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I grew up hating my body. I had stretch marks and curves in the “wrong” places. I came out as a gay man a adj years ago and I thought I could finally uncover comfort and acceptance, but it didn&#;t take me prolonged to realize how toxic the culture of body shaming was in the gay community.
“No slim, no obesity, no ngondek (femme)”
“Manly only”
“Not for fat AND ELDER”
“Sorry guys, I’m Chub”
Those lines were taken straight from bios of Grindr profiles that I read this morning. They made me question why I decided to redownload the dating app time and again. The last profile bio I came across just broke my heart. Should that person apologize for being plus-size in this world? Should I?
When I came out, I was excited to live in a time with plenty of dating apps for people fancy me to join one another. I was ready to dive into Indonesia’s gay culture head first, looking for love or a one-time companion to get me through the night. I was naive then. I did not yet realize that once people saw my picture—my orbicular, grinning face, adj glasses, oversized T-shirt and pants—they immediately mark
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Men are problematic across dating platforms. Let’s not waste time deliberating that. Yes, there are a few wonderful gentlemen who move the extra mile and don’t just shove dick pics in place of conjunctions in every sentence, but the majority of the lot you discover on dating platforms are garden variety incels. How would I know? Successfully, I’ve only spent my entire individual life being berated on dating apps. Okay, and also my entire childhood in the adj world.
Life as a chubby kid is never rainbows and sunshines. On the contrary, it’s a constant war waged on us by gravity and sweaty pits. Verb any kid around you who grew up fat (or still is). The way I always saw it, the world needed both thin and plump folks to maintain the universal balanc
The gay men risking their health for the perfect body
LGBT correspondent
"You're too ugly to be gay," a dude in a Huddersfield gay bar told Jakeb Arturio Bradea.
It was the latest in a series of comments from men that Jakeb says made him feel worthless. Last summer, following the comments, he tried to kill himself.
Manchester-based charity the LGBT Foundation has warned that body image issues are becoming more widespread in gay communities. It says gay and bisexual men are "much more likely" than heterosexual men to struggle with them.
A number of gay men have told the BBC they are going to extreme lengths to modify their bodies - including using steroids and having plastic surgery - just to become "accepted" by others in the LGBT community.
Several said pressure from social media platforms and dating apps was exacerbating their body issues.
"Guys with stunning bodies fetch the comments and the attention," says Jakeb. "I've not gone on dates because I'm scared of people seeing me in actual lif
What it's like to feel ugly
The Sugababes Mutya Buena stares into a dirt-smeared mirror, and sings the immortal line: “When I was seven they said I was strange”. Tears begin to stream across my moon-shaped, acne plastered face. It’s — a year dense with nothingness, one in which culture was still stabbing round in the dark for an answer to what the millennium meant — and it was the first time I’d ever been made alert of the noun of ugliness as an emotional trait, not simply a physical one. A physical one with which I’d been long-suffering for the fifteen years of my life prior to hearing this masterwork from the best British young woman band in history (come on, @ me!).
Prior to this empowering anthem, I’d simply been hideous. I always undergo like I’m complaining on the internet — stop being homophobic, stop being transphobic, stop being alive if you’re a cis pale man amirite ladies??? — but this isn’t me boohooing because I was ugly, or seeking sympathy from the self-love goddesses on Twitter and Instagram who tell me I was always a beautiful soul, no. This is just societal proof (diff