So much for Knowledge and the Power of the Internet

[Paa_Paw]

With the opening of the internet and the rapid access to volumes of information, I thought that Gynecomastia  would no longer be a condition that stigmatized young men. Depending upon who you believe, the condition effects some 30% to 40% of all males over the age of 12. Because of the effects of age, and as a result of side effects to medications, the number of men with Gynecomastia increases to almost 70% after the 6th decade of life. With these numbers, the condition is clearly within the statistical norm.

What I failed to see coming was this age in which people hold themselves to an array of artificial or contrived examples of perfection. Like the young women who want to have surgery on their genitalia so they will look normal. Their Genitalia does not look like that of the girls in their boyfriends Porn Magazines. Guess what? the photos in the Porn Mag. had been airbrushed. It was the Magazine Photographs that were not normal. So much for information.

What about the cute little gal who wanted to (did you guess 'look normal'?) so she found a surgeon who would give her 600 ml implants. Now she looks ridiculous, Like a tiny boat with waaay too much sail.

What about the teasing? A bully will fade into the woodwork if he knows he is outnumbered. The teasing will stop when we make it stop. We really do have that power. So what do we do when we see someone being bullied or teased? Do we come to their aid? NO! we ignore the situation and we are thankful that we are not the focus of the bully at that moment. So much for power.

So we cower and hide, we cover ourselves up. We are in reality our own worst enemies. We don't come to the aid of others, much less ourselves.

A common question here is "Why Me?"  Why not us? Just perhaps we will develop a spine as we learn to  cope with it.