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When Help Is Harm: Health, Lookism and Self‐Improvement in the Manosphere
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11896937/
Our findings first demonstrate how users apply a hegemonic masculine gaze as they critique men's bodies (e.g., facial asymmetries and brow ridges). Second, we show how the community encourages men to substantially alter their bodies (e.g., with leg lengthening surgeries or by mewing).
Lul
Singled out Browridges and bringing up mewing and LL (barely anyone will find a surgeon for it anyways)
To demonstrate how this gaze works, we first summarise a rating thread. In this thread, User 1 asks to be rated and uploads four photos showing his side, front and three‐quarter profiles. Some users state that he is average‐looking, has ‘great potential’ or is slightly above average. Others critique his appearance, stating only ‘[his] eyes save [him] from being a turbosubhuman’, ‘[his] bone development brutally failed’ and ‘he has no mandible’. Some users rate him out of 10, suggesting scores of 1, 1.5, 5 or 6. Responding to his ratings, User 1 agrees that his ‘side profile sucks’ because of his ‘downwarded [sic] grown maxilla’ and suggests he might pursue surgery.
Turbosubhuman Scores of 6
Here, User 13 tells another member that being a Chad is out of reach, but to have any hope of being a man or ‘normal’ at all, he must pursue medical interventions. Likewise, User 1, who we introduced above, states in his rating thread that he needs ‘too many’ surgeries to ‘actually ascend’, including ‘rhino[plasty] surgery to correct his perceived ‘gyno’ (i.e., gynaecomastia)
Not a shot
We argue that users subject themselves to this hegemonic masculine gaze for four reasons. First, users are s
eeking advice for how to become more sexually desirable, to increase their number of sexual partners, or to ‘get a girlfriend’ and participate in heterosexual sex
(e.g., because ‘girls only want to fuck Chads’).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11896937/
Our findings first demonstrate how users apply a hegemonic masculine gaze as they critique men's bodies (e.g., facial asymmetries and brow ridges). Second, we show how the community encourages men to substantially alter their bodies (e.g., with leg lengthening surgeries or by mewing).
Lul
Singled out Browridges and bringing up mewing and LL (barely anyone will find a surgeon for it anyways)
To demonstrate how this gaze works, we first summarise a rating thread. In this thread, User 1 asks to be rated and uploads four photos showing his side, front and three‐quarter profiles. Some users state that he is average‐looking, has ‘great potential’ or is slightly above average. Others critique his appearance, stating only ‘[his] eyes save [him] from being a turbosubhuman’, ‘[his] bone development brutally failed’ and ‘he has no mandible’. Some users rate him out of 10, suggesting scores of 1, 1.5, 5 or 6. Responding to his ratings, User 1 agrees that his ‘side profile sucks’ because of his ‘downwarded [sic] grown maxilla’ and suggests he might pursue surgery.
Turbosubhuman
Scores of 6 Here, User 13 tells another member that being a Chad is out of reach, but to have any hope of being a man or ‘normal’ at all, he must pursue medical interventions. Likewise, User 1, who we introduced above, states in his rating thread that he needs ‘too many’ surgeries to ‘actually ascend’, including ‘rhino[plasty] surgery to correct his perceived ‘gyno’ (i.e., gynaecomastia)
Not a shot
We argue that users subject themselves to this hegemonic masculine gaze for four reasons. First, users are s
eeking advice for how to become more sexually desirable, to increase their number of sexual partners, or to ‘get a girlfriend’ and participate in heterosexual sex
(e.g., because ‘girls only want to fuck Chads’).
