permanently unattractive, while also detailing users who encourage others to self-harm. We discuss how these findings demonstrate the negative health consequences of hegemonic masculinity for men, and how some online masculine ‘support’ spaces demoralize and harm men.

This paper will be presented at the following session:​

• (HEA1b) Sociology of Medicine, Health, and Illness II: Gender and Health
  Wednesday Jun 19 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
  Trottier Building - ENGTR 2110

 

[noodlelover]

Black pill is main stream.

Face Smashing, Steroid Use, and Surgery will probably be as common as Gym in the future. All to chase women that will continue to become more and more obese.

JFL, at the paper's implication that blue pilled false hope for less attractive women saves lives. A lifetime of rejection is painful for men, we deserve to know why instead of living in pain and confusion. If we choose to kill ourselves, that's our own fucking choice.

 

[GunDevilHybrid]

Black pill is main stream.

Face Smashing, Steroid Use, and Surgery will probably be as common as Gym in the future. All to chase women that will continue to become more and more obese.

JFL, at the paper's implication that blue pilled false hope for less attractive women saves lives. A lifetime of rejection is painful for men, we deserve to know why instead of living in pain and confusion. If we choose to kill ourselves, that's our own fucking choice.

I mean tbh what did you expect a bunch of faggy cucked Canuck sociologists to say

I agree tho shit is fucked

 

[shizuku11111]

wish i could attend ngl

 

[RichardSpencel]

wish i could attend ngl

Same,to go ER right?

 

[shizuku11111]

Same,to go ER right?

kys retard

 

[noodlelover]

I mean tbh what did you expect a bunch of faggy cucked Canuck sociologists to say

This is the presenter of the paper.

Woman in white is another non-presenting researcher.

They read through thousands of posts on looksmax.org last year. She is probably his crush but she only wants HTN's and above. So he is sad. Sad Researcher. Such is life. Want Love & Sex. Can't get Love & Sex.

Oh and here's the third researcher. I forgot him.

I think he looks maxed and lost some weight after this project.

Good for him.

 

[Whatever]

Jfl at these nerds, we’re the real sociologists. LMS is the new class struggle.

For this paper, we qualitatively analyzed 8,072 comments posted to Looksmax.org.

Jfl at them “qualitatively analyzing” 8,072 comments worth of BBC, rope, mog, and curry.

 

[incelmogger]

What a shitty analysis, no mention of ped’s or other expensive products

 

[Ryan]

kys retard

thats why i dont like tiktokcels,they are such moral faggots
just kys normie

 

[incelmogger]

Jfl at these nerds, we’re the real sociologists. LMS is the new class struggle.



Jfl at them “qualitatively analyzing” 8,072 comments worth of BBC, rope, mog, and curry.

Yeah you know it’s not a real analysis when there’s not one mention of using the word nigger or faggot

 

[incelmogger]

kys retard

 

[noodlelover]

Jfl at these nerds, we’re the real sociologists.

Sociology is flawed because you can't publish the truth, you have to publish findings that adhere to the moral hegemony.

You also can't reason meaningfully about humans from "studies" or "surveys", or in general reason about humans without filtering that data through pre-built cognitive models of how humans work, which requires you to have deep relationships with many different people. You have to be social.

Otherwise you WILL draw the wrong conclusions. The truth is, women lie on surveys, people act differently under experimental conditions, Low Social Skills researchers measure the wrong variables in the rare cases they construct experiments in the wild, and add the wrong controls, and a huge amount of research is just straight up fabricated.

 

[Patient A]

Built for BBC

 

[Patient A]

(HEA1b) Sociology of Medicine, Health, and Illness II: Gender and Health
Wednesday Jun 19 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 2110​

I clicked this link and after I read the article, the article below this one on the same page started talking about

Nigger BBC AIDS in France

Funny how a public talk about this forum is bundled in with another talk about nigger BBC AIDS

Comical Poetry

 

[copemaxxeer]

I think he looks maxed and lost some weight after this project.

Good for him.

Still looks like a balding baby with a beard

 

[chudlite]

When help is harm: Masculinity, self-improvement, and health in the looksmaxxing community – CSA@Congress

How does hegemonic masculinity harm men’s health? In this paper, we focus on Looksmax.org, an online community for men who are seeking to improve their appearance or become more attractive to potential partners. Looksmax.org hosts ratings threads, wherein users can post their pictures and have their physical attractiveness “objectively” rated by other members. In other parts of the community, users share tips for “looksmaxxing” (improving physical attractiveness), discuss body alterations (e.g., leg lengthening surgery), and exchange seduction tips. In this community, physical attractiveness is of the utmost importance because it is seen as the biggest determining factor for whether or not a man is single. For this paper, we qualitatively analyzed 8,072 comments posted to Looksmax.org. Our analyses focused on the most popular threads during a 6-month period of data collection that occurred in 2023. Our analysis was guided by analytic abduction. We present our findings in three themes. First, we demonstrate how users of Looksmax.org see physical attractiveness as something that can be quantifiable and objectively measured, which we refer to as a “quantifying gaze.” In this section, we show the extreme precision and nuance that men apply when assessing one another’s bodies in relation to hegemonic ideals. For example, users rate each other on a 10-point scale, deducting full and partial points for minor facial asymmetries, pronounced brow ridges, nose sizes, or uneven ratios between the size of the chin and the upper lip. Second, we show how the Looksmax community encourages users to seek substantial alterations to their bodies so that they can better conform to masculine ideals. For instance, shorter men are encouraged to undergo expensive and painful leg lengthening surgeries, while men with large noses are told to get rhinoplasties. In addition to these surgeries, users suggest a number of body altering practices. For example, some users practice “mewing,” which is pushing the tongue to the roof of the mouth in an effort to develop a more masculine jawline. As we argue, users’ quantitative assessments of masculine bodies are tightly coupled to these interventions, as such interventions are seen as the best means to “objectively” improve one’s appearance. Third, despite situating itself as a forum for self- improvement, we argue that the Looksmax community demoralizes its users. By demoralize, we mean that users learn that they are inadequate as part of their participation in the community. We document many examples of users discussing self-harm because they believe that their appearance made them permanently unattractive, while also detailing users who encourage others to self-harm. We discuss how these findings demonstrate the negative health consequences of hegemonic masculinity for men, and how some online masculine ‘support’ spaces demoralize and harm men.

This paper will be presented at the following session:​

• (HEA1b) Sociology of Medicine, Health, and Illness II: Gender and Health
  Wednesday Jun 19 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
  Trottier Building - ENGTR 2110

couldnt be that indepth if they didnt mention lefort and only mentioned LLS which is a normie surgery most people know about

 

[HumidVent]

Do they take everything at face value or do they use critical thinking when it comes to posts on here that are just edgy self deprecating jokes and hyperbole?

 

[perpetuallytired]

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