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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
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.
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.