I’m not saying that doesn’t happen, because it does.  Women definitely, definitely have unrealistic expectations of beauty thanks to society.  But that doesn’t mean that men don’t get tormented about their appearance.  Society has unrealistic expectations of men just like they do with women.  That was the point I was making.  Men have body issues, too. There are crazy expectations for them, too.  But there’s this expectation of men, you know?  They’re tough guys, right?  They’re strong and mighty and are the providers.  Leave the beauty to the women.  But they care about those things, too.  Men are insecure.  But no!  You’re a man, you shouldn’t let that bother you!  

But if they don’t show that it bothers them, then we say, “Men just don’t understand where we’re coming from.  Men don’t get it, they never will, he’s not capable of understanding what we go through.”  

But let’s be honest, not every man looks like Chris Hemsworth, right?  But that’s who women fawn over.  Unless if you listen to the gospel of comedies.  There are plenty of shows where the fat guy gets the girl, right?  And the girl is hot.  Family Guy.  King of Queens.  Hell even the Flintstones.  So there’s this feeling of, “Well wow how come Peter Griffin with his size and his stupidity gets this smokin’ hot wife when, in reality, there’s plus sized men who can’t land a date?”  And I enjoy King of Queens and there are a few episodes where he’s told he should lose weight, but in the end he stays the size he is because she loves him no matter what.

But that’s not always the reality.

Or even a series with just, I dunno, a husband a wife.  "Oh that wife of mine takes so long in the bathroom.  Always worried about her appearance.“  She comes out like, "You don’t get it.  Men don’t have to worry about these things.”

But they do!  They do worry about how they look!  We live in a society that focuses on a woman’s appearance, so suddenly when a man is concerned about his looks it’s either a) looked down upon/seen as weak b) played off as a joke, c) he’s gay

Men are pressured into weight loss and things, too.  The problem, and the point I’m trying to make, is that society rarely shows this.  Because, as I said (and you said, too) society focuses on the appearance of women.  So when some guy is like, “I have body issues too,” the response is, “Oh boo hoo, cry me a river, women have it harder.”  Body issues effect everyone.  We know it effects women because we speak about it.  We believe it doesn’t effect men because either we don’t speak about it, or if we do, it gets downplayed somehow.