Roberto Olivardia, PhD

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Speaking of Psychology · Social media, looksmaxxing, and why men struggle with body image, with Roberto Olivardia, PhD · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

There's so much, again, this sort of really negative messaging that's sort of in this manosphere culture on social media of these very kind of archaic ways of what it means to be a man.

So that discussion, but it's not dissimilar that with women, let's say with eating disorders, who might want to achieve a certain ideal to be, quote unquote, more feminine.

Those discussions could be, what does it mean to be a woman?

And, you know, in that kind of way.

So it's similar, but it's just a different kind of perspective.

Well, first, I think it's so important for parents to know if your child is on social media, who are they following?

That's because when you know who someone is following, to understand that unlike parents,

magazines and advertisements and movies and that kind of imagery that years ago we were talking about.

Social media, as you know, is curated for an individual where in a given day they can be exposed to hundreds to thousands of imagery of video posts.

Some of them could even be personalized for individuals.

And you're seeing other people's responses to that.

Other people that might be saying, oh, wow, I did this and it worked and this and this and this.

This is like, I mean, no pun, I guess pun intended, but this is like all of that on steroids, you know, all of that media imagery we were talking about from two decades ago, you know, to a whole other level.

And with curiosity, I say with parents, lean into it like, oh, who are you following?

And then rather than, oh my gosh, you shouldn't follow this, this is – look into their stuff and then have conversations with your child around – tell me what you find appealing about this person.

And with trying not to have –

Judgment, even even though, you know, obviously, as parents, we're going to be, you know, concerned because what you want is really to have a conversation.

And and a lot of times with the kids, young or teens that I work with, when I ask them that question.

They'll tell me like, oh, and sometimes they'll say, oh, I know this, what he does and talks about with this is a little out there, but this stuff is normal.

But the thing is, is I notice in my patients, the stuff that they regard as being like really out there one month later that year, it's not so out there anymore.

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