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Hello, I liked your discussion about the negative body impressions the average man will have on their own outlook because of the way media has shaped men. Similar to the discussion regarding unachievable female body standards, in order to achieve the ideal masculine body, men are expected to, as you mentioned, exercise, diet and push themselves into unhealthy lifestyles simply just to develop that kind of body. In your introduction, you mentioned that "The desire to be more muscular stems from numerous motives such as the feeling of being more attractive to women, feeling stronger, feeling more confident and feeling healthier." However, I think you could go deeper into the analysis of body building and discuss men's desire to 'work out' as a way of conforming to traits of hegemonic masculinity and their fear of deviating and being considered too feminine. It would be interesting for you to delve into the discussion of men who don't comply to these traits and what the outlook on them is like in a society where muscles define masculinity.