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When did our culture develop the idea that women should be unrealistically thin? Historians trace this change to the 1970s, when extremely slim actresses like Audrey Hepburn became our cultural ideal. More recently, as you can see in the second photo, similar body pressures have infected the other sex, causing this vulnerable eighth-grade boy to struggle to attain the muscled male shape that is our contemporary cultural ideal.
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