They’re saying that our current ideas of male beauty have been warped heavily by drugs and plastic surgery such that we consider naturally attractive men to look unremarkable.
We’re getting into the body positivity discourse of a century old photo of dudes dressed like Beetlejuice’s day at the beach, so it pretty much goes without saying that we could all do with a gasp of fresh air.
Bigorexia is a real thing nowadays. The male body standard inflation on social media is just wild… unless you’re on gear, cut down to 6% body fat and in good lighting you’d get ratio’d into oblivion
It’s not one or the other. You can lift heavy things, not do steroids and not have skinny arms. You can also have skinny arms if you don’t want to lift heavy things and are perfectly content with them. But let’s not frame this as a binary choice because it isn’t.
My point was that I’m able to lift heavier things than most people would assume because I’m low body fat but I’m the same weight as someone who does have 15%bodyfat for my height.
Oh the 3% was not an expression… Al I can say is that I seriously doubt you really are 3% bf. If you are I hope you have all your affairs in order because you’re probably not long for the world.
I think I’d know if I was about to die but thanks… Maintaining my weight is easy it’s putting weight on that’s a pain. I’ve tried the super size me diet and besides raising my cholesterol I was in impacted. Long of the short I have underlying conditions that make processing and eating food a pain.
I just don’t eat sugar for the most part. Plenty of carbs and protein for slow metabolism but no sodas etc. for sugar crashes so I just have constant energy. I normally fast through breakfast and lunch eat a snack eat dinner eat another snack
And do you get good muscle recovery from this diet? I do a lot of running and cycling, eating (high carb) during my activities has really helped faster recovery and helped control cravings later.
Yeah you can generally tell, the neck and shoulders have more androgen receptors so they will typically have bulbous shoulders, oversized traps and a thick neck. Other giveaways are early balding, back acne, and rapid muscle gain. And huge mass monsters are pretty obvious. If you were really interested you could take a look at Jesse James West on YouTube. He’s about the peak muscularity someone can reasonably achieve without steroids outside of genetically gifted individuals. He interviews gym girls often and they rate him so low haha.
I wish more people would be open about it. Alan Ritchson is one of the few Hollywood celebrities that has candidly spoken about his use of exogenous testosterone to prepare for his role as Reacher, but clearly so many others are getting help. I’m in my late 50s trying to add muscle mass, and it’s a huge challenge. I’d say that I’m better off than all of the men in this 1919 photo, but not by that much.
Kinda shows how fucked up our beauty standarts got…
Every one of them looks like Gollum’s uncle, what are you saying
They’re saying that our current ideas of male beauty have been warped heavily by drugs and plastic surgery such that we consider naturally attractive men to look unremarkable.
I’m all for a low bar on male attractiveness - handsome is as handsome does. But, these fellas look barely this side of healthy
You may have spent too much time online.
We’re getting into the body positivity discourse of a century old photo of dudes dressed like Beetlejuice’s day at the beach, so it pretty much goes without saying that we could all do with a gasp of fresh air.
Let the Lemmings have their dreams and misinformation
Lol, fair.
Bigorexia is a real thing nowadays. The male body standard inflation on social media is just wild… unless you’re on gear, cut down to 6% body fat and in good lighting you’d get ratio’d into oblivion
I know those words, but I don’t think they’re being used in a manner to which I’m accustomed.
Steroids or nobody likes you
I’d rather have my 3% body fat “skinny arms” then synth arms.
It’s not one or the other. You can lift heavy things, not do steroids and not have skinny arms. You can also have skinny arms if you don’t want to lift heavy things and are perfectly content with them. But let’s not frame this as a binary choice because it isn’t.
My point was that I’m able to lift heavier things than most people would assume because I’m low body fat but I’m the same weight as someone who does have 15%bodyfat for my height.
Oh the 3% was not an expression… Al I can say is that I seriously doubt you really are 3% bf. If you are I hope you have all your affairs in order because you’re probably not long for the world.
I think I’d know if I was about to die but thanks… Maintaining my weight is easy it’s putting weight on that’s a pain. I’ve tried the super size me diet and besides raising my cholesterol I was in impacted. Long of the short I have underlying conditions that make processing and eating food a pain.
How can you form coherent thoughts at 3%? I would only be able to think about food
I just don’t eat sugar for the most part. Plenty of carbs and protein for slow metabolism but no sodas etc. for sugar crashes so I just have constant energy. I normally fast through breakfast and lunch eat a snack eat dinner eat another snack
And do you get good muscle recovery from this diet? I do a lot of running and cycling, eating (high carb) during my activities has really helped faster recovery and helped control cravings later.
Id doubt it I’m not strenioully exercising often just living
Exactly. The order is important.
I was able to ascertain the meaning, but I enjoyed your summary regardless!
You know what? I’m gonna not take steroids even harder.
Stereo?
They can tell just by looking that I don’t take steroids right? Like I don’t have to actually talk to them?
Yeah you can generally tell, the neck and shoulders have more androgen receptors so they will typically have bulbous shoulders, oversized traps and a thick neck. Other giveaways are early balding, back acne, and rapid muscle gain. And huge mass monsters are pretty obvious. If you were really interested you could take a look at Jesse James West on YouTube. He’s about the peak muscularity someone can reasonably achieve without steroids outside of genetically gifted individuals. He interviews gym girls often and they rate him so low haha.
Well, Mr. JJW’S results are more work than I want to do, so I don’t have to worry.
I wonder how well a 1950s Mr Universe Sean Connery would do today?
what in the fuck is that. I look better and I never workout. I work desk job 50+ hrs/week. I’m supposed to be mr universe :(
Do you look better than that, or do you look like you suck off a dude for discount tren?
That was… surprising.
I wish more people would be open about it. Alan Ritchson is one of the few Hollywood celebrities that has candidly spoken about his use of exogenous testosterone to prepare for his role as Reacher, but clearly so many others are getting help. I’m in my late 50s trying to add muscle mass, and it’s a huge challenge. I’d say that I’m better off than all of the men in this 1919 photo, but not by that much.
If anything, it shows how naive and credulous we became. Old photos with completely made up rubbish captions are now a staple of social media.
Kinda shows beauty standards are completely arbitrary and context dependent.