The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, August 22, 1999
The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, August 22, 1999
The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, August 22, 1999
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<strong>The</strong> Bully in the Mirror<br />
Because he's a perceptive kid, Alexander recognizes how feckless, how<br />
disturbing, how crazy this all is. "I tell you, it's definitely distressing," he said,<br />
"the fact that as much as girls get this anorexic thing and they're going through<br />
these image things with dolls and stuff, guys are definitely doing the same."<br />
True, he admitted, his social life has never been better. "But in a way it depresses<br />
me," he said, before heading off to a party, "that I had to do this for people to get<br />
to know me."<br />
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