Mr Muscle?
Whilst the idea of the ideal female form has fluctuated throughout time, the male body has endured less pressure to be perfect. Any man, if he hits the gym hard enough, can end up with perfect pecs, a 6 pack and a shape a bit like Arnie.
But sadly it seems, this is no longer enough. The demands for the male figure to conform to female ideals has seen a massive rise in the moob job and a staggering increase in the cases of anorexia in men. Somehow buff is no longer enough to get the ladies going. In fact, the beefed up images of Alex Reid seem to make girls in their dozens reach for the sick bag. No, geek chic has become an all over pursuit.
Think pale, tall, interesting and narrow, with cheekbones all over, like a catwalk model, or a beautiful Jarvis Cocker. Easy peasy. Simple to attain that, surely. I’m sure there’s still a rack in the Tower of London somewhere.
I read somewhere this week, that it is because of the pill that women are now going for more androgynous men, although I can’t for the life of me remember why. But think Russell Brand, rather than Russell Crowe. David Tennant not David Beckham, and you’re along the right lines. Even the mannequins are getting skinnier, cast as they are on the form of the Burberry model Davo, he of the 29 inch waist.
Er....Perfection?
By these calculations, Kate Moss and Pete Doherty were the perfect couple. But compare them to Katie Price and Alex Reid, both exhibitors of the exaggerated male and female forms and you might start to see what I am getting at. Well, sort of. Neither couple are really what you might aspire to in the quest for perfection. Or hygiene really, in Pete’s case.
Still, help is at hand. All you need to do, is order your favourite t-shirt in one size bigger and it will appear as though you’ve lost those niggling pounds, and hang down as though you’ve been living on lettuce for weeks. See? There’s a solution to everything. In a way!
