Because I want to.

Alex - 17 I think I'm pretty funny

[museum-of-idiots]

I have never identified with anyone as much as I do with this man

[etica]

[a-trex]

[sotc]

us: reverts blue background changes by external means bc our eyes hurt from the severe contrast of color

tumblr: sorry we didn’t make it clear that this was not an option you can avoid :)  *breaks everything on purpose*

[sotc]

annnnd apparently they even banned the person who made the tampermonkey script for distributing a helpful fix in the first place. way 2 go, staff.

[memewhore]

[adoranion]

[grimeclown]

im joking off

[grimeclown]

busting a gut

[stinkbuks]

I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust

[cryptid-sighting]

[tastefullyoffensive]

They look so content. (via thedocholliday)

[cocainesocialist]

lilith here making the iron clad case for free public transport

[welcometonegrotown]

[hummingbirdbandit]

Professor: You should be teaching yourself the material.

Me: Then why, pray tell, am I paying you?

[rightbackheretohauntyou]

student: i really don’t understand the material. can you explain it?

professor who also doesn’t understand the material: oh haven’t you heard?

[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

[comtessedebussy]

The above are all totally valid points, but I feel like I should add that there’s another version of this post going around, which makes the excellent point that objectification implies a power dynamic, so quite honestly, you cannot compare women being sexualized as objects to men being forced into these training regimens, which are unrealistic *power fantasies* - which is decidedly not the same as being a sex object. With that said, the fact that male actors have to nearly kill themselves for the muscle definition is just….ick.

[managerie76]

Agree. The women are made into sex object for men while the men are power fantasies for men. 

The actors are not forced to do this because female audiences require it. We like Hugh Jackman soft and in musicals.

[reesa-chan]

I would also argue that all of the above is true - both the horrific unrealistic body expectations and the power dynamics - but there’s also a differentiation in how universal these truths are. Men are expected/required to do these kinds of things for a specific subset of roles. It’s unhealthy and problematic, but there’s an element of choice regarding which roles to go out for and whether or not to accept them. I feel like women are forced into this mold for almost every role. It’s pretty close to impossible to make a living in the film industry as a woman without subjecting yourself to these unrealistic and unhealthy standards.

[gahdamnpunk]

[amaranthinedraco]

he fucKING ACED IT

[jupiterinthe7th]

[blackqueerblog]

I’m not gonna watch this for more than an hour 😍😍😍😍

[justgot1]

❤️❤️❤️

[fullpraxisnow]

Math proves that capitalism sucks and that capitalists are greedy.

[brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2]

So he gave millions and you gave $40 and feel like you’re doing more?

[pebbleofgod]

[waitineedaname]

your anxiety when you accidentally make one (1) person minorly unhappy

[muffyblogs]

Do you ever cycle through the same 4 apps on your phone over and over again and feel like a tiger pacing its cage at the zoo

[teratomarty]

If you’re doing this, it is because you, like the tiger, need enrichment and variety in your life. May I suggest cramming just a whole bunch of raw hamburger into a pumpkin and rolling it around your enclosure?