I feel like a lot straight women don’t appreciate men as much as they should. I often over hear and am apart of discussions that involve women talking about how much more attractive the female body is compared to the male, how male bodies are ugly, etc. As a gay man, I really don’t get this at all. I think everything about the male body— the lines, the waves of muscle, the tufts of hair —is beautiful, and it really bothers me to hear from women, who have such a large selection of men to choose from, how ugly or strange the male body is. Straight women have it much easier than gay men as far as dating goes. You can look at any guy and assume he’s straight. There’s a lot more guesswork with gay men. I would love to have the amount of selection most straight women have. I guess I just feel like a lot of women take the male body for granted. I also think straight men are very self-deprecating when it comes to their bodies. I’ve heard many straight men talk about how ugly their bodies are compared to female bodies, or how ugly their bodies are in general. One may chalk that up to being part of the fact that they are straight men and so naturally find women to be more attractive but to find one’s body to be ugly seems to be going a little too far. Maybe it goes along with this fear that some straight men have of being seen as gay or of having homoerotic fantasies. Anyway, I made a lot of assumptions in this post that may not actually be true and it wasn’t very well-worded because I’m kind of sleep right now. Maybe I’ll rewrite this post later with a little more eloquence.