I’ve always loved to swim, and then, suddenly, I was shopping for two pieces, but I hated the way they looked on me when I was in high school — like everyone else, I thought my body was repulsive. I think it was kind of revelation one day when I realized that I liked wearing a two piece and it looked pretty good on me, I loved swimming, and eff it all, I didn’t care who saw me in the thing or what they thought about it. Freeing, really. But I think you could’ve told me the same thing in high school and I’d have thought you were crazy. It’s funny or sad (or both) how insecure everyone is at that age.

Similarly in any rap video (or other music videos often) the man is wearing baggy pants, sleeved shirts and often even a jacket on top of them, while the women dance around him in bikinis. I often wonder like isn’t he getting hot/aren’t they getting cold, when such differently clothed people occupy the same temperatured room.

Women are pressured much more to have the perfect bodies than men are, while women are also forced to show off their bodies a lot more. A pasty, soft stomached male has more choices in hiding himself.