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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 208 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is not a zero sum game. there's no competition. We can deal with both problems, we don't have to pick a side.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 53 points 2 years ago

Well yes, and the starting point is by dismissing the myth that the double standards are not applied to everyone. They are applied differently, but it is not something that only affects one group of people.

[–] BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social 74 points 2 years ago

I'm convinced the current influencer body standard for women (huge asses, giant lips, etc) was some joke by plastic surgeons and they just rolled with it

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Dude I like seeing sexy people on tv. If I want to look at something mediocre I can just look in a mirror.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago

You look mediocre? Lucky.

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (11 children)
[–] quams69@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

For sure a good six months of perfect training and diet, plus the steroids, AND the water manipulation.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I thought the T meant Testosterone, like TRT, Testosterone Replacement Therapy which is common for older men.

Like anything though, there's a fine line between use and abuse.

[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

and Amphetamines

yea bro we could actually get everything we would all look like that and all die at 50

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[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has anyone ever said the first statement up there in the top-left? I wouldn't doubt there's some fringe group that would, but I also think they would be in the vast minority and you'd need to specifically go looking to find it. I dislike this kind of meme for that reason, it's sowing a divide that doesn't need to exist.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have heard it regularly for a few decades now in person and media. When the dad bod picked up in popularity it was used as an example of how "men don't have to follow beauty standards" while ignoring all of the other expectations.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Last time I heard the term "dad bod", it was an article about how when they polled women for an example of one, the top answer was "Chris Hemsworth"

[–] Thatsalotofpotatoes@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's the water. That's the problem

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Only part of it, but it’s kinda crazy that studios can go “hey, you need to literally dehydrate yourself for this shot so your veins and muscles can pop out more easily.”

But this is also the industry where Stanley Kubrick practically abused his actors and is a celebrated director, so…

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

To be fair you can make amazing movies and be a shit person

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In some cases it doesn't even make sense.

Why is Witcher so cut and lean? He hunts monsters. He's not going to maintain a diet while doing that. Dude should look like Vasily Alexeev or Dean Lukin.

[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Out of all the examples, you picked one where they literally give him super steroids to hunt monsters more effectively.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

It’s a lot of things. It’s a diet so strict and regimented it controls your life, same for exercise, and then they dehydrate for days. Is the water why random person on Lemmy doesn’t look like that? No, that’s because nobody looks like that unless it’s their job to look like that or it’s their only hobby or they have serious mental health issues pushing them that way. But it is dangerous for most people to even try because yeah it involves a lot of risky decisions and they don’t even look like that all the time

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

None of those guys have a healthy hard-worker or warrior body. They all have a dehydrated, 1% body fat gym bro body, just like Hollywood wants us to believe a healthy man looks like.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

blessed be the thor design from God Of War

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

actually none of them look particularly dehydrated. They just look like they're straight from a good pump. Dehydrated would leave them very veiny, like, prominently.

This is what dehydrated looks like

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Except the actors have talked about it.

I remember Hugh Jackman specifically talked about it in an interview as part of why he wanted to stop being wolverine. He was getting tired of the unhealthy regime of dehydrating to look as clean cut as possible.

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've gone longer than 3 days without water and I look nothing like those guys. Wtf?

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Have you tried hiring a personal trainer and using 'supplements'?

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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This feels like "I'm 14 and this is deep" content.

It's obvious that all Hollywood, social media and advertising models are not the average person. Are there really people that think men would be exempt from this? I doubt many.

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[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Apparently no one is allowed to have body hair.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's weird is that hairy chests were considered the sexy style in the 70's and 80's, and then it suddenly changed. I blame Arnold.

[–] GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Looking at what the young uns are wearing these days (and the resurgence of mullets), I would put money on chest hair coming back within the next decade.

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Cavill almost always has chest hair. The only time I can recall seeing him without chest and stomach hair is in The Tudors.

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

abandon all hope ye who enter this comment section

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

did you expect "muscle & fitness" to have hugh jackman with the jumper on, or "good housekeeping" to have him tearing apart chores with claws?

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[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 15 points 2 years ago

Robert Pattinson's physique as Batman was criticised by the mainstream (mostly by incels) as not being ripped and is skinny, even though experts say his body in "The Batman" is the most realistic built most men would be able to achieve.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In case anyone is hoping to achieve the left side of the picture remember every one of the is on PEDs

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

But aquaman is from the water.

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