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The Sebastopol Times, California, November 15, 1918

modernathenamd

People don’t change. Proof that we have people who are just as selfish and stupid as they were 102 years ago.

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problematicparrot

Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.

Source

ren-of-rationality

My god I love her.

mango-thot-deactivated20190520

I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God she’s RIGHT.

When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I’ve you’ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a “look”.

Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn’t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a “look”.

The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a “look”.

Why is this such a big deal? Because all these characters are considered physical goals for men. These are actual unobtainable physical standards for men. Male body image issues get swept under the rug so often that some people don’t even think they exist.

da-boy-o-kultur

You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carter’s actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted.

eric-coldfire

Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex.

guyveranimefan87-blog

If we are talking about unrealistic physical standards of male fitness given to us by movies, I would like to mention Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman here.

Yeah, he is ripped, isn’t he?

Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of “water weight”.

Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.

As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, “If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ‘Roll it!”

It’s the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.

According to experts, healthy body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables.

Fitness model and professional bodybuilder Helmut Strebl also known as “World’s Most Shredded Man” as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%…

… But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one’s body for longer periods of time.

I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then…

There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration…

And let’s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as “Megarexia” or “Bigarexia”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia

Yeah, it’s a thing, but it’s barely talked about, since it’s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorder…

So… Thanks Hollywood?

fierceawakening

I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this.

brunhiddensmusings

dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failure okay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says ‘thats not good enough’ and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting scenes without his shirt, after which he has to have recovery time before he is hospitalized because i am not joking about ‘one day away from organ failure’ thats the benchmark- look at chris hemsworth and process that he is told he isnt suitable for a shirtless scene without prepping for three days and nearly fainting

shipperwolf1

real feminism acknowledges the unhealthy standards that men are held to. radfems brush them off as non-existent

guys, feminism is for you, too. it’s for all of us.

archivistofnerddom

Unrealistic body images helps no one and actively hurts men too!!

iamcon-fu-sion

since the discussion of that they put henry cavill through for the witcher is floating around my blog, i want to add this too,.

one of the reasons producers get away with this in men and no one criticizes it is because we are fed the lie that this body type is 1) attainable and 2) healthy.

We know starving women down to skinniness is unhealthy, but you see an overmuscled man and you don’t immediately think dehydration.

pr1deandprejud1ce

i love this whole thread but uh

this IS feminism. being able to speak out about that? that’s the most feminist thing she could have done. don’t call it bullshit, because this is IMPORTANT. these men are being starved and dehydrated and basically just hurt over and over again so that people can drool over their muscles and no one (by which i mean the audience) realizes something is wrong. so don’t say that this isn’t feminism, because it is. it really, really is.

starkcontrasts

^^^

ghost-of-bambi

Remember when Zac Efron ate pasta in his Netflix show and cried afterwards?

Also that Natalie Dormer headline is 100% feminist thank you @crying-at-ikea for your service.

kuma-la-la

this comparison of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X-men (2000) vs. what I think is Days of Future Past (2014) always make me so sad, he looked like an actual human, and strong, in the first movie and then they turned him into…that.

madlori

All of this is good, but the most important thing to note is that THIS PRESSURE ON MEN ISN’T FUELED BY WOMEN’S DESIRES OR WHAT WE FIND ATTRACTIVE.

These super-shredded body images aren’t based on what women like. They’re based on what MEN like. They’re male power fantasies, not female sex fantasies. So this is just another hellish tab in the browser window of the patriarchy.

saywhat-politics

no-chill-at-all

wildlyannoyingdoofus

These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:

“Okay, and who’s the president?”

“Obama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him… what’s his name…”

“It’s okay, you know who he is.”

“Who’s the president?”

“*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhh…Orange… damn it what’s the fuck’s name….

“Yup, good enough.”

“And who’s the president,”

“Not fuckin’ Obama!”

“I feel ya.”

“Who’s the president- wait, nevermind you’re from Korea you said, right? So who’s-“

“Everybody knows that Trump-bitch.”

“Oh, well, alright then.”

5. (My personal favorite)

“Who’s the president?”

“Ew.”

“Good enough.”

epaulettes

My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been “ay dios mio” during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.

moodyehudi-deactivated20180519

lol me too , lady

emi--rose

One time I got “that orange fuck” from a very cute little old lady with urosepsis

nezumipi

I have - quite unintentionally - contributed to this phenomenon.

I was waking up from surgery in the post-op observation room, where they kept people before sending them off to the ICU. The nurse was talking to me as I was semi-awake, telling me that as soon as it was ready, I would be sent to room 2008.

I did not hear the word “room”.

I started trying to sit up and get out of bed (entirely unsuccessfully), shouting (mumbling forcefully), “He’s not president yet! I have to warn everyone!”

magimerlyn

That’s awesome. Thank you for trying to warn us

euphoria-my-love

i’ve been looking for this post for ages and it finally crossed my dash again

whatsgoodmentalhealth

(( *smiles* the post is back))

stackcats

Paramedics had to stop asking “who’s the prime minister?” in Australia because it changed so often that not knowing the answer wasn’t really all that indicative of anything.

One paramedic reported receiving the answer “I haven’t watched the news today”.

notagiraffe

Favorite I’ve heard was “That sorry son of a bitch!”

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gertruderobinsonscat

I hope that “between the crematorium and the dildo store” becomes a famous saying for whenever a person has lost in the most pathetic and undignified way possible. Sort of like how we still use the phrase “crossing the Rubicon” two thousand years after the event.

crumplelush

Some guy on twitter described it as “being between a cock and a charred place”

liraelclayr

tinglingworld

I love how easy access to academic articles is. you just:

happen to stumble upon an interesting article on jstor via google

turn on and log into your uni’s vpn client

click through 5 pages on the library’s website to go to jstor through the secured university-paid access line

find out for some reason said article isn’t included in the university-paid jstor access

copy the article’s name in your library’s search engine

come up with no results

copy the author’s name into your library’s search engine

find the article!

click on “full text access”

have to log in to another university online system

find out it cancelled your search when logging in

start the search again

click on “full text access” again

cry in relief when the article actually opens and is downloadable

(optional) find out that the article wasn’t even all that helpful

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exigencelost

“Separating dangerous people from society” makes no sense as a justification for prisons because the prison is a part of society. The same is true for any carceral solution you dream up that you imagine will be “more humane” than current prisons. Wherever you put those people, whatever you do to them, they’re still part of society and so are you. The kidnapping, the captivity, the isolation, the dehumanization, that is something society is doing. You cannot separate yourself from it.

exigencelost

Even execution doesn’t remove people from society. The dead are not distinct from us. Our ancestors define us.

Once a person is born, they’re part of society, permanently. No undoing it. So we need to construct systems that can deal with that reality and can protect vulnerable people from harm in a way that is real, without wasting our resources on the self-destructive delusion that people can just be control-alt-deleted from the body politic

abhumanaex0-deactivated20220418

Was this…what anyone meant by that? I’d always thought they meant more or less keeping people quarantined such that they couldn’t hurt others, not some kind of idk ontological removal

exigencelost

It’s the same thing. To say “they can’t hurt others” doesn’t make any sense, because there are other people in the prison. The only way it makes sense is if you embrace what you’re calling an ontological removal, and accept that the people in the prison don’t count as people. Which is fundamentally absurd.

And the harm we do to people who are in prisons is us “hurting others.” Incarceration is itself a massive act of violence. There’s no harm reduction no matter how you slice it.

feministism

the-bright-path-deactivated2021

Love it

myrrhdotcom

good night. sleep tight. don’t let the bed bugs bite. tonight. imma fight. till we see the sunlight. tik tok. on the clock. but the party don’t stop.

guerrillatech

pennie-dreadful

She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter's lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald's coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.

deathtalksaboutlife

Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter's lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.

Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns--which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer--within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn't stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald's coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds' justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the "frivolous" lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.

Classy.

Never, ever take a corporation's side over a private citizen when lawsuits are involved.

thebiscuiteternal

She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman's life were a miserable hell because McDonald's was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.