there isn't a job that's "just being hot" and i know i'm annoying for pointing this out but we should stop falling for this reactionary bit even as a joke.
I got to visit the Target and BestBuy HQ in Minneapolis for a multimedia class. We hung out with their marketing, multimedia and business relations departments. They were all structured the same way, male young to middle aged dweebs reporting to the most attractive Scandinavian women you could imagine. I swear the qualifications for executive, director, and senior roles were blonde, skinny and hot.
being hot is a lot of work if you're trying to fit the Western patriarchal beauty standards tho. have you ever tried to follow a model or famous actor's fitness plan? it's so hard and time consuming. i'm not saying being conventionally attractive can't make things easier* but we shouldn't pretend like there isn't work being done. even shit like being an influencer or sex work takes a lot of marketing work and editing your content and stuff. i just feel like going it's not that hard to go from being "being hot isn't work" to saying a lot of the forms of labor service industry people end up doing isn't work so we're potential ceding ground to the reactionaries there.
*it can also make things harder even professionally, plenty of attractive women get passed over for promotions bc their sexist boss thinks they're a "dumb blonde" or whatever
have you ever tried to follow a model or famous actor's fitness plan
All those plans are nonsense and not what the actors or models actually do. Sure they put in a ton of effort into exercise and diet, but not by following their puff piece article on men's health or whatever. The actual mechanics of dieting and exercise are very simple and won't sell any magazines, which is why they make up nonsense fitness plans to write articles about.
yeah i know, i'm talking about the actual work they put in.
edit: i'll make my example more clear. a lot of NFL teams have strict workout plans they put their cheerleaders on. those workout plans are unpaid labor they have to do to keep their job since these people aren't being paid to go to the gym, correct? also NFL teams got busted not paying cheerleaders for mandatory attendance at promotional events like car dealership openings or whatever bc "standing around looking hot isn't work."
Yeah one of the actors from the it's always Sunny in Philadelphia series has a good quote about that, how much effort it takes to get in tip top shape.
I'm describing people with corporate leadership roles in two huge retailers. These people are the least productive of the entire professional managerial class. They don't even send 8 emails a day, they sit in meetings and take notes about those emails then send it off to the decision makers. Sometimes they have to do the uncomfortable task of breaking bad news to their subordinates.
Steroids really just make it so you can work out harder. It isn't really cheating like people think. I have known guys that tried a cycle, couldn't commit and had poor results.
There is extensive research on testosterone supplementation at normal and supraphysiological doses that indicates testosterone leads to increased muscle mass even with no exercise (obviously it's much better with exercise). I'm not even going to get into nat vs nonnat for celebrities because your thinking is exasperating.
Anyhow, the services I'm referring to is basically a turnkey "get fit" system where you get the prescriptions, monitoring, trainer etc for only a couple grand a month.
there isn't a job that's "just being hot" and i know i'm annoying for pointing this out but we should stop falling for this reactionary bit even as a joke.
I got to visit the Target and BestBuy HQ in Minneapolis for a multimedia class. We hung out with their marketing, multimedia and business relations departments. They were all structured the same way, male young to middle aged dweebs reporting to the most attractive Scandinavian women you could imagine. I swear the qualifications for executive, director, and senior roles were blonde, skinny and hot.
being hot is a lot of work if you're trying to fit the Western patriarchal beauty standards tho. have you ever tried to follow a model or famous actor's fitness plan? it's so hard and time consuming. i'm not saying being conventionally attractive can't make things easier* but we shouldn't pretend like there isn't work being done. even shit like being an influencer or sex work takes a lot of marketing work and editing your content and stuff. i just feel like going it's not that hard to go from being "being hot isn't work" to saying a lot of the forms of labor service industry people end up doing isn't work so we're potential ceding ground to the reactionaries there.
*it can also make things harder even professionally, plenty of attractive women get passed over for promotions bc their sexist boss thinks they're a "dumb blonde" or whatever
All those plans are nonsense and not what the actors or models actually do. Sure they put in a ton of effort into exercise and diet, but not by following their puff piece article on men's health or whatever. The actual mechanics of dieting and exercise are very simple and won't sell any magazines, which is why they make up nonsense fitness plans to write articles about.
yeah i know, i'm talking about the actual work they put in.
edit: i'll make my example more clear. a lot of NFL teams have strict workout plans they put their cheerleaders on. those workout plans are unpaid labor they have to do to keep their job since these people aren't being paid to go to the gym, correct? also NFL teams got busted not paying cheerleaders for mandatory attendance at promotional events like car dealership openings or whatever bc "standing around looking hot isn't work."
Yeah one of the actors from the it's always Sunny in Philadelphia series has a good quote about that, how much effort it takes to get in tip top shape.
I can't believe what that dude did was real. that body humor is next level.
what he do?
I'm describing people with corporate leadership roles in two huge retailers. These people are the least productive of the entire professional managerial class. They don't even send 8 emails a day, they sit in meetings and take notes about those emails then send it off to the decision makers. Sometimes they have to do the uncomfortable task of breaking bad news to their subordinates.
What, ozempic and steroids?
Steroids really just make it so you can work out harder. It isn't really cheating like people think. I have known guys that tried a cycle, couldn't commit and had poor results.
There is extensive research on testosterone supplementation at normal and supraphysiological doses that indicates testosterone leads to increased muscle mass even with no exercise (obviously it's much better with exercise). I'm not even going to get into nat vs nonnat for celebrities because your thinking is exasperating.
Anyhow, the services I'm referring to is basically a turnkey "get fit" system where you get the prescriptions, monitoring, trainer etc for only a couple grand a month.
That was my point steroids are a lot of work to do properly especially if you want to get anything like the results you see on tv.
They're almost certainly getting work done, minor use of fillers and preventative Botox is pretty standard in corporate environments
Or we could go the other direction and acknowledge that a lot of labor goes into being hot