Just last night my sister explained to me what a "muffin top" is, so it was rather bizarre today to read about muffin tops in the news, and how men are now using girdles to hide them. The "mirdles" are like compression tank tops -- designed to not only tuck in the tummy, but also any male boobs (you know, the kind overweight men get).
What's next? I guess we should take a look around the women's lingerie department to see what men might be wearing soon. How about padded shirts? Men can just slip on some fake muscles in the morning. Might come across like a Halloween super-hero costume, but perhaps not if it were covered up with a long-sleeve button-down shirt. How about some padded briefs or boxers? They could have butt-shaping contours in the back, and fake bulges in the front. Then women can become as disillusioned about men's bodies as men are about women's, expecting perfection.
After men get used to all these new features in clothes, then they can start getting $12,000 muscle implants from the plastic surgeon, to go along with butt implants, tummy tucks, eyebrow transplants, and penile implants. Pretty soon everyone will be as perfect -- and as plastic -- as Barbie and Ken.
Really, in the absence of some disability that hinders exercise, there are three choices available to us all: 1) stay as we are, and accept the imperfections; 2) disguise imperfections and create new "perfect" parts with special clothing and plastic surgery; or 3) dig deep and find the willpower to become the fittest and healthiest we can possibly be, and accept those parts that cannot be changed with proper diet and exercise -- cherish the fact the parts are there and functional.
Personally, what I find attractive about a fit person is the healthy habits and lifestyle that lead to such fitness. One can really admire a person who has the discipline to eat right and the energy and focus to work out regularly to achieve a trim and muscular physique. Getting fake fitness doesn't reflect much of anything except a lazy person who wants a shortcut. Getting fake sexual parts speaks to me of a shortage of self-esteem, since I know of too many women who, e.g., got fake boobs because they didn't like their body, and then after acquiring "perfect" breasts still did not like their body, and even after multiple such surgeries still did not like their body. Is this a sign people are craving love and affection from others? Or is what they really need a bit of self-love and self-discipline?
From WHAS11.com:
What's next? I guess we should take a look around the women's lingerie department to see what men might be wearing soon. How about padded shirts? Men can just slip on some fake muscles in the morning. Might come across like a Halloween super-hero costume, but perhaps not if it were covered up with a long-sleeve button-down shirt. How about some padded briefs or boxers? They could have butt-shaping contours in the back, and fake bulges in the front. Then women can become as disillusioned about men's bodies as men are about women's, expecting perfection.
After men get used to all these new features in clothes, then they can start getting $12,000 muscle implants from the plastic surgeon, to go along with butt implants, tummy tucks, eyebrow transplants, and penile implants. Pretty soon everyone will be as perfect -- and as plastic -- as Barbie and Ken.
Really, in the absence of some disability that hinders exercise, there are three choices available to us all: 1) stay as we are, and accept the imperfections; 2) disguise imperfections and create new "perfect" parts with special clothing and plastic surgery; or 3) dig deep and find the willpower to become the fittest and healthiest we can possibly be, and accept those parts that cannot be changed with proper diet and exercise -- cherish the fact the parts are there and functional.
Personally, what I find attractive about a fit person is the healthy habits and lifestyle that lead to such fitness. One can really admire a person who has the discipline to eat right and the energy and focus to work out regularly to achieve a trim and muscular physique. Getting fake fitness doesn't reflect much of anything except a lazy person who wants a shortcut. Getting fake sexual parts speaks to me of a shortage of self-esteem, since I know of too many women who, e.g., got fake boobs because they didn't like their body, and then after acquiring "perfect" breasts still did not like their body, and even after multiple such surgeries still did not like their body. Is this a sign people are craving love and affection from others? Or is what they really need a bit of self-love and self-discipline?
From WHAS11.com:
You may not even know it, but some of your male friends or male co-workers could be wearing a girdle.
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More and more men are turning to tummytucking, chest compressing, or body shaping underwear...
Dozens of websites now sell waist eliminators, chest compressors, 'mirdles', and 'manziers'. They go by several different names, but in the end they're 'girdles for guys'. Respectable publications like Time Magazine and The Wall Street Journal have written about them in recent issues. They aim to help hide the muffin top, love handles, moobs, man cans or whatever name you give to the fatty areas of your torso...
If you want to buy a body shaping garment you will pay anywhere from $20 to $110...And some garments are high tech and help your posture and blood flow as they help you look leaner.
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