“I don’t care in case you aren’t into lifting or crushing whey protein shakes twice daily. To generally be honest, super-ripped guys are kind of intimidating. I guess I would say my ideal is somewhere between a beer belly and washboard abs.” – Danielle S.

While every one of us love a sculpted dude, there is just something about the dad bod that makes boys seem more human, natural, and attractive.

Sticking up for yourself is no easy job. But there are concrete skills you can use to hone your assertiveness and advocate for yourself.


We went on the source—one hundred women—to get to your bottom of this seemingly bottomless debate. Here’s the breakdown, and some of our favorite quotes:

'You’re corrupting America and destroying the gender equality movement. You should be ashamed. #stopwriting'


Pearson said her friends actually helped her think with the idea for her now famous essay. She said that in March, she was texting with her friends and requested if they had any funny topics she could write about for her next piece for The Odyssey.

Hmmm. Alright. That’s pretty brutally honest about cosmetic insecurity. I’m happy my flab from eating a whole can of Pringles inside a sitting makes you feel confident about your body, nevertheless.

The stories show that body-shaming hurts. And nevertheless body-shaming is normalised, part read more of everyday experience, and could be even harder for men to call out than women. We know that these comments hurt, but we could find it hard to elucidate why. The #EverydayLookism campaign might help someone understand and describe why body-shaming is discriminatory and damaging.

I suppose until eventually the next positive male body image movement rolls around, so probably a while. It’s an empowering idea to know that someone finds your body attractive or warm or sexy.

Researchers have looked at perceptions of Gentlemen with and without a Dad Bod. A study using male figures with waist-to-chest ratios ranging from .sixty to .ninety—a WCR of .80 or even a WCR of .90 would correspond to some Dad Bod (Wade and colleagues, 2019a, 2019b)—discovered that male figures with low WCRs received higher ratings for attractiveness while the figures with WCRs that correspond to the Father Bod bought lower attractiveness ratings, but been given higher ratings on evolutionary fitness traits such as affectionate, nurturant, friendly, good parent potential, and older.



She wrote that girls go wild with the dadbod because "while many of us love a sculpted person, there is just something about the dadbod that makes boys seem more human, natural, and attractive." View this photo on Instagram

Emily Shornick, photo editor: What’s great about dadbod sexual intercourse is that you know you’re gonna have great postcoital snacks. Dadbod certainly has some cheese from the fridge.

It’s high-quality for all of us to have common-looking bodies, and when you’ve never experienced a partner who felt that way, allow me to promise you: it is actually some thoroughly good shit. Find one these kinds of person and get naked with her or him.



“I really would rather have a guy be larger than me than be pre-pubescent looking. I think that would qualify being an occasional supporter of dad bods.” -Kristen S.


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