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    1. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      ... Because I gotta say, for most of the men at the U Illinois gym that's just not working.

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    2. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      In shower, I developed a theory suitable for a David Brooks column on the @nytimes editorial page: it's all about the white working class /1

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    3. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      (As everything is, these days. It's the only demographic that's worth writing about.) /2

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    4. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      Men (the part of the white working class that counts) long for the days when factory work was enough to support a middle-class family. /3

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    5. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      Does factory work involve leg strength? It does not. It's all about upper body strength. /4

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    6. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      (As a think-piece writer who's never worked in a factory, I do not believe brains matter for factory work.) /5

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    7. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      As people (i.e. white males) yearn for the days of olde ... /6

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    8. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      ... they naturally want to emphasize the characteristics that would make them seem a fit provider back then. /7

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    9. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      That is not "cut quadriceps" - that's for effete runners who don't get proper exercise at work. <etc. 600 words total and I'm done.> /end

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    10. Brian Marick‏ @marick 10 Sep 2017
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      [As an opinion writer of a Certain Age, I am like an evo-psych, but my "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" is what I remember as a kid

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      Peter Abrahamsen‏ @peidran 10 Sep 2017
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      Replying to @marick

      My assumption is that the torso is what men see of hot actors on TV and in movies, so that's what they emphasize.

      8:29 PM - 10 Sep 2017 from San Lorenzo, CA
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