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1. Blum: “…resenting these surgeries not as vain and superficial but as a route toward glowing self-improvement not as acts of self-loathing but as evidence of self-esteem” (802). 2. Kimmel: “And Atta was the odd man out in his family. His two sisters both became doctors-one a physician and one a university professor.” (654.)

Jealousy plays a big part in human behavior, and how people control their lives. It’s a competitive world nowadays and people get frustrated when others are succeeding around them. This ties into cosmetic surgery and how people want to achieve the same look as their idols around them. They are frustrated and society grants them a prescription to be “better.”

1. Petrocelli: “In stark contrast to the motivations espoused by adolescent, collegiate athletes, or professional steroid users, we found that frustration seems to be a primary motivator for the recreational steroid user” (757.) 2. Kimmel: “In the eyes of such downwardly mobile white men, most white American males collude in their own emasculation” (651.)

In today’s world, masculine is a powerful and “needed” objective for most males. If someone doesn’t have this masculinity, it is frowned upon, because of society’s recognized perception of how people should act. This concept is perceived by most steroid user’s today, and they believe that they weren’t powerful enough for society’s eyes.

1. Kimmel: “It is from such gendered shame that mass murders are made” (655.) 2. Lorber: “Most people, however, voluntarily go along with their society’s prescriptions for those of their gender status because the norms and expectations get built into their sense of worth and identity…” (732)

Today’s culture has built several things into the minds of people, so there is a normal. When there is a normal people tend to base things off of the normal in a