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With a decisive pop of my white polo shirt (worn under a pink cable-knit, natch), I set about deconstructing the phenomenon of ribbon belts and pastels, old boy style in a modern context. I was mildly amused at the prospect of drawing social commentary from fashion trends...
...first book devoted to male body image issues, The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession, was published only four years ago. The book’s authors coined the term “The Adonis Complex” to encompass the widespread phenomenon of compulsive male body maintenance behavior, which ranges from muscle dysmorphic disorder (an obsessive desire to get bigger) to anorexia, bulimia and steroid abuse...
...can’t be a conservative Republican; you’re not heartless!” a friend recently said to me. This off-handed and not entirely serious comment highlighted a very real cultural phenomenon at Harvard: the monolithic way in which students in the liberal tree house often view conservatives. That is, all too frequently Harvard students forget that conservatives are actually people, not faceless supporters of the “vast right wing conspiracy,” nefarious Fox News contributors or simply bigots...
...first book devoted to male body image issues, The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession, was published only four years ago. The book’s authors coined the term “The Adonis Complex” to encompass the widespread phenomenon of compulsive male body maintenance behavior, which ranges from muscle dysmorphic disorder (an obsessive desire to get bigger) to anorexia, bulimia and steroid abuse...
...kind of phenomenon that non-Americans either laugh at or are baffled by. The rise of a steroid-munching, big-grinned, Austrian body builder into Hollywood stardom and then the governorship of the most populous state in the U.S. is an only-in-America story. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't even born here. But he is as big a political and cultural presence as anyone...