SICK OF THE CURRENT MALE BEAUTY STANDARDS

    I was earlier catching up with popular gay news blog Towleroad when I saw a post about this guy who apparently is an important football player. I was refreshed and delighted to see the spotlight on a healthy young man and not your average steroids junkie with ridiculous muscles, bulging veins and scary six-packs.

    Then I read the comments and, to my (not big) surprise, I spotted some like these:

"Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! His body is nasty!!!!!"

"This guy is not hot, and his body is shit."

"Yuck, can't get into the GOP beefcake dudes, or in this case cake, since, I don't see any beef on this kid. More Tom Brady posts please, or tennis player, thanks :)."

"Sure, he's cute in a normal, straight guy kind of way, but he is NOT an underwear model. Sorry but underwear models are supposed to look like gym trawling body facists! It's called being a model. Models are supposed to represent the ideal. Like the David, classical Greek sculpture, yadda yadda yadda. And can we please quit the obsession with the straight guys already. It's nauseating. Give us some hot, gay boys and leave the straight ones alone. You never know what they're going to do."

"ZOMG He's like SOO hideous! I only find perfect people slighty attractive cause, ya know, Im a godly judemental queen."

etc. etc. And well, there were many that I'd agree with:

"You people saying "Ewww" are fucking crazy. This guy is hot, he's a sports hero, he's handsome and he has a body honed by actual athletic accomplishment, not narcissistic gym trawling.
I dunno, I love looking at hot guys like everyone else, but this is getting stupid. The obsession with being totally cut -- which is unsustainable except for only the most obsessed -- is ruining sex."

"I think he is cute. It's nice to see a normal body instead of some guy who spends most of his life living in a gym. I suppose all the magazines has made us expect 6 and 8-packs as the norm now. Me, I like the natural look. Would rather have a normal looking guy than a gym-bunny any day!"

   I've been thinking about writing this post for days and this thing just gave me the final push to do it. We alway hear about how wrong the female beauty standards are, with girls expected to be super skinny with big boobs, etc. but we don't seem to notice that male ideals, if not on the same degree, are also awfully wrong. At first thought you may say that the male ideal is a sportsman and that's a good thing, but the models we see and worship are beyond the sportsman, they're 20 and looking all buff like they're gonna explode. It's not healthy! Don't let them fool you, they are taking stuff to get that big that fast, that's not natural and I'm sick of everyone dismaying over body builders with alien six-packs, in fashion and everywhere else.
    You just have to look at any Men's Health cover. Are those men examples of a healthy men? I think they're repulsive! But apparently that's what's "hot" these days.

    Now, I want you to look at this video:

SAD!

    Oh and what about body hair? Apparently hair is nasty so men have to wax, shave and laser themselves to get rid of any hair even in their armpits. And yes, women have to do the same, but you can't compare women's body hair with men's. The real man is over, the plastic man is on.

    Well I'm not a pro-caveman either, if you have hair in your back, laser it, all I'm saying is men shouldn't be ashamed of features that are innate to their condition like hair and balding. Here, some pics of gorgeous hairy men:

    See? Hair doesn't make a guy cute or ugly! Key thing is not to let any defect make you insecure. To be attractive a guy should be smart, charismatic, nice, or any other thing that you have and can boost.

    Now, having said all that, I'm maybe as shallow as the next blonde girl, It's true that when I'm at a club I'm looking for the cute, but I can tell you that I'm so over muscles and players, I'm in for guys I can learn something from, that mean good, that can listen and reason. Beauty is so disposable, so futile and empty. The other day I went to the hospital [I fucked my right foot by walking with smaller shoes than my size, and I'm talking about not torturing oneself for beauty!] and the doctor... I wouldn't have noticed him at a night spot, but he was so nice and appealing I would've fucked him right there! Seriously, he was so owning the situation, so secure, so opened.

    Anyway, I know I'm not gonna change anything, mostly because nobody reads this blog, if my readership was half that of Perez Hilton we would be talking, but! I had to say it out loud and get it off my chest. So here I say it again:

STOP BODY FASCISM!!1!

Comments

[willdagr8]

Hey ya!
ok well I think that this is really an overrated issue. Its like "Gay men are superficial? No fucking way?!"
I think that just like straight guys we strive for an ideal that is truly unrealistic - but isn't it nice to look at?
In the end, in the club, in bed, its two people who connect. Its not about abs and a smooth butt hole. There are bears and there are twinks and there are average normal men that hook up all the time and are perfectly happy with how they look. Some aren't and starve and work out, but that is human nature - especially in the west where, what else are we going to do than the gym? Plus its a great place to hook up ;)

[Kendra]

I thought the same about the Men's Health cover, their really not healthy at all