Shit Is Bout 'Ta Get Real, Y'all: Is there a word for that?
Posted at 1:38 PM Dec 04, 2009
By Andrea Grimes |
Because being real 'bout our bodies is way cool and hip, right? I mean, next week we'll probably talk about teen suicide and bullying, but right now, we need to get something straight, and that something is agreeing on a term for those muscle things.
I asked the Twitter world to help me out. Why? Because hey, I'm being real with y'all: that's what friends are for.
So which is it, Dolls? Are we going to be technical, what with the "psoas" or classical, with the Davids? Or perhaps pop cultural, with the Ken? Turn your chair around and tell me why your term is the most real, y'all.
- @j3551C4 says: V CUTS!
- @somaphile says: that would be the psoas muscle, I believe!
- @taradublinrocks says: "Davids"
- @nerver (or own Merritt Martin) seconds the Davids: The Davids. As in, like the muscles on Michelangelo's "David."
- @vegetarian9 says: "ken cut"...*puuurrrr* lol.
- @sarahwiththeh says: Ken Dolls.
Comments
Well on Ryan Reynolds specifically, I believe the technical term is "lickable."
Posted 12/04/2009 at 01:57:56 PMYou ask a question then put a picture of Ryan Reynolds up there and now I'm all distracted. That expression is ridiculous Ryan Reynolds. How do you manage to melt my cold coal lump with that ridiculous expression? HOW?
I vote Davids. Ken Doll makes me think of smooth crotch and that is not sexy.
Posted 12/04/2009 at 02:31:50 PMWhenever I see that on a guy my head tilts back and I Look down and I think "I can almost see it". Sooo close to the holy land.
Posted 12/04/2009 at 04:57:38 PMUh...I believe that's called "The Moneymaker"
Posted 12/04/2009 at 06:00:10 PMLadies, it's not a muscle at all. What you're seeing is a body fat percentage so low that his hips, and specifically, his iliac crests (i.e. the top of his hip bone on either side) are visible. Errr...just a little anatomy to help...
Posted 12/04/2009 at 06:37:57 PMBTW the psoas muscle is located a bit lower...right around the rude bits-below the pants line in this photo.
My friends and I always called them "GI Joe lines", something to do with the old GI Joe figures always having them sculpted on. Pretty sure that was a nerdy, half-sleep-drunk, 3am creation.
Posted 12/04/2009 at 06:44:15 PMAm I the only one who thinks that shit is gross?
Posted 12/05/2009 at 12:50:57 AMI first realized my love for them in the "rubber gloves" scene in Fight Club (http://movieoftheday.tumblr.com/post/246275379/tyler-what-are-you-doing-jack-just-going-to), so I always think of them as "Brads".
Posted 12/07/2009 at 11:50:52 AMIf I may...would you believe there *is* a term, already?
"Apollo's belt," aka "Adonis' Belt"—I first heard of the term, or a related one (I think "Girdle of Hercules" might have been another version), in college art history. Along with an amusing if cringe-inducing nickname for the Artemision Bronze.
I live to serve. :)
Posted 12/08/2009 at 04:42:28 AM