{"id":57456,"date":"2026-03-24T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/behind-the-rise-of-clavicular-and-looksmaxxing-there-are-insecure-young-men-who-feel-they-dont-measure-up-jason-okundaye-5\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:09:59","slug":"behind-the-rise-of-clavicular-and-looksmaxxing-there-are-insecure-young-men-who-feel-they-dont-measure-up-jason-okundaye-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/behind-the-rise-of-clavicular-and-looksmaxxing-there-are-insecure-young-men-who-feel-they-dont-measure-up-jason-okundaye-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the rise of Clavicular and \u2018looksmaxxing\u2019 there are insecure young men who feel they don\u2019t measure up | Jason Okundaye"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is a very private struggle \u2013 coming to terms with one\u2019s own appearance \u2013 is being reshaped into a site of competition and ridicule<\/p>\n

I felt something akin to devastation reading that the actor Barry Keoghan sometimes \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to go outside<\/a>\u201d because of the scale of online abuse about his appearance. It\u2019s not just the viciousness of the abuse, but how difficult I imagine it must have been for him to articulate, as well as what was not said \u2013 what parts of his face he\u2019s likely now had to obsess over and scrutinise.<\/p>\n

As a man, it is often hard to say out loud that you have been made to feel insecure in yourself, or that there are things that you do not like about your physical appearance. Keoghan\u2019s vulnerability as a grown man is striking, but I have also been thinking about how much harder it is to articulate this as a teenager or boy. I was well versed in the language of bodily dissatisfaction from a young age, though these were thoughts I would keep to myself: that I did not like my thinning hair, how narrow my shoulders were, my large forehead, or the eczema on my right hand that often drew questions like, \u201cWere you in a fire?\u201d I did not like that I was not as tall as my brothers, or even that my voice did not break with a deep manly husk but retained some squeakiness.<\/p>\n

Jason Okundaye is an assistant Opinion editor at the Guardian<\/p>\n

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What is a very private struggle \u2013 coming to terms with one\u2019s own appearance \u2013 is being reshaped into a site of competition and ridicule I felt something akin to devastation reading that the actor Barry Keoghan sometimes \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to go outside\u201d because of the scale of online abuse about his appearance. It\u2019s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}