#physicalappearance — Public Fediverse posts

#GiftLink: "#Finasteride might be the ultimate drug for a generation of young men who have never been more focused on optimizing their #looks — and yet have never been less connected, romantically or socially. #Socialmedia not only feeds men self-improvement content on their phones but also encourages them to curate images of themselves for others to scrutinize.

Psychologists have known for years that women who are especially preoccupied with their #physicalappearance tend to have more difficulty with anxiety and #sexualsatisfaction. “Women have had this kind of thing to deal with for so many years,” said Ryan, one of the friends in Elliot Connors’s group chat. “While it’s awful that this is now happening to men, there is also a kind of a poetic justice to it.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/magazine/male-hair-loss-treatment-finasteride.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aVA.UwR2.PMGlykd_jAF1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Mashable: Who is Clavicular, and why is he everywhere right now?. “Some methods men discuss online to looksmax include going to the gym and ‘mewing,’ or sticking one’s tongue on the roof of his mouth to give the appearance of a sharper jawline. But men have gone to drastic lengths to looksmax. This includes surgery (jaw surgery, leg-lengthening surgery), bonesmashing (using objects like hammers […]