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If the dad bod was an empowering celebration of men and all their body types, then that would be a different story. Sound familiar? Oh right, society’s been saying that about women for years too. In other words, men should look a certain way in order to be attractive. Pearson also goes onto say that dating someone with a dad bod is a good way to ‘get used to’ it, which implies that there’s something fundamentally wrong or unattractive with a dad bod.
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If you’re going to spend 23 years with someone, the fact that they have they’ll have exact same body type is the least of your concerns. ‘We know what we are getting into when he’s got the exact same body type at the age of 22 that he’s going to have at 45.’ Beauty shouldn’t be some competition and certainly not defined by something as arbitrary as your weight. It piggybacks on the stupid idea that we need to be skinny in order to feel beautiful, but also throws in the double whammy that men are objects to heighten our attractiveness. This is just plain rude to both men and women. ‘We want to look skinny and the bigger the guy, the smaller we feel and the better we look next to you in a picture.’ Also, we need to stop spreading this myth that all women are horrifically image-obsessed and have no self-esteem. We are insecure enough as it is.’ĭating/marrying somebody so that you feel more attractive about yourself is a pretty misguided way to approach relationships. ‘We don’t want a guy that makes us feel insecure about our body. To make things a little easier and less scientific, a dad bod is basically someone who has ‘a cuddly torso and gentle paunch’ ( MSN) regardless of whether or not they’re a father. Why’s everyone so obsessed with the dad bod and why do I hate the frenzy around it? Let’s go back and look at one of the viral articles that kickstarted the chaos – MacKenzie Pearson’s accidentally sexist piece for the Odyssey Online “ Why Girls Love the Dad Bod“. (I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it’s a slow news cycle.) It’s been accompanied by a lot of love and a lot of hate, but let’s slow things down a bit and look at The Post’s very (unnecessarily) scientific breakdown of what exactly it is. The words ‘dad bod’ have been flung around a lot lately, so much so that it somehow constitutes journalism over at The Washington Post and New York Daily News. Funny and harmless, or a little more insidious? Here’s my two cents on the dad bod