Right,...look here gang I've had enough of this whooie! I really rebel at this "Perfect Body Crap". All it does is make most folks miserable. Guys Queer or otherwise, and women likewise after age 20 do not have "perfect" bodies, and are 'never' going to have one 'ever' again...period.
My near century on this awful mudball tell's me this.
So lets just get used to our naturally sloppy selves, and relax for craps sakes. Getting beef like the above takes constant maintenance. One false move, and you revert to your 'natural' self. Same goes for you gals out there. That Perfect feminine shape is a cruel lie as well. Love who you are!
This is why the health crap business is a "Billion+" Dollar" rip-off.
As for them that by chance of DNA do have that perfect meat...congrats, and fuck you.
I got news for you characters. You're going to get old sloppy sick fucked up then die like the rest of us. So try to keep your "stuff in perspective." '...and the rest of you stop turning 'them' into gawds. It's beneath you. Learn to love yourselves for heaven's sakes!
Of course I mean all this in a nice way.
(The above a reply to a FB message from a mainstream Gay pal from our Movement daze.)
Btw yes of course I admire beauty. However I ain't going out'n getting surgery to look like "Charlie". Charles Guislain my fav former "French Fashion Boy" below there. 'Am I making the point?
Stay Tuned.
Yes indeed, this is a tyranny from the 80's, when gym-toned bodies became all the rage. Those Calvin Klein ads and hairy-chested handlebar moustache types make me want to scream and throw things. The people who prefer this look seem to want to ensure that their esthetic is the only esthetic which is permitted to be admired or expressed.
ReplyDeleteIn the United States, it's sort of an unspoken rule that only good-looking people are allowed to date other good-looking people. When couples don't match, it is apt to be snidely commented upon. I do not know but I have heard that Europeans are more relaxed about this sort of thing.
I have no problem with people exercising for their health & fitness in an unobtrusive non-narcissistic way - I've done it myself - but our culture has made an annoying exhibitionistic neurosis out of it: odd for a society that also wages a relentless war against beauty, while also forbidding kids to go outside and engage in what used to be regarded as normal play, so that they are likely to become prematurely portly pre-diabetic couch potatoes.
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Anti-romanticism is exactly what afflicts us. And it's no coincidence, methinks, that it rolled over us like the algae-infested tide that sinks all boats just when the malefic reign of the sinister Gipper was revving up.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I forgot to comment upon the vacuous expression of our Ken doll up there. He looks like a thoughtful sensitive person NOT. I just can't slam these people hard enough. Quite a contrast with Charlie.
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Charlie emotes thoughtful calm, and is blessed with transitory beauty as well. It is no accident that when his overt beauty began to fade he left the spotlight. His inner beauty now guiding his life as an artist.
ReplyDeleteThe model above is a friend of the old gay pal I mentioned. He tortured himself to look this way. His has my sympathy. He bought the lie, and suffers because of it. As I said, "...one false move, and he'll revert to his natural self."
His "natural self" is no less loveable that the charade he bears now. Hopefully this will come to him, and all those swept up in this most 'cruel' of lies.
Well maybe I was a bit too hard on him. A lot of those guys are insensitive jerks, so I might be projecting that on him when it's not necessarily warranted. I'd be surprised if you haven't encountered the types I'm talking about.
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