Actually, to take a tangent, to me this rise of drugged up ROIDGIANT gym addicts as male role models we should all aspire to be like is one of the biggest and most obnoxious cancers on true masculinity in recent decades.
I was browsing a copy of Men's Fitness in the supermarket recently and the front cover was:
"THE HENRY CAVILL SUPERMAN WORKOUT: WHY YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO NOT LOOK LIKE HENRY CAVILL!".
As the mag itself said, Henry Cavill worked out up to 10 hours a day with a professional bodybuilder to get his Superman physique. He had to follow an insanely regimented diet. The only way you could ever do his work out was if you were a movie star being paid huge sums to do it for an upcoming role and had nothing else going on in your life.
The whole article was phrased like "Time to get off your lazy ass, you fat f***, AND BECOME HENRY CAVILL! You have a job? You have a social life? Wtf is wrong with you, get down that f***ing gym and put in at least 8 hours YOU SAP. Do this or you're unattractive and no woman will ever look at you."
Toxic stuff. And it's even worse when it's celebs like The Rock that men are encouraged to be like, because these men are (IMO) frauds. Yeah, they work hard to maintain their physique. But their build is unnatural, and was obtained by illegitimate methods.
The Rock was voted Sexiest Man Alive...which filled me with dismay. Basically, you're never going to get that mantle if you don't pump your body full of drugs and artificially inflate your muscle mass. Ridiculous.
For the record, I believe "real" men should be muscular and strong. But I also think that should be natural, through playing sports, working out legit without drugs and eating clean. No wonder young men have f***ed self esteem these days. Even the b*tchy women's mags don't tell girls they need to roid up and sweat in a gym for all their waking hours.