Kalkaline,

You don’t have to live up to Hollywood standards, you just have to stop holding everyone else up to Hollywood standards. Just look at day time talk shows, those people have no problem finding a partner, and the only reason they end up on those shows is because they have no sense of shame.

Smokeydope,
@Smokeydope@lemmy.world avatar

abandon all hope ye who enter this comment section

inb4_FoundTheVegan,
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

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.

erranto, (edited )

Same women and men who criticize those unrealistic overdosed body types, would either wet their pants if one of those man proposed to them, or are wishing to achieve those results themselves. you can’t resist animalistic urges. you won’t believe the amount of gyms I’ve seen pop up in my city since the arrival of Instagram almost a 3000% increase. and everyone you talk to has become a protein intake expert.

curiousPJ,

Not seeing the issue here, that’s ju5T DAD b0d. /s

pinkdrunkenelephants,

As if the fact that it happens to men means it doesn’t matter if it happens to women. “You, too” is now a valid form of argument.

🤦 You all are a bunch of kindergartners, I swear.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT,

Sure well defined muscles are aesthetically pleasing, but not nessa to be considered hot by most of the people you’ll date

Anticorp,

Oh everyone I know would love to date that. They just wouldn’t love the time and commitment required to build and maintain that.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT,

Yeah I’m sure many of us would if it was just a pill you took lol

Cringe2793,

You really think so?

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT,

Varies by person but yeah. Look at all the bears and bookish nerds that people fawn over

Lesrid, (edited )

Very true, in my experience lots of women like the idea of strength from big muscles but don’t really care to see the striated muscle fibers in a cut look. Hell some are turned off by the vasculature of my hands.

EDIT: Guys in comic books are ripped for the dudes reading them. I imagine the same is true for movie stars.

ShortFuse, (edited )

Nessa? We channelling Jar Jar Binks now? (All in good fun, OP)

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT,

Haha meesa see what you mean. An old friend used to say it and I just like the sound of it

ILikeBoobies, (edited )

Really should be a legal requirement for a normal BMI to appear in media, then they wouldn’t be able load up on steroids

Rediphile,

But that would also eliminate all obese people from the media. Which is like 30%+ of the population.

ILikeBoobies,

And the massively underweight that women are supposed to aspire to

Whichever way you skew it, unrealistic bodies shouldn’t be there

Sunfoil,

That would be a side benefit of an otherwise bad idea.

andros_rex,

BMI is not a measure of health. It is a statistical tool.

Slatlun,

To further illustrate your point, most of the men pictured are likely ‘obese’ by BMI standards

ILikeBoobies, (edited )

Yes, welcome to the conversation

We aren’t talking about the health of these moviestars on roids, we are talking about the effects they have on viewers’ self image

madcaesar,

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

hark,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

But aquaman is from the water.

foggianism,

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,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

blessed be the thor design from God Of War

jpreston2005,

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,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

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.

jpreston2005,

yeah that’s why I used hugh jackmans wolverine as an example of what an unhealthy dehydrated body looks like.

These other guys aren’t dehydrated. They just look swole from getting a pump on directly before the scene was shot.

I doubt they’re even on PEDS. These body types are 100% attainable if you put in the effort and sustain it.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,
jpreston2005,

While Dr. Schroeder refrains from explicitly mentioning specific Hollywood actors whom he suspects of using performance enhancers

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,

I’m going with the doctor, rather than the random guy on Lemmy who provides no reference, just opinion.

jpreston2005,

that’s literally what the dr gave. an opinion. Also, I’ve been to medical school and have been bodybuilding since I was 10.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,

A doctor’s opinion.

I fight bears and my girlfriend lives in Canada.

You can write whatever you want here but to believed you need reasoned arguments and references.

jpreston2005,

ok, be wrong in whatever fashion that agrees with you, then.

JadenSmith,

I myself managed this, and knew a bunch of folks that also did, about 15 or so years ago (trying to get back into it, however my health took a few turns since then). Then again I was taking supplements, such as Jack3D at the time (which has been banned for some time since), and wonder if those contributed to it.

Thcdenton,

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

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

dad bod is still sexy, lots of people find that actively sexier

Arthur_Leywin,

Maybe for relationships but I’d be mad if Superman came out with bellyfat because that ruins the whole “Super” man idea. He’d just be Man…

15liam20,
Arthur_Leywin,

Well… he’s some form of super at least 🤣

fsxylo,

… You know this is probably still better than what DC is putting out now.

creditCrazy,
@creditCrazy@lemmy.world avatar

If I recall correctly isuku midoria had a six pack before he got his powers and he was considered weak at that point

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

i feel we have different definitons of dad bod, it doesn’t mean beer belly lol

it just means not having a sixpack and being able to see every single muscle fibre, it’s what henry cavill looks like when he isn’t filming a movie where he needs chiseled abs.

Arthur_Leywin,

I’m talking about that as well. Just because it’s Henry Cavill’s dad bod doesn’t mean I would want to watch a movie where Superman’s physique is that of a normal person.

S_204,

LoL. There’s a fish out there for ya if your line is strong enough.

watersnipje,

You look mediocre? Lucky.

Sorgan71,

I wanna suck these dudes nipples

5redie8,

Me, spending 6 months fighting with (and losing to) body dysmorphia but not knowing what it was, since I’m a man and no one told me:

Marebear,

As a woman it took 15 years before I found out what was wrong, at the time of finally seeing someone about it they said this was an average amount of time it takes to get help.

I hope you’re doing better now.

5redie8,

I hope you are too! My “advantage” was dating a trans person at the time, so it was a subject that came up relatively often. Just never considered a cis man having to deal with it.

klemptor,

Sorry to link to that place but here: Hugh Jackman on mens’ magazines vs womens’.

cloud_punk,

Do women not buy muscle and fitness and that’s why it’s a “men’s” magazine?

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

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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