Fashion and mind control.
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I was at the store the other night and saw a guy and his girlfriend shopping the vegetable aisle for supper. He was unbelievably skinny - so skinny I thought he was a girl. Pencil pants, flip-flops, teenie tight t-shirt, hair gelled way up... the girl on the other hand looked fat in comparison - although she was far from fat. It's a trend I began noticing on The Sartorialist - quite awhile ago in fact. The Paris and Milan runways began showing really skinny guys wearing skinny clothes a few years ago. The look is effeminate and unnatural. Even Ralph Lauren is making skinny clothes. I believe it's more about androgyny and genderlessness today, than what initially was about carriage and build. Having gone beyond the old 'metrosexual', the new look is making contemporary men even more femme and imposing upon them limitations otherwise reserved for female consumers - such as over-priced apparel and unnecessary accessories, cosmetics, cosmetic surgeries, uncomfortable-tight-fitting clothing, and so on. And now guys seem to be ending up with women's ailments as well, such as anorexia or manorexia.
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The pressure to look like a male model is driving more men to develop dangerous eating disorders, experts warned today.
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GPs have been warned to be on the lookout for the potentially fatal conditions, which include anorexia and bulimia, after a rise in the number of those affected.
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Men may be reluctant to admit they have a problem as the issue has until now been seen as something affecting mainly teenage girls.
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Medical experts blame the surge on an obsession with looking good by having bulging biceps and a six-pack stomach. - DailyMail
Trend with just a touch of body dysmorphic disorder?
