Comments on: The Final Triumph Of Metrosexuality: Men’s Tits More Popular Than Women’s

By: Mark Walsh

Mark Walsh — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:01:25 +0000

Observe the M.H picture: side show freak or victim of photoshopist with no anatomy? That is as “real” as an 8 pack comes.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:07:16 +0000

Where does all this leave the mythical ‘8-pac’?

By: Mark Walsh

Mark Walsh — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:16:11 +0000

I think that staight guys will always be confused by us talking at their asses. No wonder, that amatomical wonder gets so little attention in the health mags. Even when we’re not talking , those fixed stares seem to be perplexing, if not utterly baffleing.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:35:14 +0000

That’s a great idea. We’ll call it ‘Tit Talk’.

Women always complain that men talk to their tits and not to their face. Now they’re going to have to get used to men talking through their own tits.

By: Caligula

Caligula — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:30:26 +0000

Mark, please do a men’s health column about YOUR tits. It can be a sort Tit POV blog like Bob’s colon from Fight Club

By: Mark S

Mark S — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:25:24 +0000

The mags, like consumerism itself, have an answer to the issue of why men need to buy a new edition of the mag each month to find out AGAIN how to get BIGGER ARMS!! and KILLER ABS!! – the advice on how to achieve this and the products endorsed changes from month to month. Often doing a shameless 180.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:16:54 +0000

Yes, MH covers are a form of Sci-Fi.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:16:18 +0000

Ah. But you know. And now so do I – but don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone.

I take your point that not all bodybuilding is about an appreciation or envy of the male form – still less all of it necessarily homoerotic – but I’m not really sure what MH has to do with ’strength’ or ‘virility’.

MH last time I checked is all about marketing the modern male desire to be desired with all the glossy technology of consumerism and Photoshop. Those carefully selected (from thousands of wannabes) flawless male cover models – the ones that persuade men to buy the mag – are always photographed in b/w because the body make-up they’re caked in is less obvious, plus it’s easier to digitally enhance.

The abs on MH covers are literally made up. Impossible. Aspirational.

By: arctic_jay

arctic_jay — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:16:21 +0000

It makes absolutely no sense to say narcissism is passive and submissive. Narcissism as a psychological force has the power to override guilt and the need for acceptance, two vulnerabilities that keep most people in line. To some degree, self-love is necessary for people to develop as individuals and prevent themselves from being absorbed into the undifferentiated masses.

Narcissistic people, by force of their unquestioned self-affirmation, are usually able to inseminate other less self-loving types with their own value-systems which, luckily, they happen to be prime exemplars of. This is why cult-leaders almost always exhibit Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

I would say that by and large women are a lot more narcissistic than men, but men more often are at the extreme end of the narcissistic spectrum.

By: Jack Donovan

Jack Donovan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:19:35 +0000

All of that aside, I’ve occasionally found some good articles in there.

I was also in a married, suburban guy’s garage doing a delivery today, and he had exercise pages posted all over his wall near his gym equipment. I’m a homo, and I’ll buy it every so often. But not for the photos, which usually aren’t really that hot. They do have some good workouts–better than the WAY more steroid-y Muscle and Fitness.

I have a bunch of old exercise magazines from the 1940s-1960s. I think there’s more going on with men’s obsession with dreaming about being muscular and godlike than mere narcissism or a secret desire to jerk off to a bunch of half naked guys. The desire to appear strong and virile is kind of the opposite of feminine/submissive narcissism.

Real porn is so much easier to get at anyway. In fact, to prove the point, if I hit Ctrl+T and go to my bookmarks…there, I have it in a separate window right now. And no one even knows…