Below is an overlong effort-post on the baleful effects on body-image, wallet, and society of being repeatedly exposed to unrealistic images; I work up the male side more, but offer a thesis, grounded in predictive coding, on both. Please cmt b/c I can't decide if it's malarkey:https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1015457098635907072 …
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1/Well, presume (plausibly) the horror response (which might just be a stressor which can have numerous attributions) is subject to varying responses by the population, from repulsion, to indifference, to pure enjoyment (on which cf. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886915300374 …). Those who enjoyed
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3/assumptions, in short, there's reason to suspect even an image of human 'perfection' or w/e most fine repulsive at first glance will warp overall standards. {This is not to suggest there are no brakes on the system. There are, and competing forces, and hard bio limits, etc.)
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I was thinking more mass audience - where I think the mechanism of body building is to drag standards toward max - but I’m sure there are subset of guys who watch wrestling or pass muscle mag in aisle and the light goes on.
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2/for the various factors of male phenotypic dominance (or attractiveness, or w/e); I think I gave the example of the difference b/t the cast of The 300 and the cast of a comparable 70's action movie, in terms of physique. (Similar dynamic for facial aesthetics, etc.).
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Yes that’s a good comparison. I was going to say a Hitchcock leading man or prime Clint Eastwood vs now, where even Chris Pratt has to have abs
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In absence of broad participation in labor and sport, the way to satify that need is more often via gym culture, which may then hijack preexisting ideal with gym ideal.
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