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[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 112 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

They're not "muscle hunks", but half of the people in this picture are definitely much above average in muscle mass.

There are no opinions/personal experience necessary here. Research has quite clearly shown that a decent amount of muscle, more than average, but not by a lot, not an outrageous "muscle hunk" amount, is the most attractive sexually.

Of course this doesn't hold true for all women, tastes differ. And as well, muscle is not the most important thing in male attractiveness. Male attractiveness is a mix of very many things.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

Pedro is also masculine as fuck.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Yeah most of those guys are fit as fuck (except jack black, sorry buddy). This post is talking about people trying to get like Arnold Schwarzenegger but to get a body like any of these guys requires serious gym time.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Henry Cavill is a muscle hunk, tho.

But he's also a big nerd so that kinda makes up for it.

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.social 94 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The only non-muscle hunk in this image is Jack Black (famously the poster boy for unconventionally attractive man, where the picture chosen is a younger and skinnier one), Joseph Quinn, and mayyybee Jeremy Allen White.

The nerve of putting Orlando fucking Bloom as Legolas or Cavill as The Witcher as "little". This disconnect is unfathomable.

This meme really gets the rise out of me because I agree with the sentiment but the example they chose are so bad.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago

Yeah fucking hell Henry Cavill is literally superman omg

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[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

There was an old reddit thread were one woman argued that women arent attracted to "gym rats" and used Henry Cavill as an example of a man with a physique who doesn't spend hours in the gym everyday.

People who doesn't do resistance training have a negative amount of knowledge of what it takes to get in "shape".

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I do "resistance training." I resist going to the gym, and eat cheese instead.

Body By Beecher's

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Henry Caville gets his physique through sheer willpower put into manifesting his dreams to one day be Captain General Trajann Valoris

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Henry Cavill? The guy who played Superman and Geralt of Rivia? Nobody can possibly think he got that body by sitting around. That's like saying guys don't think Lady Gaga wears makeup on stage. He's not just fit, he's built out.

Any actor is someone who is selling their looks as part of the package. However they look, it is a choice and they put effort into it. Even Jack Black.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But even he doesn't look like in man of steel on a Thursday morning. He looks like that after he got a good pump and not eating and drinking for days.
I'm still gay for cavill tho

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah it doesn't look like he had a mustache Photoshopped out in that photo

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IDK, i feel they're also missing the point that a lot of these guys are attractive as well and have the personalities for their characters written for them by various people (others have already mentioned that these men are generally all physically healthy, so I won't expand on that). If I could have an attractive face, and have my personality written by a couple of writers AND have girls read or watch that play out, I bet I or anybody in that scenario would get a bunch of girls. Ultimately, I also feel men working out is one of the simpler ways to appear more attractive, next to dressing well. Being funny or in general, having a very attractive personality is harder to develop when you compare it to working out and dressing well. Of course, dressing well and having a healthy body doesn't mean you will be attractive to all women, but it betters your chances.

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[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] casmael@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Wow I remember bloom being like 20 something or whatever. Tempus fugit.

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

He's literally training to play a professional wrestler in this picture. Starring alongside Zach Efron, who got even more swole.

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 35 points 11 months ago

Okay but Henry Cavill is simply unfair to the rest of humanity.

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I get it I was wrong, I have to be a muscle hunk OR Jack Black to be attractive

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago

yep. the only person here who isn't in personal-trainer levels of physical shape is jack black. I've just been re-watching the bear and apparently they skip the scenes where carmi is spending 3 hours a day in the gym

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, some of us cis straight guys have been resigned to the fact that we'll always be fat slobs for years now.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Not fat slobs. Big cuddly teddy bears.

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Markiplier in the center of diagram is funny as hell. And accurate.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'd who TF that is. Looks like Reanu Keeves to me.

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One of the more famous Youtubers.

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[–] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Super braindead take, men exercise for their own health and confidence. In the same way that women wear makeup, it may help attracting the opposite sex but we do it for ourselves. Also exercise is one of the most direct mechanisms for self improvement regardless of gender.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Uh, I have definitively heard a lot of men say their primary motivation to "getting buff" is to pick up women.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and I have definitely heard women repeat some common gender stereotype as well

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[–] Chriswild@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

It can be for women but attract women for unintended reasons. Confidence is attractive and if they get confidence through gaining muscle it still works.

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[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 20 points 11 months ago

Jack Black catching some stay bullets here.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Depressed middle age father here, and this tracks. I seem to get a lot of positive attention from women of all ages, and I refuse to believe that I'm good looking.

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If my spirit weren't broken, I'd have women climbing me like rhesus monkeys.

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[–] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

People magazine needs to correct their new sexiest man alive from Patrick Dempsey (which why in the first place) to Markiplier and issue a formal apology immediately.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

I thought Keanu was in the middle.
Markiplier works too.

[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What a man wants, can women just chill and let a man be happy?

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, famously men have had very few demands of women throughout history.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

I don't disagree, but also it isn't relevant. Either it's wrong or it's not, regardless of gender. People should be happy first.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

People who take fitness serious are literally cooks. The only way to make sure you know what you're eating is by cooking it yourself.

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You don't know many actual working cooks, do you?

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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I mean...if you consider baking a plain chicken breast and mixing a protein shake to be cooking, then I agree.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

TIL throwing Mrs. Dash on a chicken breast and putting it on my George Foreman Grill makes me a cook!

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I haven't even seen people succed at getting hunks with that kind of motivation. If you don't do it for yourself, you set youself up for failure.

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