• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    It’s very fucked up what people perceived has healthy now.

    I’ve been in fairly decent shape my whole life but the amount of people, especially women, that tell me I’m too skinny and that I need to gain weight. Even when I’m actually closer to being overweight than underweight. Or how many times I seen someone point to someone on steroids or fat and say that they are healthy.

    It’s got to the point where kids need to be educated. I wouldn’t even be against weighing them. If they obese then it’s also child abuse and the parents fault.

    People think now if you can see/feel ribs or have any muscle tone (while not being a body builder) it means you’re underweight. That’s how humans are meant to be built! Go look at hunter gathers tribes or any active person pre the 90’s.

    Shit even dogs are fat nowadays.

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      9 months ago

      Or how many times I seen someone point to someone on steroids … and say that they are healthy.

      Gym bros be like

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          9 months ago

          Yeah that’s clearly not what we’re talking about here. Cortisol cream for eczema is a steroid, but nobody using it would say they’re on roids.

          We’re obviously talking about people who juice for muscle mass.

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    9 months ago

    Another great example is “Chunk” from the Goonies (1985). He was considered so fat that it was comic relief. Now you can walk through any Middle School in the United States and find dozens, if not hundreds, of kids that are MUCH larger!

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        9 months ago

        Yeah Hollywood ugly is a meme. Oh man she’s so ugly… But she’s like solidly at least an 8, just not wearing makeup and in unflattering clothes and lighting l

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      9 months ago

      I’m the flip side, Go back and watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Once you’re done cringing at the racism, think about the fact that Harrison Ford went on an intense weightlifting program for that movie, and was considered the most shredded leading man in Hollywood at the time. Actors using steroids has become so common that it has also skewed our perception of a normal fit guy’s body.