it will , it is a great book and introduction . Used it myself to learn it . after a year i ' m able to make great little tools that help me a lot . <| sep |> Standard scoringPick 2 Devontae Booker v . Chiefs Spencer Ware v . DenverMatt Forte v . NERob Kelley v . Dallas <| sep |> 2 cc 2 2 cc 1 for lime devil horns ? <| sep |> I think I figured it out last night . The reason that all of these people are so profoundly hostile to the idea that not everyone can reach this physical standard of beauty is three fold . First , it ' s offensive to us because I think we cherish the idea of control over our own bodies . We love the idea that , while we may be locked into corporate culture , or religious control , or our roles as parent or child or student or worker , and have limited control over so many other aspects of our lives , that at least we can be as ' Beautiful as Beckham or Victoria ' as long as we put in the work . It ' s a liberating idea , and it ' s always tempting to believe in such things , just like communism and free market capitalism are such tempting ideas , and have so many believers despite the obvious evidence that neither one is actually truth . Ideals like these are strong , they don ' t just get adopted , but owned , we internalize them , use them as signifiers of our identity , they become almost like religious faith The underpinnings must be accepted as truth , and cannot be questioned . Second , my assertion is offensive to us me included , before I stepped back because women have been held to unreachable standards of beauty by men forever . Now , even though women are still being so unfairly expected to have a body like Heidi Klum and perfect skin every day , here is some dude complaining that not every guy is capable of meeting the male beauty standard , and should be cut some slack for it , and that in fact that expectation is wrong and destructive . They bristle instinctively at the unfairness of it , in much the same way that I bristle when some MRA asshole starts moaning about one of the few areas where male privilege falls down , like the teaching or nursing profession . The instinctive attitude , I think , is to dismiss it as whining . And you see it again and again in these comments . There is a strong element of ' suck it up little boy , and do your crunches '. Thirdly , just as the beauty and cosmetic industry seized upon the unfair distribution of ' beauty ', used it to create and feed insecurities in women and increasingly in men , and then used those insecurities to sell beauty products that are expensive , and often fraudulent , so went the fitness industry . Just search ' how to get six pack abs ', and look at the results . Tons of articles talking about how you too can have them . With an expensive gym membership , but how you also need a trainer , or at least to buy these books and magazines , and all these supplements , and powders , and formulas , and then when all that fails , another industry can sell you liposuction surgery , or another industry can sell you performance enhancing drugs . And all of them preying upon the insecurities of people who have been told that all they need to look like Larry Fitzgerald or Jason Darulo is willpower , and so now if they fail , they are even more motivated to buy the snake oil because they are fat . And now they are fat because they are weak and spineless . The absence of a six pack has now become evidence of moral degeneracy . Finally , the sheer prevalence of the fitness industry makes finding any information that isn ' t part of a sales pitch very diffucult . My google skills are not completely horrible , but it takes dozens of pages of articles from bodybuilding magazines , sales pitches from supplement makers , or blogs by personal trainers before you start to see the occasional essay discussing the genetics of obesity . And of course those tend to be more concerned with encouraging people to hit the gym anyway , because the fact remains that even if most people will never look like Michelangelo ' s David , exercise remains healthy , and nobody is arguing about that , nor should they be . Anyway , I appreciate the support , but I ' m out . I plan to do a little research over the next while , and maybe then I will broach this topic again , and nail a few theses to the door of the fitnessindustrial complex . Or maybe I will take the lesson provided here and stop trying to tell people things they don ' t want to hear , whether I happen to believe them or not . There is a great book called ' the obesity myth ' by a guy named Paul Campos . It examines a lot of the facts of weight loss and exercise in western society . While it is more concerned with morbid obesity and fat shaming culture than it is with washboard abs , he makes some excellent and well supported arguments about how little control many people actually have over these matters , despite what all of us would like to think .