Not inaccurate

They're not "muscle hunks", but half of the people in this picture are definitely much above average in muscle mass.

There are no opinions/personal experience necessary here. Research has quite clearly shown that a decent amount of muscle, more than average, but not by a lot, not an outrageous "muscle hunk" amount, is the most attractive sexually.

Of course this doesn't hold true for all women, tastes differ. And as well, muscle is not the most important thing in male attractiveness. Male attractiveness is a mix of very many things.

Pedro is also masculine as fuck.
Yeah most of those guys are fit as fuck (except jack black, sorry buddy). This post is talking about people trying to get like Arnold Schwarzenegger but to get a body like any of these guys requires serious gym time.
I think @mgtom might have meant to post his comment here as well...
Research also shows that being above average attractive physically isn't a thing most people don't require.
Make her laugh. Be kind. Get laid.
- And as well, muscle is not the most important thing in male attractiveness. Male attractiveness is a mix of very many things.
  Did you miss that?
- Pardon?

Henry Cavill is a muscle hunk, tho.

But he's also a big nerd so that kinda makes up for it.

The only non-muscle hunk in this image is Jack Black (famously the poster boy for unconventionally attractive man, where the picture chosen is a younger and skinnier one), Joseph Quinn, and mayyybee Jeremy Allen White.
The nerve of putting Orlando fucking Bloom as Legolas or Cavill as The Witcher as "little". This disconnect is unfathomable.
This meme really gets the rise out of me because I agree with the sentiment but the example they chose are so bad.
- Yeah fucking hell Henry Cavill is literally superman omg
- Jeremy Allen White is jacked as hell
  https://media.gq-magazine.co.uk/photos/64c145aad8c083bf85029870/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/Jeremy-Allen-White.jpg
- The sentiment isn't even true unless you're in an urban center or in Europe.
  Small town North American women love muscle dummies. There's fuckin swarms of them in my town. Go to the bar and the only men there are roided up muscle dummies with swarms of women rallying around them.
  It's just fuckin wrong. Plenty of stupid women out there who just want a hunk of meat for a boyfriend.
There was an old reddit thread were one woman argued that women arent attracted to "gym rats" and used Henry Cavill as an example of a man with a physique who doesn't spend hours in the gym everyday.
People who doesn't do resistance training have a negative amount of knowledge of what it takes to get in "shape".
- I do "resistance training." I resist going to the gym, and eat cheese instead.
  Body By Beecher's
- Henry Caville gets his physique through sheer willpower put into manifesting his dreams to one day be Captain General Trajann Valoris
- Henry Cavill? The guy who played Superman and Geralt of Rivia? Nobody can possibly think he got that body by sitting around. That's like saying guys don't think Lady Gaga wears makeup on stage. He's not just fit, he's built out.
  Any actor is someone who is selling their looks as part of the package. However they look, it is a choice and they put effort into it. Even Jack Black.
But even he doesn't look like in man of steel on a Thursday morning. He looks like that after he got a good pump and not eating and drinking for days.
I'm still gay for cavill tho
- Yeah it doesn't look like he had a mustache Photoshopped out in that photo

IDK, i feel they're also missing the point that a lot of these guys are attractive as well and have the personalities for their characters written for them by various people (others have already mentioned that these men are generally all physically healthy, so I won't expand on that). If I could have an attractive face, and have my personality written by a couple of writers AND have girls read or watch that play out, I bet I or anybody in that scenario would get a bunch of girls. Ultimately, I also feel men working out is one of the simpler ways to appear more attractive, next to dressing well. Being funny or in general, having a very attractive personality is harder to develop when you compare it to working out and dressing well. Of course, dressing well and having a healthy body doesn't mean you will be attractive to all women, but it betters your chances.

I think @gmtom meant to post his comment here.

The bear is ripped af

The other main two aren't exactly out of shape either.
Pedro Pascal
https://www.pride.com/media-library/pedro-pascal.jpg?id=32867233&width=716&quality=85
Orlando Bloom
https://hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/orlando-bloom-shirtless-backgrid.jpg?w=680
- Wow I remember bloom being like 20 something or whatever. Tempus fugit.
He's literally training to play a professional wrestler in this picture. Starring alongside Zach Efron, who got even more swole.

Okay but Henry Cavill is simply unfair to the rest of humanity.

I get it I was wrong, I have to be a muscle hunk OR Jack Black to be attractive

yep. the only person here who isn't in personal-trainer levels of physical shape is jack black. I've just been re-watching the bear and apparently they skip the scenes where carmi is spending 3 hours a day in the gym

Hey, some of us cis straight guys have been resigned to the fact that we'll always be fat slobs for years now.

Not fat slobs. Big cuddly teddy bears.
- I'm much more slobby than any bear.
- So I like the idea of being a big cuddly bear right? I'm 6', big everywhere, and got gnarly hair.
  But like I don't get how to dress in a non-intimidating and non-slob way that is also comfortable.
  Like right now I'm wearing a camo sweatshirt and sweatpants. Or I wear an oversized button up long sleeve shirt and khakis.
  I don't look cuddly, to me, I look like my dad
- My body hair is lacking to be bear :(
- Is true, my spirit animal is Quest Sprout

Uh, I have definitively heard a lot of men say their primary motivation to "getting buff" is to pick up women.
- and I have definitely heard women repeat some common gender stereotype as well
- It can be for women but attract women for unintended reasons. Confidence is attractive and if they get confidence through gaining muscle it still works.
I'm 39. These days I explicitly work out to be in good shape for sex. I want to look good when I pop the top, and attracting partners is a core goal of mine.
I've never in my life been hurting for confidence, and was confident when I was 40 lbs heavier - I just looked worse with my shirt off.
If you're chasing low-commitment sex, at some point your physical attractiveness does indeed matter.
Take memes seriously, get into arguments with strangers.
- You're right. I don't even want to argue about the Kek of markiplier in the center.

Markiplier in the center of diagram is funny as hell. And accurate.

I'd who TF that is. Looks like Reanu Keeves to me.
- One of the more famous Youtubers.
- Check out A Heist with Markiplier sometime, it's like the video form of a choose your own adventure book.
Was hilarious watching that vid of Amy demanding he explain how he doesn't see the thirst trap of him suddenly going dom mode in ISWM
"IT'S ONE WORD! HOW IS THIS A THING‽"
"IT'S MORE THAN THE WORD AND YOU DAMN WELL KNOW IT!"

Jack Black catching some stay bullets here.

Depressed middle age father here, and this tracks. I seem to get a lot of positive attention from women of all ages, and I refuse to believe that I'm good looking.

If my spirit weren't broken, I'd have women climbing me like rhesus monkeys.
- Batting them unsuccessfully off with a stick
I made the same point as this meme a few days ago in a thread about young men having "muscle dysphoria" because they think they aren't buff enough to get attention from ladies. It was generally unpopular and people didn't believe me.
But it's the truth, that most women aren't looking for huge muscled buff guys, and they are attracted to guys with normal physiques. I have known many very hot women and many of them were with skinny guys, some were with fat guys. Few of them had partners that were buff muscle guys. I'm overweight but I move through life with self-confidence and women love that, I get more attention that I should.

People magazine needs to correct their new sexiest man alive from Patrick Dempsey (which why in the first place) to Markiplier and issue a formal apology immediately.

I thought Keanu was in the middle.
Markiplier works too.

What a man wants, can women just chill and let a man be happy?

Yes, famously men have had very few demands of women throughout history.
- I don't disagree, but also it isn't relevant. Either it's wrong or it's not, regardless of gender. People should be happy first.

I haven't even seen people succed at getting hunks with that kind of motivation. If you don't do it for yourself, you set youself up for failure.

People who take fitness serious are literally cooks. The only way to make sure you know what you're eating is by cooking it yourself.

You don't know many actual working cooks, do you?
- THIS CHICKEN IS……. FUCKING…….. RAAAAAAWWWWWWW
I mean...if you consider baking a plain chicken breast and mixing a protein shake to be cooking, then I agree.
- TIL throwing Mrs. Dash on a chicken breast and putting it on my George Foreman Grill makes me a cook!
- This is some sort of cooking. But we eat more than just chicken breast and protein shakes. You also need Tuna and some vegetables(or if your name is Sam Dulek than you can eat literally everything).

I feel like Jack Black from School of Rock. Except I can't play guitar.

Can you funny?
- I can funny. I can sing. I can skibitty-doo-bop-doo-bop. And am fat.

Yeah if I could look like Legolas forever I might do that. As it stands I'm headed in the direction of depressed middle aged father but less handsome so idk

Fact that the Line Cook example isn't Pere Davidson is a crime and severe inaccuracy, that man looks like he's still waiting for puberty and can Line Cook Energy his way into dating basically any chick he puts the moves on.

That or he just does literally any amount of oral since that's apparently a complete rarity woth famous dudes.

The people only focusing on muscle hunks and ignoring Jack Black and Markiplier. I think I owe @gmtom an apology...

I did have to become a "muscle hunk", actually.

Can someone identity everyone in this pic? I only recognize two people.

Left to right moving down:
Carmy, main character from The Bear.
Eddie, Side character from Stranger Things Season 3.
Legolas from Lord of the Rings.
Jack Black from the School of Rock.
Markiplier, YouTube personality.
Geralt from The Witcher.
Joel from The Last Of Us.
- oh wow! a lot of modern nerd culture. thanks.
  never heard of markplier or the bear, never watched witcher stranger things or tlou
Elf: Legolas
Dad: Pedro Pascal
Elf Dad: Henry Cavill
Elf cook: Eddie from Stranger Things
No idea about the others.
- Jack Black and Markiplier

Yeah, you just need to be born with the right genetics, be charismatic, and have media empires pushing you as a heartthrob in tv/movies/social media, and you too can be desired by women. Totally not out of the realm of possibility for most men. This just takes the idea that men have to be muscle-bound hunks to "get women" and puts it further outside the realm of possibility by replacing it with "Hollywood" hearththrobs. At least being a musclebound hunk is semi-possible if I dedicated my life to working out and bulking up 8+ hours a day. I doubt there's anything I can do to achieve Pedro Pascal's level of fame in my lifetime.