Male body dysmorphia has rocketed – maybe because we’re desperate to assert a sense of control over our chaotic lives, says freelance writer Tom Usher
Male body dysmorphia has rocketed – maybe because we’re desperate to assert a sense of control over our chaotic livesooking back, it was probably when I started checking how many grams of carbohydrates were in red onions and broccoli that my eating disorder began. I say “eating disorder” now, but, of course, as a man, I didn’t think of it as that at the time. It was just “cutting weight”.
She was, of course, entirely right, as mums invariably end up being. A man brow-furrowing over the nutritional value of a bag of onions under the unholy hum of Tesco Express fluorescent lighting might, to some, hint at a sense of control. He is only concerned about what exactly he is putting into his body, after all.
Growing up as a generic cis-het man in the 90s and early 2000s, I only understood concepts such as body dysmorphia and eating disorders through the prism of women’s magazines such as Heat or Cosmopolitan. And I only read them because my sister or girlfriend left them around .
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