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[–] BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently anyone can become a plastic surgeon because I'd never get any sleep if I made people look like that.

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (11 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 12 points 1 year ago

You look mediocre? Lucky.

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (15 children)
[–] quams69@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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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[–] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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:

[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year 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 35 points 1 year 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 12 points 1 year 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 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (6 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 1 year ago

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

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Actors careers really seem to be at the whim of industry insiders. Harvey Weinstein was able to get away with his shit for decades.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year 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 15 points 1 year ago

blessed be the thor design from God Of War

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (8 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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[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apparently no one is allowed to have body hair.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year 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 7 points 1 year 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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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year 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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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

abandon all hope ye who enter this comment section

[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year 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.

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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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