self conscious about their bodies like girls are? like they just walk around naked in locker rooms, yet girls never do that (sorry, boys)?
shareThe younger folks can correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that the schools don't require kids to shower after gym class anymore. Back in the 80s and earlier, it was a requirement, no matter if you were self-conscious or not.
shareI know that when I was in high school, showers were not required. And they didn't even give us enough time if we wanted to take one. Class was usually dismissed about five minutes before the bell to end the period rang, after that we had three minutes to get to the next class.
shareSorry 2 post this due to u posted this yrs ago but I'm a girl who was more self conscious than ever. Not cuz I didn't like my body but just a certain body part (i.e. ankles). I had a mark on my ankle due to a break on it when I was younger that It always bothered me for others to see.
Of course I later got over it but as a kid that was an issue just like most of my other friends had issues w/ us either seeing them naked (all over or just certain parts).
Had friends who watched this movie w/ me that questioned why the guys in this film were acting questionable.Ironically guys are not so different from girls . Maybe I can get this due 2 being a tomboy but I personally don't think girls are too much emotional/tearjerkers/etc. But sadly some perhaps are ~ but doubt those ever saw this movie and if they have ... would have posted on here.
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Had friends who watched this movie w/ me that questioned why the guys in this film were acting questionable.
I think it's obvious that women are constantly inundated by the media with the message that our bodies are never good enough, while men are allowed to look however they want. Think about all the sitcoms with the fat dude with a hot wife. Meanwhile, even the hottest female celebrities are airbrushed within an inch of their lives just to appear on the cover of a magazine. Have you ever seen the cover of the Enquirer show male celebs with cellulite at the beach? Television for women consists of ad breaks that go: "fattening food ad, diet ad, diet ad, fitness ad, cleaning product ad, depression medication ad, skin cream ad, fattening food ad."
Keeping us insecure is big business for the fitness, fashion, makeup and pharmaceutical industries.
Not only just that women in general always seem to be more judgmental to other women about their bodies.
shareExactly. I think that's the biggest problem. I mean, if women are going to judge their own gender, then it pretty much gives males the right to. I wish some women would stop being so vapid and superficial and respect their own sex a little more.
I only do it with superheroes.
To be very very clear - guys absolutely do not do this now in school. Not jr. high, not highschool. I graduated high school in 2001 (in southern ca). The shower stalls were used to store equipment. When I asked when they were last used the staff said it hadn't been since the early 80s. I feel like this movie really plays up the locker room scene in the same way it plays up a lot of other aspects.
College in socal wasn't much different. Slightly less paranoia about being absolutely covered but still very very little nudity.
Since then I see guys more comfortably naked at the gym, but it still much more common that it is older men. The younger crowd is more likely to have suits or towels on in the sauna and walking around.
I think part of it all has to do with society becoming so sexualized. The irony is that people in a locker room would feel embarrassed now when there shouldnt be any sexual connotations to that.
Coming from someone who graduated more recently, in 2009, I can say with certainty that guys still do this nowadays. It's something that will never go away. Firstly, I'm from Southern Minnesota. I realize this doesn't apply to everyone's trial of High School (something some of you don't seem to get). However, from my experience, in Junior High all the guys were pretty self-conscious about the issue and thought it was stupid. Entering into High School is when my fellow class members perceptions started to change. My Sophomore year I had a weight lifting elective. Almost the entire locker room of guys would shower after every class. Not just that. It wasn't uncommon for guys to go to the front of the locker room where there's more space, so they could talk in a circle while getting dressed after a shower.
Fact is, things will be different for everyone in every region. There is no right or wrong answers in this thread, just certain peoples experiences.
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I was a boy, in jr. high school and high school, between 1966 and 1972 in southern California. We were required to shower after P.E. class every day. The first time I had to strip in front of everyone, when I was twelve years old in seventh grade, I was very self-conscious and uncomfortable. Within a few days I was used to it and didn't care anymore. All through jr. high and high school, all the guys walked around naked between the lockers and the showers and it was no big deal. The showers did not have stalls, they were just in a big, open, tiled section of the locker room with a lot of shower heads about three feet apart. You couldn't help seeing everybody, but I certainly didn't gaze at other guys' packages, and as far as I could tell nobody else did, either. If there were any gay guys who did, they were discrete about it. About the worst thing you had to worry about was occasionally getting popped on the bare ass with the corner of a wet towel. I don't know what it was like in the girls' locker room. I always assumed they were all in there walking around naked, too. One of our fantasies was to drill a small peephole through the common wall so we could spy on them naked, but we never tried it. Another fantasy was to become invisible so we could walk into the girls' locker room undetected, but the technology did not exist.
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