You aren’t feminist enough for me, this website, or this world.

“the OP had a sad story and I do feel for him...”

Uh, if I had started a thread like that, I would have been IMMEDIATELY flooded with comments such as “OMG! What about the menz...”

Yeah, I’m not special for having negative body image as a child.

In this thread, people are pretty much on my team, or the original poster’s. My “teammates” are demonstrably more eloquent than the other “team.” The other team pretty much just make a bunch of snippy, uncompelling comments of little substance. Yours is a good example. So, no. Nobody is convincing me of anything,…

Fine, I’m a statistical anomaly. Or my parents were negligent. Either way, pretty callous of you to disregard my childhood negative body image.

Um, I think that all the men in this conversation have agreed that “women have it worse.” We have all explicitly stated as much.

Yeah, I should have discussed this in my first comment here. I might have saved myself a bit of trouble.

Ortiz is 40 and fat, but most US 40 year olds are fat. Can Ortiz outrun the average US 40 year old? Probably. How about the average US 25 year old? I say, Ortiz loses.

Yeah, I can definitely understand that.

Is that true for a magazine aimed at boys aged 8-12? Unfortunately, maybe you are right. I am 32 now and not in tune with the media consumed by children.

Yeah, I’ll admit that I never understood why other guys would wear underwear under their trunks.

Ah thanks. And, I suppose, truly “not all women” experience street harrassment.

Thank you. Yeah, it is good that you realized that for men, being skinny is not as appealing as it is for women.

Thank you. As I wrote earlier, I think that “Not all men, yes all women,” applies to a wide variety of gender issues.

Someone wrote, “Wear whatever you want, you’re a damn (male) kid, no one cares.” Which I think is a particularly tone deaf comment on male body image. If my comment was a stand-alone comment I independently made, I could see your point, but it wasn’t, so I don’t.

1. Comparing and Contrasting: I am so not into comparing and contrasting. If you want to do that regarding body image, then I suppose white women should keep their privileged mouths shut in favor of women of color. I don’t agree with that at all. How about diseases? Cancer, diabetes, AIDS, Alzheimer’s, Acne. Can I…

I most certainly do “see the differences on the pressures that society places on us versus the pressures that society places on our sisters.” I just see no need to compare and contrast. I think there is a time to discuss women’s issues and a time to discuss men’s issues. You brought up men’s issues, and I offered my…

South Korea was ever a part of the British Empire? I was really skeptical of that, so I went to wikipedia, “History of South Korea,” and found nada after a search for “British,” and “Commonwealthy.”

I’m wondering why would LEGO be interested in this content? Perhaps this was a misguided attempt to get girls more interested in LEGO?