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When Men Started to Obsess Over Six-Pack Abs It goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks. By Conor Heffernan, Assistant Professor, UT Austin Apr 1, 2021 The cultural obsession with six-pack abdominals shows no signs of abating. And if research into male body image is to be believed, it will likely only grow, thanks to social media. Today, there’s an entire industry centered on obtaining—and maintaining—chiseled abs. They’re the subject of books and social media posts, while every action movie star seems to sport them. Pressure is also mounting on women to sport s...

Men Have Been Obsessed With Getting Six-Pack Abs for Centuries Conor Heffernan, Assistant Professor, UT Austin The cultural obsession with six-pack abdominals shows no signs of abating. And if research into male body image is to be believed, it will likely only grow, thanks to social media. Today, there’s an entire industry centered on obtaining—and maintaining—chiseled abs. They’re the subject of books and social media posts, while every action movie star seems to sport them. Pressure is also mounting on women to sport six-pack abs as body ideals for athletic women ha...

Three words used to describe "others" in Western literature. This topic came up in a previous post, and made me wonder what Google Ngram had to say about it. I made three different graphs because the scales are so vastly different (owing among other things, I'm sure, to multiple uses of the words). Here they are:

Men’s obsession with six-pack abs started long before Rambo and Terminator It may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, but a part of this obsession stems from a renewed European interest in ancient Greece. A still from Tarzan. The cultural obsession with six-pack abdominals shows no signs of abating. And if research into male body image is to be believed, it will likely only grow, thanks to social media. Today, there is an entire industry centred on obtaining – and maintaining – chiselled abs. They are the subject of books and social media posts, while every action movie star s...

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