3/assumptions, in short, there's reason to suspect even an image of human 'perfection' or w/e most fine repulsive at first glance will warp overall standards. {This is not to suggest there are no brakes on the system. There are, and competing forces, and hard bio limits, etc.)
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
I was thinking more mass audience - where I think the mechanism of body building is to drag standards toward max - but I’m sure there are subset of guys who watch wrestling or pass muscle mag in aisle and the light goes on.
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2/for the various factors of male phenotypic dominance (or attractiveness, or w/e); I think I gave the example of the difference b/t the cast of The 300 and the cast of a comparable 70's action movie, in terms of physique. (Similar dynamic for facial aesthetics, etc.).
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @dopaminendreams
Yes that’s a good comparison. I was going to say a Hitchcock leading man or prime Clint Eastwood vs now, where even Chris Pratt has to have abs
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Oh - a nice already-consecrated example might be the old NYT article on Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, arguing that the shots of him inaugurated new era of objectifying gaze turned on straight male body. Ok, i’m prob getting repetitive now.
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Replying to @paul_hundred @dopaminendreams
How infantile, lol. The supposed sophisticates in our country are so puritanical.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @dopaminendreams
It was one of those trend-type pieces where it’s obv the author just chatted with some friends at brunch and they all agreed Craig made them feel things and so there must be a story there.
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Replying to @paul_hundred @dopaminendreams
The George Costanza op-ed pitch: "I THINK IT MOVED, JERRY!"
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lol and next week’s column, An Ode to Mango
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