“Guys with Big Muscles Have Misplaced Priorities”: Masculinities and Muscularities in Young South Korean Men’s Body Image

Monocello, Lawrence T.

doi:10.1007/s11013-022-09784-3

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“…The soft masculinity of kkonminam is "antithetical to hard, physical and hypersexual masculinity" (Lee 2020, p. 111). As BTS is a global representative example of kkonminam masculinity (Monocello 2022), their replaced masculinity in Indian fanfictions indicates that for Indian fan writers, the reality of heteropatriarchal masculinity supersedes the mediatized soft masculinity of Korean men.…”

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Clutching on to Gendered Tropes? Framing of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics by Young Indian Writers of BTS Fanfiction

Chandi

Trehan

2022

Journalism and Media

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As more young girls write stories online thanks to the increased amount of publishing platforms, their fiction becomes a means to explore if they are offsetting prescribed practices of patriarchy in their gender constructions. Often, young women interrogate gender and recontextualize their experiences by writing fanfictions. In the age of transmedia storytelling, various online fan communities are rich data sources, as transnational female fans prolifically write fiction featuring icons from music and movies belonging to another country. We examined how young Indian girls frame gender roles and power dynamics in their fanfictions of BTS, the South Korean boyband, on Wattpad. To know if conventional gender frames are upheld or challenged in fanfiction stories revolving around non-Indian celebrities, we performed a textual analysis on forty-four BTS fanfictions. We found that in these fanfictions, existing gendered tropes used to depict masculinity and femininity are mostly normalized, with minor alterations reflecting a power imbalance typical in Indian patriarchal households. A subversion of tropes was found in framing men as emotionally expressive, arguably drawing from the soft masculinity projected in the home country of BTS–South Korea. Grounding these findings in self-categorization theory implores us to situate the construction of gendered identities within the socio-cultural conventions of fanfiction writers.

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Clutching on to Gendered Tropes? Framing of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics by Young Indian Writers of BTS Fanfiction

Chandi

Trehan

2022

Journalism and Media

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“…The perfect figure of idols always reflects gender differences in ideal body image. Male idols are expected to be thin but muscular (Pope et al, 1999), while female idol always receives an expectation of being 'thin and light' in body shape and weight (Jackson et al, 2021;Monocello, 2023). Under these aesthetic tendencies, men experience their muscles as ornamental, while women are dissatisfied with their normal body and always aspire to be thinner and slimmer (Hoodbhoy et al, 2015;Jackson et al, 2021;Kim and Han, 2021).…”

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The effect of gender in binge eating behavior in Chinese culture: the serial mediation model of body dissatisfaction and self-acceptance

Li,

Lyu,

Yan

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThe gender difference of binge eating behavior been highlighted by previous studies. However, psychological mechanisms underlying the gender difference of binge eating behavior remain unclear. This study addressed this issue from a sociocultural perspective.MethodsFirstly, we investigated the mediation effect of body dissatisfaction on the gender difference of binge eating behavior. Secondly, we examine the serial mediating role of body dissatisfaction and self-acceptance in gender differences of binge eating behavior. Here, we analyzed data from 703 Chinese university students using SPSS 26.0 and SPSS PROCESS.ResultsIn Chinese culture, body dissatisfaction and self-acceptance independently or through a serial way mediate the gender differences in binge eating behaviors.DiscussionWe discussed the implications and limitations of the present study.

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A cultural models approach to understanding body fatness perceptions and disordered eating in young South Korean men

Monocello,

Lavender,

Fowler

et al. 2024

Intl J Eating Disorders

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ObjectiveThe eating disorders field has been limited by a predominant focus on White, Western women, and there is growing recognition of the need to understand cross‐cultural variation in key constructs (i.e., ideal body types). A transdisciplinary, cultural models approach systematizes the incorporation of an “emic” perspective (a culture's own understandings of phenomena) into assessments of relationships between body shapes and eating disorders.MethodEighty‐one young South Korean men aged 19–34 years living in Seoul participated in this research. A cultural model of body fatness was identified using cultural consensus analysis during 18 months of ethnographic, mixed‐methods fieldwork. Participants also completed questionnaires assessing age, height, weight, sexual identity, university prestige, body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms, and cultural consonance with the Korean cultural model of the ideal male body. Variation in these factors was analyzed using a series of chi‐squares and analyses of variance with the culturally defined categories of body fatness as the independent variables.ResultsCultural consensus analysis found that young South Korean men are consistent in identifying categories of “too thin,” “balanced,” and “too fat.” The “balanced” category contained the lowest proportion of high‐prestige university attendees and the highest average cultural consonance. The “too fat” category was characterized by the highest levels of body dissatisfaction and dieting, as well as proportion of probable eating disorders.DiscussionA cultural models approach identified culturally important factors and patterns in disordered eating among young South Korean men and may be effective for understanding eating disorders in other populations not typically studied.Public SignificanceThis study applies a systematic, “emic” perspective to young South Korean men's body ideals. Young Korean men share a cultural model of body fatness, and this model frames how they experience risk for eating disorders. This study demonstrates a method for incorporating culture into research on eating disorder risk.

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“Guys with Big Muscles Have Misplaced Priorities”: Masculinities and Muscularities in Young South Korean Men’s Body Image

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Clutching on to Gendered Tropes? Framing of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics by Young Indian Writers of BTS Fanfiction

Clutching on to Gendered Tropes? Framing of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics by Young Indian Writers of BTS Fanfiction

The effect of gender in binge eating behavior in Chinese culture: the serial mediation model of body dissatisfaction and self-acceptance

A cultural models approach to understanding body fatness perceptions and disordered eating in young South Korean men

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