[quote]Seouldier wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
I saw a TV segment on body image where they went to a school and tried to “de-sensitize” kids to unrealistic standards set by media and advertising, etc.
Part of it involved showing pudgy adolescent boys photos of ‘traditional’ male models (meaning muscular) and pics of the new breed of underfed emo clotheshorses…
The truly retarded part was that the kids were being led by the nose through a debate which put muscular builds in a negative light (comments were made on the personalities of each model based on their look: “you have to be really vain to work out that much”; “it’s unattainable”) and the skinny builds were promoted (“he looks far more down to earth”).
^ All that was to make the kids feel better about themselves. Which in and of itself is no bad thing, but these weren’t airbrushed like the rest of the photos they discussed.[/quote]
…which is just as bad as women creaming over a Brad Pitt photo but then claiming they want that on a guy who spends zero time maintaining it.
Somehow, society has gained the idea that anyone who would spend significant time in the gym is “self centered, vain, and possibly dumb”…all while glorifying some of the most shallow, vain and self centered celebrity images, including people who are famous just for existing.
I mean, why is anyone talking about the Hilton sisters?
Look, none of this is new to any of us. I bet most guys here have had issues with some past girlfriend we either directly dated or knew indirectly acting like time in the gym was unimportant and belonged to her.
All I have learned in life…is that women want EVERY FUCKING THING.
They want IT ALL…right the fuck now.
They want the guy with great looks, great personality, great bank account…who only has time for her, only thinks about her, only lives for her…who is funny and makes her friends jealous all at the same time…but who puts no effort into the gym because he must have all of this NATURALLY (whatever the fuck that means).
It is about as realistic as a guy saying, “I want a girl who looks like Beyonce…but I want her to look like that first thing in the morning with no makeup…and no watching what she eats…and no air brushing!”
It’s bullshit nonsense for any guy on the planet to live his life concerned about what unrealistic people want from them.
Be your fucking self.
If you are a gym rat, be that. Any ho who can’t grasp that can move on.
Any dude still worried about what all women want is likely too inexperienced to realize they don’t even know what they want…so the best way to be happy, is to find out who you are…love that person, find out all of the strengths of that person and all of the weaknesses…and work on improving those… and tell everyone else to eat a dick if they don’t like it.
Who cares what the average woman wants if they don’t even know?[/quote]
You give a lot of great advice but this is by far my favorite thing you have ever posted.[/quote]
Boom goes the dynamite.
