What If Masculinity Looked Like Care

About this episode

The episode explores the contrasting public perceptions of individuals based on their food choices and the implications of masculinity in relation to care and nutrition.

The internet can watch two people eat the same thing and hand out two completely different verdicts. One gets “icon” and “girl dinner.” The other gets called disgusting, lazy, and doomed. We start there, with the weird psychology of viral eating content, the shame spiral it can trigger, and why a donut and matcha can somehow become a public trial when the person holding it is overweight. Then we bring on Joey T Fitness (Joe Douglas), a creator who stitches misinformation for a living and sti...

People in this episode

Hosts: Rob Lapham, Liam Layton

Guest: Joey T Fitness

Topics covered

• masculinity
• viral content
• psychology
• body image
• nutrition
• shame

Keywords

• masculinity
• viral eating content
• body image
• nutrition
• shame spiral
• Joey T Fitness

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