What’s a “dad bod” anyway? Nobody still seems to know anymore…
Why Girls Love The Dad Bod,” the piece is uniformly positive. “The dad bod says, ‘I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time,'” Pearson writes.
While the “dad bod” remains a cultural phenomenon, the definition has become increasingly blurry. The body type has been applied to everyone from Jon Hamm to Jason Mamoa to Jason Kelce.
Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.As a result, the term has lost meaning. “The dawn of the ‘dad bod’ trope felt like a new age of body acceptance for men, but, actually, it continued to suggest almost impossible targets of being both laid-back and vain,” wrote GQ in 2019.
Five years later, the definition doesn’t seem to be any more concrete. Someone on X recently proclaimed the “dad bod” is the “top male physique,” only to post a picture of… a ripped guy.
