Boys are treated differently from girls from the start of their birth. ... Boys are not allowed to play with dolls or to play "girls" games. ... At their teenage years, majority of males learn to become competitive, strong, and aggressive. ... For instance, in the Columbine shooting, the two teenage boys were only getting back at the other kids for picking on them. Our society has a set image in its mind of the "ideal image." ...
Men are never expected to eat less in order not to gain weight. ... Nowadays, especially in the United States, where the obesity and weight control is a controversial issue within the females specifically, it is easy for teenage girls and even adult women to get obsessed with the perfect image of women shown in the mainstream media and put huge amount of work and effort to reach to that perfection, or at least get close to that. ... She was 16 years old when she started to think of losing weight. At first, I thought that it was normal for a teenage girl to start working out, eating health...
