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Weird take but it seems like the one most consequential things modern society and captialism itself took from people of its interior is the idea that our bodies can actually do things.

There are absolutely people who look like this without stepping foot in the gym or paying a single iota of attention to what they eat, but it's only because of their very specific lifestyles. You won't find them in the west, but in places like Africa you will see guys who are admittedly not as big as him but just as lean and with more lean muscle mass than the average westerner. I've been to South Africa and seen guys who were miners for a living and ate a diet that was high in lean protein like eggs, fish and poultry and do physical labor all day and walk around at like 8% body fat. It's not because they care about their appearance and count calories etc, but just because they're too poor to afford addictive processed foods, are extremely active by necessity and by trial and error realize that lean protein makes you feel full for longer.

This is completely unrealistic in the west and many other places though because our diets are made up of processed foods stripped of micronutrients and packed with the addictive compounds that make us want to consume more (sugar, fat and salt). Also in the west, our lives are just less active. I work in construction and while I am definitely more active than the average westerner, it's nothing compared to people in underdeveloped countries. For instance, obesity wasn't a huge thing in Mexico until food corporations expanded there and got everyone hooked on processed garbage, and now they're fatter than the US. Corporations have stolen our health from us and got us addicted to unhealthy food.

The worst instances of toxic masculinity I've ever received has been from women.

Plenty of assholes out there :shrug-outta-hecks:

I've seen more than a few mayos pretending to be creepy Indians, not that creepy Indian people obviously don't exist

I'd wager it's pretty common on here too

I think it's just terfs.

Pretty infamous for their lack of biological knowledge as well

sometimes some women are in fact bad. like they believe wrong silly things on occasion. the internet makes this phenomenon more frequent among people of all genders.

I'm sure there are a few men pretending on there but I have come across women before who genuinely hold these kinds of views. They're super rare for sure but let's face it so are incels and there's enough of them to form various communities.

One thing I've noticed in both is they seem to have developed this really weird and toxic ideology that really does seem to have a lot of its roots in the increasing commodification of everything including relationships. I'm not saying it's the biggest cause or even a cause at all but a lot of the weirder shit seems to almost be an attempt to use something like I dunno a marketing algorythm or something.

All on steroids too and also prob either finasteride or hair plugs

• Extremely upset at people radically changing their body image

• Honestly believes you can develop six-pack abs by "picking up a few things"

Amazing.

That's not only years of heavy lifting, but also an extreme calorie deficit maintained for likely months to trim down to an impossibly cut look.

Now it's your turn to post a blistering hot take