Or maybe there are people out there that realize the old adage when it comes to the male physique, "Big, shredded, or natural, pick two. You can't be all three."

Male appearance standards have gotten to a ridiculous place. There are a lot of people out there that see a dude like Christian Bale do The Machinist, then build up over 60 pounds of muscle in just a year to do Batman Begins, and they say, "That's the kind of man I want," or, "That's the kind of physique I want to have." They have no idea that he's cycling steroids, or hormones at the very least. That this sort of thing is everywhere in actors, it's everywhere in male modeling and bodybuilding, it is fucking everywhere these days.

There is no universal standard for beauty in women. I know that a lot of women like to pretend that there is, but that's bullshit. There are so many men who like women in a size 4-10. There are so many men that like women size 10+. They like big tits, they like small tits, they like tall girls, they like girls with fat asses, they like girls with small asses. "Chubby chaser", "itty bitty titty committee", whatever the physical package, chances are there are men, a lot of probably good looking men to boot, that are into it. For guys, though, there is pretty much one universal standard for appearance, and as we move forward in an increasingly-shallow pop culture age, that standard is becoming more and more ridiculous and moving farther and father away from the average guy.

Even outside of talking about things like PEDs, referring back to the silly Clemson article from the college sophomore that started this whole thing, you know how hard it is for most guys to have abs and even touch beer? And all of that, and every one of these "omg dad bod is sexist" response articles, supposes that men everywhere have this expectation for the size 0 "standard" in women, when they don't. That's just women assuming.