For context (if you’re a sane person and not extremely online), researcher William Costello recently did a simple, anonymous Twitter poll. Men and women were invited to rate pictures of British singer Olly Murs when he was huskier vs. when he really hit his gym goals and became legitimately shredded.
Thank you for voicing your opinion! I can’t speak on behalf of all men, but when I was younger, the majority of my understanding of what women liked was told to me by men
Folks like you help correct that!
I don’t mean to imply that any man needs to change to please women’s “type”, even more important is that the guy be in the shape HE wants, of course. Just like I am not going to get fake boobs to please some “ideal”, neither should guys worry about any ideal. Best to please yourself and let things settle out around that. I just think it is interesting when there’s a disconnect.
I do feel happy for guys who achieve the bodybuilder physique, it’s an accomplishment worth noticing. I don’t think guys are doing that to be sexy, they are doing it as a project for themselves. I just personally don’t find it more attractive than a baseline fitness, if that makes sense, and think I’m in the majority on that, not just of women but of people.
I didn’t read it like that!
The main issue is that I (and likely many others) work on something we don’t want only because some dude told us women like that. Exercise is one thing, but “8 pack abs” is another