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I feel like for decades we have talked and warned about "impossible" body standards for women in professional modelling world, where they were all so skinny, bu

I feel like for decades we have talked and warned about "impossible" body standards for women in professional modelling world, where they were all so skinny, but nobody is raising much warnings about how much worse male body standards have become. Look at the insane difference of superheroes from the 60s/70s and in the 2000s. What's worse is how those "role physique roles" are blatant lies. People genuinely believe that Dwayne Johnson or Hugh Jackman (when preparing for his wolverine role) aren't under all kind of meds and steroids, and those actors lie about it as well. Obtaining a physique even vaguely similar in size and body fat % as what you see on TV and social media naturally is just not possible. But whereas society refused the ridiculous standards of female modelling and modelling itself moved from those 90s extremes family Disney movies are getting filled with drug filled actors setting impossible and ridiculous standards.

helboi4 3y ago
I was on a self improvement discord server that had a large amount of teenage boys a few years back. The conversations they had about diet and fitness reminded me of horrifying conversations I heard from teenage girls over a decade ago when I was a younger teen. Stuff like boys freaking out because they ate cake on their birthday and others telling them to restrict to repair the damage. It made me suddenly very very concerned about male body image.
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orthoxerox 3y ago
> People genuinely believe that Dwayne Johnson or Hugh Jackman (when preparing for his wolverine role) aren't under all kind of meds and steroids, and those actors lie about it as well. Even if they aren't on gear, looking shredded on screen is literally their full-time job. It's much easier to get shredded when you have a chef prepare all your meals according to your dietician's meal plan and you train with your personal trainer as often as your body can recover, with all three taxed as business expenses. It's very different from having a day job that expects you to sit in a chair for 40+ hours a day. All your training and nutrition happens on top of that.
- epolanski 3y ago
  Look at the physiques of Philip Ricardo Jr. or Ron Williams, even though that's their full time job to be body builders, even though they have the best combination of genetics, training, etc, even at their peak in competition mode they are still smaller than the likes of these actors and they are only that lean for few few weeks.
cultofmetatron 3y ago
I'll probably be downloaded or flagged just for saying this but they never will care. Men are considered expendable in our society. Men's issues are constantly downgraded in importance and the only time its ever really taken seriously in the public consciousness is when it affects women or society at large. ie: domestic violence or mass shootings.

helboi4 3y ago

I was on a self improvement discord server that had a large amount of teenage boys a few years back. The conversations they had about diet and fitness reminded me of horrifying conversations I heard from teenage girls over a decade ago when I was a younger teen. Stuff like boys freaking out because they ate cake on their birthday and others telling them to restrict to repair the damage. It made me suddenly very very concerned about male body image.

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orthoxerox 3y ago

> People genuinely believe that Dwayne Johnson or Hugh Jackman (when preparing for his wolverine role) aren't under all kind of meds and steroids, and those actors lie about it as well. Even if they aren't on gear, looking shredded on screen is literally their full-time job. It's much easier to get shredded when you have a chef prepare all your meals according to your dietician's meal plan and you train with your personal trainer as often as your body can recover, with all three taxed as business expenses. It's very different from having a day job that expects you to sit in a chair for 40+ hours a day. All your training and nutrition happens on top of that.

epolanski 3y ago
Look at the physiques of Philip Ricardo Jr. or Ron Williams, even though that's their full time job to be body builders, even though they have the best combination of genetics, training, etc, even at their peak in competition mode they are still smaller than the likes of these actors and they are only that lean for few few weeks.

cultofmetatron 3y ago

I'll probably be downloaded or flagged just for saying this but they never will care. Men are considered expendable in our society. Men's issues are constantly downgraded in importance and the only time its ever really taken seriously in the public consciousness is when it affects women or society at large. ie: domestic violence or mass shootings.