I hope you are joking.

This entire thread has been about how the media and culture really values the female body. People talk about how all "women's bodies are beautiful" and say that penises are ugly. I've been taught that women are beautiful and men are ugly idiots since as long as I can remember. But we were talking about how the male body never has any positive attention unless they are super buff and wondering how that impacts their self esteem.

Maybe you could make the argument that society believes the female body is supposed to be beautiful and they push that idea through sexualizing it and criticizing women's bodies that do not fit that mold. However, I believe that most humans are sexual creatures who sexualize all other humans by nature and that isn't something caused by the way anyone is portrayed in the media or by the "patriarchy". And pointing out flaws in women's bodies is an effective marketing technique that is used on both sexes.

If the reason was society or "the patriarchy", you'd see a lot more people with similar opinions as me which you don't. You see a lot of women struggle with body image, but you don't see many women going so far as finding little interest in creating female characters in games and barely ever drawing pictures of women. People are naturally insecure about their bodies. Society rubs that wound but it didn't create it and it certainly isn't responsible for creating someone's more severe body image issues.

As a CSA victim and someone who was forced to disrobe, get on a scale, and screamed at when I didn't lose weight every week of my childhood, I find simply blaming my body issues on "the patriarchy" devaluing of my experience. It's also sexist because it blames men for my problems along with lumping me into all other women like I have no unique value or experiences.