IT’S 100% FUCKING ILLOGICAL TO EXPECT MEN TO HAVE THIS RIPPED SIX-PACK ABS AND BE SKINNY AND HAVE PERFECT SKIN AND FACIAL COMPLEXION! MEN ALSO EXPERIENCE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH OUR BODIES ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.
I’m bringing back the REAL post. For those of you who care enough about how body image issues effect BOTH MEN AND WOMEN and how ignoring men with eating disorders or who have depression or deep insecurities because of their body image is not just ignorant, but it’s horribly insulting. Making fun of this post means you are telling men who feel degraded that they should feel bad about themselves and that they don’t mean anything. For everyone who reblogged the posts that made fun of this original post, shame on you. I’m very disappointed. Please share the original because this is an important issue.
Also raised to my attention is I neglected to add people of color to this post, I am sorry for my negligence so I shall add bonus images here of unrealistic expectations for men of every race, I chose Men’s Health Magazine because it’s extremely popular in telling men how to look:
No, guys, you don’t understand. I just got so relieved seeing this original post again that I nearly cried.
Bless the blog that brought the original back!
Here’s the original post without some of you asshats changing the pictures
This is actually the VERY FIRST TIME I’ve seen the original post, which goes to show how quickly people turned it into a joke. I confess that I did laugh at some of the absurd replacement images in the other versions, and I feel guilty for that now because I, like many, was missing an extremely important message.
To all of my male followers who struggle with self-esteem: I support you too. Even though I’m really quiet and have a bad habit of going weeks or months without posting, I WILL be there for you if you come to me wanting to talk or just vent. That’s a promise.
Another thing to note that in all, ALL, of those pictures the men are actively flexing. And often such defenition for shoots is exaggerated by dehydration, airbrushing and photoshopping. That chiseled look isn’t a look you can acheive at rest without literal implants. Here are 2 examples of flexed vs relaxed:
And you know what? Dollars to doughnuts none of the above muscular looking guys are as strong as these men:
These are strongmen. These are the bodies of men that train for strength, not defenition. These guys can practically lift cars and drag trains.
So men of the world that get depressed about not looking like you just stepped off a magazine cover, relax. You don’t have to look like that. You are handsome, beautiful and fantastic the way you are.
To all my beautiful boys ❤ Please read and heed. You’re amazing, and you don’t have to look any particular way. This goes for transboys too. You’re handsome no matter what!!!
I never understood fashion. I have certainly developed my own style and have learned how to emulate certain “looks”, but I remember growing up and being baffled as to why I couldn’t look like other kids, no matter what I did.
Even if I had access to the same clothing options, I couldn’t assemble an outfit that looked like it fit in with what my classmates were wearing. I was never particularly concerned with “fitting in” because I knew it was unlikely to ever happen, but I didn’t get style and I didn’t know how girls managed to pick outfits that seemed “normal”. A classmate once offered to let me pick out anything I wanted from her closet and wear it for the day, but everything I chose was wrong for some reason I didn’t comprehend.
Fashion in adulthood is far less confusing. You can do pretty much anything you want and someone will appreciate it. When there *are* rules, they’re pretty clearly communicated – there are whole guides to dressing “business casual”. I wore a bird skull pin to my last job interview and got the job! But among children and teenagers, it seems like style is mysterious and all-important.
remember the sims 2 ds game which was nothing like any recognizable sims game and involved your character owning a hotel in the middle of a desert and occasionally giving fruit to a mummy so your power didn’t get shut off
I had this game and after like 2 months of playing, the mayor character in my game just completely disappeared, and I could still see his stats or whatever and his mood was always “in the mood”. He was trapped in a dimension of horniness.
Plume de Lynx 