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Your comment made me re-think this a bit, because I happen to know that the origin of "dad-bod" wasn't patronizing but a word used by some straight women who find this body type attractive in men. I wonder if "short king" may have initially been used by people who were attracted to the attribute in men and wanted a nice sounding way to describe it. I'm totally with you when these phrases are used like you described, but I wonder how many people using these terms are genuinely attracted to the attributes they're pointing out.
It was used by magazines that thought a dad body was an actor of his roid cycle.
What does that mean? βan actor of his roid cycleβ?
Typically action star actors like Chris Hemsworth roid to get their body ready for a role and then after the movie is shot they cycle off and are a fatter and deflated but still muscular. People then see that body and think its a dad bod. A true dad bod is someone who does not have time to work out and therefore does not have massive shoulders and arms.
off* his roid cycle
Brilliantly put. It's downright insulting nonsense.
I'm with you except that I aspire to a dad bod. It's probably not in the cards, but I'm trying lol
My city's most common tagging these days might be "dadbob". I see it everywhere.