In sixth grade, the same year that puberty hit me with irrevocable force, I had an art teacher, Mr. Blake. (This dates me: few public middle schools have art teachers anymore.) I’ll never forget his solemn declaration that great artists all acknowledged that the female form was more beautiful than the male. He made a passing crack that “no one wants to see naked men, anyway”—and the whole class laughed. “Ewwww,” a girl sitting next to me said, evidently disgusted at the thought of a naked boy. In time, I discovered that Mr. Blake was wrong about this so-called artistic consensus. But it took me a lot longer to unlearn the damage done by remarks like his and by the conventional wisdom of my childhood. I came into puberty convinced both that my male body was repulsive and that the girls for whom I longed were flawless.

Do you all remember hearing that, too? And all the straight girls repeating it, claiming that they like the way all advertisements are filled with naked women because even they think women are prettier to look at than men. Well, fuck that noise. Men are pretty to look at, so let’s keep looking!

Men are dirty and disgusting, women are pure and flawless. Right? — The Good Men Project Magazine (via sexisnottheenemy)
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