Kinda shows how fucked up our beauty standarts got…
Peak male form
Submitted 1 month ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Wutchilli@feddit.org 1 month ago
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Bigorexia is a real thing nowadays. The male body standard inflation on social media is just wild… unless you’re on gear, cut down to 6% body fat and in good lighting you’d get ratio’d into oblivion
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know those words, but I don’t think they’re being used in a manner to which I’m accustomed.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wonder how well a 1950s Mr Universe Sean Connery would do today?
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wish more people would be open about it. Alan Ritchson is one of the few Hollywood celebrities that has candidly spoken about his use of exogenous testosterone to prepare for his role as Reacher, but clearly so many others are getting help. I’m in my late 50s trying to add muscle mass, and it’s a huge challenge. I’d say that I’m better off than all of the men in this 1919 photo, but not by that much.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Kinda shows beauty standards are completely arbitrary and context dependent.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every one of them looks like Gollum’s uncle, what are you saying
scoobford@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
They’re saying that our current ideas of male beauty have been warped heavily by drugs and plastic surgery such that we consider naturally attractive men to look unremarkable.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If anything, it shows how naive and credulous we became. Old photos with completely made up rubbish captions are now a staple of social media.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Rusty@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
thank you
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I fucking knew it
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What does it say? There’s no reject all and I can’t be arsed unchecking then manually.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we’ve found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest.
The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph’s origins.
In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned “Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910,” which translates roughly to “men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910.”
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why does the guy on the left look like he’s wearing a collar made of skin?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
They all look a little weird, like some old time photo editing was done.
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’d be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 month ago
It’s his tan line. None of those guys ever saw the sun without wearing a suit.
Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
People used to do this weird thing called going outside. Believe it or not, they’d spend most of their waking hours doing this weird habit and they were also typically fully dressed too. It was considered scandalous to be caught outside not fully clothed. So the deadly laser that is our Sun would fry their uncovered face much faster than the skin beneath their clothes.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t understand, why would you do that? Sounds lame
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I spend copious hours in the gym because I never ever want to look like this. I was thinking about skipping today because it’s raining, so thanks for the motivation.
d7sdx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What’s wrong with them?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
They don’t look like a modern social media influencer
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I would describe it as skinny fat but these guys are not fat, so I think the problem is that they have very little muscle all around.
TL903@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Don’t worry, we all look the same when we are dead.
owsei@programming.dev 1 month ago
Fuck it.
today’s freezing, but I’ll go to the gym too :)
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hardest thing is getting there. Once you are in you kinda forget you didn’t want to go. Except when you don’t and you half ass it. But doing a little bit is better than doing nothing is what I say.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 1 month ago
The oldest dude there is 23 years old
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
#2 making a bold statement to go sans mustachio.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Second from the right is just Freddie Mercury
quinkin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who? Mr. beast?
Redex68@lemmy.world 1 month ago
#4 With that dazzle camouflage, ready for naval engagements
mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One dude without a mustache lines in a world of regrets and self loathing.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m surprised they even let him enter the contest.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Without a snappy stache, he’s got no shot at all.
50shadesofautism@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That looks like tom hanks kid
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some of these guy are packin’ some serious heat!
glibg@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Loving the dazzle camo shorts on #4
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Oh nice new avatar
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
The stripes are making my brain do that thing where when the image moves ever so slightly, it appears that their pants are vibrating.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
They actually do.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 month ago
[off topic?]
I watched a Steve McQueen movie a few weeks ago [The Thomas Crown Affair.] There’s a scene where Steve and Faye Dunaway are lounging in a steamroom. When the movie came out, McQueen was considered one of the most virile men in Hollywood. Compared to today’s standards, he looked kinda scrawny.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 month ago
#2 has an obvious boner
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
I’m not sure. The shape and position are weird. But so are his pants.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s a wiener
Pnut@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Fat Tom Hanks is the only one without a moustache. He didn’t stand a chance.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 month ago
He doesn’t need a moustache when he’s sporting that gargantuan tallywhacker.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Fine young lads
ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I see the sausage vendor is in town this week!
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Cover up those bellybuttons, boys
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sluts
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Do they even lift?
random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Enough to beat your ass in fisticuffs
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Feh. I could easily beat off all of these men.
SirQuack@feddit.nl 1 month ago
ITT: people who start screaming because they don’t realise the
#at the start of a line has special meaning, and turns it into a heading.Stamets@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s only supposed to turn it into a heading when there’s a space between the hashtag and the heading text. If it’s doing it immediately after the hash, that’s an issue with your client. All the comments here look fine.
#Thisshouldjustbenormalsize
This shouldn’t be
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
*octothorp
remon@ani.social 1 month ago
Seems to be a problem with the app you’re using, not a general lemmy thing.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
#4 is on the bleeding edge of fashion, while #6 doesn’t give a damn.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You guys said no mustaches! Oh come on!
TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Who won?
FloatingAlong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Whoever #2 was thinking about.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
The heads seem photoshopped on to the bodies. Or did the skin tone of all their faces just differ that wildly from their bodies’ back then?
Zatore@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I think they wore longer clothes with higher colors back then. They would have a sunt tan from being outside, but only on their head.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Or a dirt tan from heavy industry and coal.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Considering historic mens clothing the latter isn’t implausible.
ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Just asked something about this, the left one looks like he has a shirt collar.
atlien51@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Dafuq? Why them boxers so big
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
They must all be named George cause they are absolutely gorg.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’ve got those horizontal lines to accentuate the boys.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
#2 is packing.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
has to, as he has no beard.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So he can’t sing a shanty?
CeaselessBanana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No tash = big member… That explains a lot…
bizza@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I was about to comment that #2 either has as raging boner or it’s just like that
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 month ago
That guy is full staff.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“No, no, I don’t have a boner! It’s just like that!”
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He could fuck himself in the belly button.