Kinda shows how fucked up our beauty standarts got…
Peak male form
Submitted 10 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Wutchilli@feddit.org 10 months ago
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
I wonder how well a 1950s Mr Universe Sean Connery would do today?
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
Kinda shows beauty standards are completely arbitrary and context dependent.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Every one of them looks like Gollum’s uncle, what are you saying
scoobford@lemmy.zip 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Rusty@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
thank you
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I fucking knew it
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What does it say? There’s no reject all and I can’t be arsed unchecking then manually.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months 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 10 months ago
Why does the guy on the left look like he’s wearing a collar made of skin?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
They all look a little weird, like some old time photo editing was done.
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
That’d be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 months ago
It’s his tan line. None of those guys ever saw the sun without wearing a suit.
Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months 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 10 months ago
I don’t understand, why would you do that? Sounds lame
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
What’s wrong with them?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
They don’t look like a modern social media influencer
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
Don’t worry, we all look the same when we are dead.
owsei@programming.dev 10 months ago
Fuck it.
today’s freezing, but I’ll go to the gym too :)
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
The oldest dude there is 23 years old
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
#2 making a bold statement to go sans mustachio.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Second from the right is just Freddie Mercury
quinkin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Who? Mr. beast?
Redex68@lemmy.world 10 months ago
#4 With that dazzle camouflage, ready for naval engagements
mechoman444@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One dude without a mustache lines in a world of regrets and self loathing.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m surprised they even let him enter the contest.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Without a snappy stache, he’s got no shot at all.
50shadesofautism@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
That looks like tom hanks kid
niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Some of these guy are packin’ some serious heat!
glibg@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Loving the dazzle camo shorts on #4
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Oh nice new avatar
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months 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 10 months ago
They actually do.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I see the sausage vendor is in town this week!
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
#2 has an obvious boner
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I’m not sure. The shape and position are weird. But so are his pants.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That’s a wiener
Pnut@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Fat Tom Hanks is the only one without a moustache. He didn’t stand a chance.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 10 months ago
He doesn’t need a moustache when he’s sporting that gargantuan tallywhacker.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Fine young lads
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Cover up those bellybuttons, boys
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sluts
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Do they even lift?
random_character_a@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Enough to beat your ass in fisticuffs
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Feh. I could easily beat off all of these men.
SirQuack@feddit.nl 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
*octothorp
remon@ani.social 10 months ago
Seems to be a problem with the app you’re using, not a general lemmy thing.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
#4 is on the bleeding edge of fashion, while #6 doesn’t give a damn.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You guys said no mustaches! Oh come on!
TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Who won?
FloatingAlong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Whoever #2 was thinking about.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Or a dirt tan from heavy industry and coal.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Considering historic mens clothing the latter isn’t implausible.
ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Just asked something about this, the left one looks like he has a shirt collar.
atlien51@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Dafuq? Why them boxers so big
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
They must all be named George cause they are absolutely gorg.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’ve got those horizontal lines to accentuate the boys.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
#2 is packing.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 10 months ago
has to, as he has no beard.
toynbee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So he can’t sing a shanty?
CeaselessBanana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No tash = big member… That explains a lot…
bizza@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I was about to comment that #2 either has as raging boner or it’s just like that
TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 months ago
That guy is full staff.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“No, no, I don’t have a boner! It’s just like that!”
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He could fuck himself in the belly button.