I love your voting application! What an interactive way for the reader to be involved in your site!
To be honest, I never understood the scope of the issue of performance enhancing drugs until, particularly in the United States. While we hear a lot about it through the media, particularly because famous athletes and sports players have been caught, I think we are missing out on a large segment of users: young men. Guys are using these drugs not necessarily to perform better, but to look better. Society tells men to be strong, lean, and manly. Steroids and other drugs allow them to achieve this look. Women have targeted to look a certain way for years, but recently companies, like Dove, have been emphasizing inner, rather than outer, beauty, and have also been exposing the “real side” of models, air-brushing etc.
Do you think if a company, like Gillette, tried a similar technique, but targeted it towards men, it would be effective in reducing the number of young guys who felt the need to take steroids just to appear more desirable? The effects are catastrophic, and definitely not worth a pair of muscles.
Thanks Sara! I absolutely agree with you….we have to break the “status quo” among men and make it acceptable to be whatever we are. I’m at the gym quite a bit and I would estimate that 90% of the people I talk to just go to the gym to look good, as opposed to doing it for athletics or just doing it for general health…..this is part of why this is such a complex social issue. If we made it ok for guys to look how they wanted to look then there would surely be less pressure to put stuff into their bodies that would hurt them…
I love your voting application! What an interactive way for the reader to be involved in your site!
To be honest, I never understood the scope of the issue of performance enhancing drugs until, particularly in the United States. While we hear a lot about it through the media, particularly because famous athletes and sports players have been caught, I think we are missing out on a large segment of users: young men. Guys are using these drugs not necessarily to perform better, but to look better. Society tells men to be strong, lean, and manly. Steroids and other drugs allow them to achieve this look. Women have targeted to look a certain way for years, but recently companies, like Dove, have been emphasizing inner, rather than outer, beauty, and have also been exposing the “real side” of models, air-brushing etc.
Do you think if a company, like Gillette, tried a similar technique, but targeted it towards men, it would be effective in reducing the number of young guys who felt the need to take steroids just to appear more desirable? The effects are catastrophic, and definitely not worth a pair of muscles.
Thanks Sara! I absolutely agree with you….we have to break the “status quo” among men and make it acceptable to be whatever we are. I’m at the gym quite a bit and I would estimate that 90% of the people I talk to just go to the gym to look good, as opposed to doing it for athletics or just doing it for general health…..this is part of why this is such a complex social issue. If we made it ok for guys to look how they wanted to look then there would surely be less pressure to put stuff into their bodies that would hurt them…