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Publish Not your original work? Add source Lena Dirscherl, who is known online as BoPoLena, is an artist and body acceptance activist, and they can perfectly blend the two together. Recently, BoPoLena has been working on an illustration series dedicated to the male body. More specifically, the struggles that come with it-both internal and external. "It seems I've struck a nerve with this message: body positivity is not only for women," BoPoLena said. "No, it's for all genders! Men also suffer [from] diet culture and the pressure to look as 'attractive' as possible. But you all are already beautiful! You are great the way you are! You don't need diets or gyms to be worthy! You are already worthy and loved!" More info: bopolena.com Instagram Patreon This post may include affiliate links. #1 bopolena Report Final score: 75points POST -Stitch- -Stitch- Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago YES.IT.DOES. 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 bopolena Report Final score: 72points POST Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I like this one. The "real man" is a concept, it's not real. 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments BoPoLena started drawing and posting body positive messages every week on Instagram in August 2016. "I realized very quickly that most people assume that body issues, eating disorders and the struggle for acceptance are 'women's issues,'" BoPoLena told Bored Panda. "[But that] is not true at all! However, that might be the reason why the body positive community online is dominated by white able-bodied heterosexual cis women. Which I think is ironic since the whole movement has its origins in the Fat Acceptance Movement which was led by black women and people of color." #3 bopolena Report Final score: 71points POST TheLazyPoki TheLazyPoki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago YES. Men crying is deemed too feminine, and that seriously needs to stop. Crying is just a natural thing that people do, and it isn't okay to just bottle up your emotions to seem more like a man. If anything, people should be more feminine if this is what comes of being masculine. 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 bopolena Report Final score: 71points POST denzoren denzoren Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We don't wear clothes apparently...just drape some tarpaulin and we're good to go. 18 18points reply View more comments BoPoLena isn't the only soldier on the front. In recent years, male celebrities, including Chris Pratt, Ed Sheeran, and Robert Pattinson have been increasingly vocal when it comes to insecurities about their looks. And it's been long overdue. Research by psychiatrists at UCLA shows that overall, people nowadays feel worse about the way they look than they did in the 1970s. The problem concerns not just college guys hitting the gym to try to get a date: around 90 percent of boys in middle and high school exercise at least occasionally with the specific goal of bulking up. It's about time we start speaking about it more. #5 bopolena Report Final score: 70points POST ScarlettofHydraIsland ScarlettofHydraIsland Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And neither are the pictures you see on Instagram. Lighting and angles matter, and also, people (like me) tend to suck in their stomachs. 14 14points reply View more comments #6 bopolena Report Final score: 68points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Completely :) We need to encourage men to not be ashamed of bolding. It is a natural process and one that its nobody's fault. 19 19points reply View More Replies... View more comments As you can see, BoPoLena features a very diverse set of characters in their work. "In each of my series, I focus on a different group that hasn't been represented very well in the BoPo community yet. I did an illustration series on men, on non-binary folx, on intersex people and my next series will be on trans people of all genders." The artist also plans to tackle disabilities and chronic illnesses in the future but they still need to do more research on these topics. "I'm always in close contact with people of the groups that I try to represent in my art in order to amplify their voices." BoPoLena says it's their goal to spread body positivity for all people, in all bodies, so that everyone can feel represented in the movement, and if you ask me, they're doing one heck of a job. #7 bopolena Report Final score: 67points POST -Stitch- -Stitch- Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago :’) 21 21points reply View more comments #8 bopolena Report Final score: 67points POST Xottel Xottel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Well I have always been skinny (not on purpose, I hated it) and this looks like my best school buddy and me 7 7points reply View more comments #9 bopolena Report Final score: 67points POST Ryan Deschanel Ryan Deschanel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) Really? I'm 5'6 / 171cm tall, so why does everybody hate / reject / despise me because of that? 7 7points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 bopolena Report Final score: 65points POST Abhinc Abhinc Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago yes yes yes !!! couldn't agree more. i'm a man myself. i love cooking and gardening. i have absolutely no interest in sports or cars. deal with it !! 43 43points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 bopolena Report Final score: 62points POST Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago A moderate amount of femininity is attractive, to be honest. But tastes vary by individuals anyway, so just try to be comfortable with who you are. If you keep your aesthetics and mannerisms for others, there's always going to be someone who doesn't like you, so not worthy bothering for that. 24 24points reply View more comments #12 bopolena Report Final score: 59points POST Ambar Ambar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago everyone needs emotional support, men need it as much as women! 18 18points reply View more comments #13 bopolena Report Final score: 57points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago I have always been more attracted to men considered short. As a short woman it just makes more sense. 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 bopolena Report Final score: 54points POST Simon Smith Simon Smith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Health issues, its a real problem 1 1point reply View more comments #15 bopolena Report Final score: 54points POST Ambar Ambar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago struggles to me are ok and help you grow. having family issues and need to cry that's ok! having money issues and need to cry that's ok! need to vent that's fine! 10 10points reply #16 bopolena Report Final score: 52points POST Abhinc Abhinc Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago once again yes yes yes !! 41yo man speaking. i do cry. sad or happy i cry when emotions are strong. and there is nothing wrong with that. plus i really don't care what people think about it. let's stop pushing men to be emotionless robots. that toxic masculinity is extremely destructive and has to stop !! 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #17 bopolena Report Final score: 52points POST Valisbourne Spiritforge Valisbourne Spiritforge Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's just genetics, not whatever standard of "manliness" applies to having a beard. 9 9points reply View more comments #18 bopolena Report Final score: 51points POST Josh Tall Josh Tall Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago we have more love to give! 6 6points reply View more comments #19 bopolena Report Final score: 45points POST Bettie-Jean Neal Bettie-Jean Neal Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Reproduction is overrated. 16 16points reply View more comments #20 bopolena Report Final score: 44points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Also most women don't really want a big penis, or at leas the ones I asked about this. We need forplay not a big c**k. 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 bopolena Report Final score: 42points POST L - E - Y, (V.1.O) L - E - Y, (V.1.O) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago He looks amaze 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 bopolena Report Final score: 41points POST Simon Smith Simon Smith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Correct but not fat, health issues will come in 2 2points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 bopolena Report Final score: 39points POST Kitty Luna Darrow Kitty Luna Darrow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago These are so sweet :) 6 6points reply View more comments #24 bopolena Report Final score: 37points POST Simon Smith Simon Smith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Correct 3 3points reply View more comments #25 bopolena Report Final score: 36points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago You should only do it if its to make yourself happier. 18 18points reply View more comments #26 bopolena Report Final score: 36points POST -Stitch- -Stitch- Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Absolutely great. The greatest 11 11points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #27 bopolena Report Final score: 35points POST Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I know this is specifically referring to intersex people, as explicitly stated within the picture. However, I'd really like to point out how someone's voice - whether it's talking or singing - can really be an amazing charming point that can do wonders to a woman/man's psyche. When talking about attraction, the topics tend to put so much focus on the visual parts of the body, and the voice is often overlooked, but it can be such a strong point sometimes. 14 14points reply View more comments #28 bopolena Report Final score: 34points POST Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's also hard to be Ryu 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 bopolena Report Final score: 33points POST Iggy Iggy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Please don't do that. If you want to go, great. If you don't, great. 10 10points reply View more comments #30 bopolena Report Final score: 31points POST -Stitch- -Stitch- Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Cool I will so take that 8 8points reply View more comments Note: this post originally had 58 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes. 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POST Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm so damn glad to see something so affirming and toxicity-battling as this for males: there is a fair amount for women, but very little for men! I'm bookmarking this for my son 26 26points reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So, please, just treat the men around you correctly, and with understanding of them not only as individuals but also as men, whether grown or otherwise but according to their age and status, and spare everyone the posturing. THAT is what is wrong with the world today. It's like eveyone is on reality TV. We saw it coming. Then we forgot that we saw it. -1 -1point reply Load More Replies... fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago But whether the net result is really one or the other is probably subjective at best, but that's the closest thing that we have to the object that morality attempts to achieve. -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (And by "supportive of women and children" I mean specifically "in correct and proper accordance to the moral fad of the era", i.e. moral fashion, which is something completely other and even often quite directly opposed to having an integrated understanding of right and wrong - i.e. what it truly is to suffer and experience loss as well as to gain and have joy - and acting accordingly, which is what morality acutally is. Not the language you use. Not the banner you stand beneath. Not the mob that you align yourself with for some kind of social benefit. But the true understanding of the best and worst of mankind, of experience, and the identification of that as being embodied, all of it, entirely, within you, and all of it, entirely, being put utilised accordingly. And that is also to say that there is no right, no wrong, but there is suffering and there is propsperity and everything you do contributes to a greater or lesser degree to at least one of these two conditions... -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago that they were villainised and the men of generations previous and continually to this day face the plights that society places upon them while in the meanwhile being patronised and placated with hollow gestures such as this relatively nonsense attempt at encouragement which is in effect little more than the same infantilisation but in disguise are all generated by the same mainstream that BP ultimately represents are, I think, contrary to this disingenuous appeasements something that is truly worthy of introspection by all and by which positivity might actually eventually result. -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The neolothic collective mindset of BP has finally caught up and is interpretting what the MGTOW people were being vilainised for years ago already. And they in turn were only reinterpretting what was already pretty well known for a majority of people, yet mainstream society basically swept under the carpet in favour for being seen to be supportive of women and children (burying heads in the sand about the fact that today's men make up one half of yesterday's children in the utmost display of irony). That that movement only a few years ago (and I wasn't one of them but I could sympathise and intuitively understood where they were coming from) could be understood and accurately represented by anyone with an ounce of honesty and modicum of impartiality yet even today is described on Wikipedia to all future generations willing to try to understand their plight as a male as inhernetly mysoginistic because they have resentment for unfair treatment in preference to women, and... -1 -1point reply James Reyes James Reyes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I really, REALLY needed this today. So much so that after 10 years of lurking, this is actually my first ever BP post. 18 18points reply Call Me Mars Call Me Mars Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Welcome! Its great to have you here! 9 9points reply Load More Replies... anarkzie anarkzie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Welcome to the BP family. 6 6points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And a fine post it is :) welcome! 2 2points reply Janus Sanders Janus Sanders Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago welcome! we're glad to have you :) 0 0points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago It is wonderful to see this kind of positive messages for men and boys! Toxic and sexist ideas about masculinity really harm a lot of men. We need to teach this things in school to all kids. 11 11points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago I love how in every pro women roghts post there are twenty misoginistic trolls whining about "we never have nice posts about men". But then when bp makes posts about men they are never here. It is almost as if they dont care about men and only use that as an excuse to attack women... hmm.. 4 4points reply Load More Replies... Aliquid A Aliquid A Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago True, I'm not surprised though 2 2points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Me neither. They don’t care about helping men. They care about hurting women. 2 2points reply Load More Comments POST Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm so damn glad to see something so affirming and toxicity-battling as this for males: there is a fair amount for women, but very little for men! I'm bookmarking this for my son 26 26points reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So, please, just treat the men around you correctly, and with understanding of them not only as individuals but also as men, whether grown or otherwise but according to their age and status, and spare everyone the posturing. THAT is what is wrong with the world today. It's like eveyone is on reality TV. We saw it coming. Then we forgot that we saw it. -1 -1point reply Load More Replies... fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago But whether the net result is really one or the other is probably subjective at best, but that's the closest thing that we have to the object that morality attempts to achieve. -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (And by "supportive of women and children" I mean specifically "in correct and proper accordance to the moral fad of the era", i.e. moral fashion, which is something completely other and even often quite directly opposed to having an integrated understanding of right and wrong - i.e. what it truly is to suffer and experience loss as well as to gain and have joy - and acting accordingly, which is what morality acutally is. Not the language you use. Not the banner you stand beneath. Not the mob that you align yourself with for some kind of social benefit. But the true understanding of the best and worst of mankind, of experience, and the identification of that as being embodied, all of it, entirely, within you, and all of it, entirely, being put utilised accordingly. And that is also to say that there is no right, no wrong, but there is suffering and there is propsperity and everything you do contributes to a greater or lesser degree to at least one of these two conditions... -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago that they were villainised and the men of generations previous and continually to this day face the plights that society places upon them while in the meanwhile being patronised and placated with hollow gestures such as this relatively nonsense attempt at encouragement which is in effect little more than the same infantilisation but in disguise are all generated by the same mainstream that BP ultimately represents are, I think, contrary to this disingenuous appeasements something that is truly worthy of introspection by all and by which positivity might actually eventually result. -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The neolothic collective mindset of BP has finally caught up and is interpretting what the MGTOW people were being vilainised for years ago already. And they in turn were only reinterpretting what was already pretty well known for a majority of people, yet mainstream society basically swept under the carpet in favour for being seen to be supportive of women and children (burying heads in the sand about the fact that today's men make up one half of yesterday's children in the utmost display of irony). That that movement only a few years ago (and I wasn't one of them but I could sympathise and intuitively understood where they were coming from) could be understood and accurately represented by anyone with an ounce of honesty and modicum of impartiality yet even today is described on Wikipedia to all future generations willing to try to understand their plight as a male as inhernetly mysoginistic because they have resentment for unfair treatment in preference to women, and... -1 -1point reply James Reyes James Reyes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I really, REALLY needed this today. So much so that after 10 years of lurking, this is actually my first ever BP post. 18 18points reply Call Me Mars Call Me Mars Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Welcome! Its great to have you here! 9 9points reply Load More Replies... anarkzie anarkzie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Welcome to the BP family. 6 6points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And a fine post it is :) welcome! 2 2points reply Janus Sanders Janus Sanders Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago welcome! we're glad to have you :) 0 0points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago It is wonderful to see this kind of positive messages for men and boys! Toxic and sexist ideas about masculinity really harm a lot of men. We need to teach this things in school to all kids. 11 11points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago I love how in every pro women roghts post there are twenty misoginistic trolls whining about "we never have nice posts about men". But then when bp makes posts about men they are never here. It is almost as if they dont care about men and only use that as an excuse to attack women... hmm.. 4 4points reply Load More Replies... Aliquid A Aliquid A Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago True, I'm not surprised though 2 2points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Me neither. They don’t care about helping men. They care about hurting women. 2 2points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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Publish Not your original work? Add source Lena Dirscherl, who is known online as BoPoLena, is an artist and body acceptance activist, and they can perfectly blend the two together. Recently, BoPoLena has been working on an illustration series dedicated to the male body. More specifically, the struggles that come with it-both internal and external. "It seems I've struck a nerve with this message: body positivity is not only for women," BoPoLena said. "No, it's for all genders! Men also suffer [from] diet culture and the pressure to look as 'attractive' as possible. But you all are already beautiful! You are great the way you are! You don't need diets or gyms to be worthy! You are already worthy and loved!" More info: bopolena.com Instagram Patreon This post may include affiliate links. #1 bopolena Report Final score: 75points POST -Stitch- -Stitch- Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago YES.IT.DOES. 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 bopolena Report Final score: 72points POST Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I like this one. The "real man" is a concept, it's not real. 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments BoPoLena started drawing and posting body positive messages every week on Instagram in August 2016. "I realized very quickly that most people assume that body issues, eating disorders and the struggle for acceptance are 'women's issues,'" BoPoLena told Bored Panda. "[But that] is not true at all! However, that might be the reason why the body positive community online is dominated by white able-bodied heterosexual cis women. Which I think is ironic since the whole movement has its origins in the Fat Acceptance Movement which was led by black women and people of color." #3 bopolena Report Final score: 71points POST TheLazyPoki TheLazyPoki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago YES. Men crying is deemed too feminine, and that seriously needs to stop. Crying is just a natural thing that people do, and it isn't okay to just bottle up your emotions to seem more like a man. If anything, people should be more feminine if this is what comes of being masculine. 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 bopolena Report Final score: 71points POST denzoren denzoren Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We don't wear clothes apparently...just drape some tarpaulin and we're good to go. 18 18points reply View more comments BoPoLena isn't the only soldier on the front. In recent years, male celebrities, including Chris Pratt, Ed Sheeran, and Robert Pattinson have been increasingly vocal when it comes to insecurities about their looks. And it's been long overdue. Research by psychiatrists at UCLA shows that overall, people nowadays feel worse about the way they look than they did in the 1970s. The problem concerns not just college guys hitting the gym to try to get a date: around 90 percent of boys in middle and high school exercise at least occasionally with the specific goal of bulking up. It's about time we start speaking about it more. #5 bopolena Report Final score: 70points POST ScarlettofHydraIsland ScarlettofHydraIsland Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And neither are the pictures you see on Instagram. Lighting and angles matter, and also, people (like me) tend to suck in their stomachs. 14 14points reply View more comments #6 bopolena Report Final score: 68points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Completely :) We need to encourage men to not be ashamed of bolding. It is a natural process and one that its nobody's fault. 19 19points reply View More Replies... View more comments As you can see, BoPoLena features a very diverse set of characters in their work. "In each of my series, I focus on a different group that hasn't been represented very well in the BoPo community yet. I did an illustration series on men, on non-binary folx, on intersex people and my next series will be on trans people of all genders." The artist also plans to tackle disabilities and chronic illnesses in the future but they still need to do more research on these topics. "I'm always in close contact with people of the groups that I try to represent in my art in order to amplify their voices." BoPoLena says it's their goal to spread body positivity for all people, in all bodies, so that everyone can feel represented in the movement, and if you ask me, they're doing one heck of a job. #7 bopolena Report Final score: 67points POST -Stitch- -Stitch- Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago :’) 21 21points reply View more comments #8 bopolena Report Final score: 67points POST Xottel Xottel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Well I have always been skinny (not on purpose, I hated it) and this looks like my best school buddy and me 7 7points reply View more comments #9 bopolena Report Final score: 67points POST Ryan Deschanel Ryan Deschanel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) Really? I'm 5'6 / 171cm tall, so why does everybody hate / reject / despise me because of that? 7 7points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 bopolena Report Final score: 65points POST Abhinc Abhinc Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago yes yes yes !!! couldn't agree more. i'm a man myself. i love cooking and gardening. i have absolutely no interest in sports or cars. deal with it !! 43 43points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 bopolena Report Final score: 62points POST Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago A moderate amount of femininity is attractive, to be honest. But tastes vary by individuals anyway, so just try to be comfortable with who you are. If you keep your aesthetics and mannerisms for others, there's always going to be someone who doesn't like you, so not worthy bothering for that. 24 24points reply View more comments #12 bopolena Report Final score: 59points POST Ambar Ambar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago everyone needs emotional support, men need it as much as women! 18 18points reply View more comments #13 bopolena Report Final score: 57points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago I have always been more attracted to men considered short. As a short woman it just makes more sense. 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 bopolena Report Final score: 54points POST Simon Smith Simon Smith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Health issues, its a real problem 1 1point reply View more comments #15 bopolena Report Final score: 54points POST Ambar Ambar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago struggles to me are ok and help you grow. having family issues and need to cry that's ok! having money issues and need to cry that's ok! need to vent that's fine! 10 10points reply #16 bopolena Report Final score: 52points POST Abhinc Abhinc Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago once again yes yes yes !! 41yo man speaking. i do cry. sad or happy i cry when emotions are strong. and there is nothing wrong with that. plus i really don't care what people think about it. let's stop pushing men to be emotionless robots. that toxic masculinity is extremely destructive and has to stop !! 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #17 bopolena Report Final score: 52points POST Valisbourne Spiritforge Valisbourne Spiritforge Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's just genetics, not whatever standard of "manliness" applies to having a beard. 9 9points reply View more comments #18 bopolena Report Final score: 51points POST Josh Tall Josh Tall Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago we have more love to give! 6 6points reply View more comments #19 bopolena Report Final score: 45points POST Bettie-Jean Neal Bettie-Jean Neal Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Reproduction is overrated. 16 16points reply View more comments #20 bopolena Report Final score: 44points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Also most women don't really want a big penis, or at leas the ones I asked about this. We need forplay not a big c**k. 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 bopolena Report Final score: 42points POST L - E - Y, (V.1.O) L - E - Y, (V.1.O) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago He looks amaze 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 bopolena Report Final score: 41points POST Simon Smith Simon Smith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Correct but not fat, health issues will come in 2 2points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 bopolena Report Final score: 39points POST Kitty Luna Darrow Kitty Luna Darrow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago These are so sweet :) 6 6points reply View more comments #24 bopolena Report Final score: 37points POST Simon Smith Simon Smith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Correct 3 3points reply View more comments #25 bopolena Report Final score: 36points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago You should only do it if its to make yourself happier. 18 18points reply View more comments #26 bopolena Report Final score: 36points POST -Stitch- -Stitch- Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Absolutely great. The greatest 11 11points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #27 bopolena Report Final score: 35points POST Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I know this is specifically referring to intersex people, as explicitly stated within the picture. However, I'd really like to point out how someone's voice - whether it's talking or singing - can really be an amazing charming point that can do wonders to a woman/man's psyche. When talking about attraction, the topics tend to put so much focus on the visual parts of the body, and the voice is often overlooked, but it can be such a strong point sometimes. 14 14points reply View more comments #28 bopolena Report Final score: 34points POST Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's also hard to be Ryu 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 bopolena Report Final score: 33points POST Iggy Iggy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Please don't do that. If you want to go, great. If you don't, great. 10 10points reply View more comments #30 bopolena Report Final score: 31points POST -Stitch- -Stitch- Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Cool I will so take that 8 8points reply View more comments Note: this post originally had 58 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes. 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POST Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm so damn glad to see something so affirming and toxicity-battling as this for males: there is a fair amount for women, but very little for men! I'm bookmarking this for my son 26 26points reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So, please, just treat the men around you correctly, and with understanding of them not only as individuals but also as men, whether grown or otherwise but according to their age and status, and spare everyone the posturing. THAT is what is wrong with the world today. It's like eveyone is on reality TV. We saw it coming. Then we forgot that we saw it. -1 -1point reply Load More Replies... fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago But whether the net result is really one or the other is probably subjective at best, but that's the closest thing that we have to the object that morality attempts to achieve. -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (And by "supportive of women and children" I mean specifically "in correct and proper accordance to the moral fad of the era", i.e. moral fashion, which is something completely other and even often quite directly opposed to having an integrated understanding of right and wrong - i.e. what it truly is to suffer and experience loss as well as to gain and have joy - and acting accordingly, which is what morality acutally is. Not the language you use. Not the banner you stand beneath. Not the mob that you align yourself with for some kind of social benefit. But the true understanding of the best and worst of mankind, of experience, and the identification of that as being embodied, all of it, entirely, within you, and all of it, entirely, being put utilised accordingly. And that is also to say that there is no right, no wrong, but there is suffering and there is propsperity and everything you do contributes to a greater or lesser degree to at least one of these two conditions... -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago that they were villainised and the men of generations previous and continually to this day face the plights that society places upon them while in the meanwhile being patronised and placated with hollow gestures such as this relatively nonsense attempt at encouragement which is in effect little more than the same infantilisation but in disguise are all generated by the same mainstream that BP ultimately represents are, I think, contrary to this disingenuous appeasements something that is truly worthy of introspection by all and by which positivity might actually eventually result. -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The neolothic collective mindset of BP has finally caught up and is interpretting what the MGTOW people were being vilainised for years ago already. And they in turn were only reinterpretting what was already pretty well known for a majority of people, yet mainstream society basically swept under the carpet in favour for being seen to be supportive of women and children (burying heads in the sand about the fact that today's men make up one half of yesterday's children in the utmost display of irony). That that movement only a few years ago (and I wasn't one of them but I could sympathise and intuitively understood where they were coming from) could be understood and accurately represented by anyone with an ounce of honesty and modicum of impartiality yet even today is described on Wikipedia to all future generations willing to try to understand their plight as a male as inhernetly mysoginistic because they have resentment for unfair treatment in preference to women, and... -1 -1point reply James Reyes James Reyes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I really, REALLY needed this today. So much so that after 10 years of lurking, this is actually my first ever BP post. 18 18points reply Call Me Mars Call Me Mars Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Welcome! Its great to have you here! 9 9points reply Load More Replies... anarkzie anarkzie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Welcome to the BP family. 6 6points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And a fine post it is :) welcome! 2 2points reply Janus Sanders Janus Sanders Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago welcome! we're glad to have you :) 0 0points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago It is wonderful to see this kind of positive messages for men and boys! Toxic and sexist ideas about masculinity really harm a lot of men. We need to teach this things in school to all kids. 11 11points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago I love how in every pro women roghts post there are twenty misoginistic trolls whining about "we never have nice posts about men". But then when bp makes posts about men they are never here. It is almost as if they dont care about men and only use that as an excuse to attack women... hmm.. 4 4points reply Load More Replies... Aliquid A Aliquid A Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago True, I'm not surprised though 2 2points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Me neither. They don’t care about helping men. They care about hurting women. 2 2points reply Load More Comments POST Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I'm so damn glad to see something so affirming and toxicity-battling as this for males: there is a fair amount for women, but very little for men! I'm bookmarking this for my son 26 26points reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So, please, just treat the men around you correctly, and with understanding of them not only as individuals but also as men, whether grown or otherwise but according to their age and status, and spare everyone the posturing. THAT is what is wrong with the world today. It's like eveyone is on reality TV. We saw it coming. Then we forgot that we saw it. -1 -1point reply Load More Replies... fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago But whether the net result is really one or the other is probably subjective at best, but that's the closest thing that we have to the object that morality attempts to achieve. -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (And by "supportive of women and children" I mean specifically "in correct and proper accordance to the moral fad of the era", i.e. moral fashion, which is something completely other and even often quite directly opposed to having an integrated understanding of right and wrong - i.e. what it truly is to suffer and experience loss as well as to gain and have joy - and acting accordingly, which is what morality acutally is. Not the language you use. Not the banner you stand beneath. Not the mob that you align yourself with for some kind of social benefit. But the true understanding of the best and worst of mankind, of experience, and the identification of that as being embodied, all of it, entirely, within you, and all of it, entirely, being put utilised accordingly. And that is also to say that there is no right, no wrong, but there is suffering and there is propsperity and everything you do contributes to a greater or lesser degree to at least one of these two conditions... -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago that they were villainised and the men of generations previous and continually to this day face the plights that society places upon them while in the meanwhile being patronised and placated with hollow gestures such as this relatively nonsense attempt at encouragement which is in effect little more than the same infantilisation but in disguise are all generated by the same mainstream that BP ultimately represents are, I think, contrary to this disingenuous appeasements something that is truly worthy of introspection by all and by which positivity might actually eventually result. -1 -1point reply fuggnuggins fuggnuggins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The neolothic collective mindset of BP has finally caught up and is interpretting what the MGTOW people were being vilainised for years ago already. And they in turn were only reinterpretting what was already pretty well known for a majority of people, yet mainstream society basically swept under the carpet in favour for being seen to be supportive of women and children (burying heads in the sand about the fact that today's men make up one half of yesterday's children in the utmost display of irony). That that movement only a few years ago (and I wasn't one of them but I could sympathise and intuitively understood where they were coming from) could be understood and accurately represented by anyone with an ounce of honesty and modicum of impartiality yet even today is described on Wikipedia to all future generations willing to try to understand their plight as a male as inhernetly mysoginistic because they have resentment for unfair treatment in preference to women, and... -1 -1point reply James Reyes James Reyes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I really, REALLY needed this today. So much so that after 10 years of lurking, this is actually my first ever BP post. 18 18points reply Call Me Mars Call Me Mars Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Welcome! Its great to have you here! 9 9points reply Load More Replies... anarkzie anarkzie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Welcome to the BP family. 6 6points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And a fine post it is :) welcome! 2 2points reply Janus Sanders Janus Sanders Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago welcome! we're glad to have you :) 0 0points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago It is wonderful to see this kind of positive messages for men and boys! Toxic and sexist ideas about masculinity really harm a lot of men. We need to teach this things in school to all kids. 11 11points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago I love how in every pro women roghts post there are twenty misoginistic trolls whining about "we never have nice posts about men". But then when bp makes posts about men they are never here. It is almost as if they dont care about men and only use that as an excuse to attack women... hmm.. 4 4points reply Load More Replies... Aliquid A Aliquid A Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago True, I'm not surprised though 2 2points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Me neither. They don’t care about helping men. They care about hurting women. 2 2points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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