And my work here is done

Last weekend, Dan and I hit up Blockbuster for a hot n' heavy Saturday night date. We assumed our usual positions in the store: Him in the New Release section, hunting down a flick; me by the candy and magazines, reading about The Jonas Brothers and pro/conning Dark Chocolate Raisinets versus Junior Mints.

He emerged from the bowels of the video store with Season One of Californication, the series about a frustrated, sex-addicted writer which we missed because we're too cheap to pay for Showtime we'd rather spend quality time together at night, playing Trivial Pursuit, drinking fine wine and talking about the future.

Anyhow, as you can see from the pic above, David Duchovny appears shirtless, ab muscles rippling. As we checked out at the counter, Dan was clearly checking out Davie D. because he thrust the DVD in front of my face as said, "His abs are totally airbrushed, right? He doesn't really look like that. I just saw him on TV - I know he doesn't look like that."

It was really just so sweet and innocent. Our men don't have Dove commercials and tell-all books on EDs and magazines devoted to body image issues (catty covered or not). The feedback they get on how they're "supposed" to look, ads and billboards aside, basically comes from what their partners tell them. Dan just happened to luck into finding a wife who is constantly pausing the TiVo on, say, The Pussycat Dolls Present: Doll Domination while maniacally screaming, "Look! Look at how they stuffed her into nude Spandex hose to make her butt look totally smooth!" A wife who actually turned to him during the Summer Olympics, just as the U.S. was poised to nab the Gold in gymnastics, and asked, in a very serious tone, "Do you think that these athletes don't have cellulite because they work out so much...or is it that only cellulite-free athletes go on to become Olympic superheroes?" A wife who writes about loving your body for a living and yet still climbs up on the toilet every so often to get an unobstructed checking-out view of her butt in the bathroom mirror.

I assured him that the whole cover, including the bimbo in the bikini lying at David's feet, were so airbrushed, they might as well have been cartoons. "His abs are totally shaded in, and that woman was probably just drawn in as an afterthought," I said. We kissed and went home. And much like the time an issue of Shape Magazine arrived in the mail, prompting Dan to exclaim, "Oh my God - Ali Larter's body is totally airbrushed!", I felt a wave of civic and personal pride sweep over me. My job here is done.

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hahahah, ha.
how adorable.

I feel the same way.

we were watching the piece of television wonderment which is 90210 last week and my husband turned to me and said:

ICK THEY ARE WAY TOO SKINNY. UNATTRACTIVE.

(groundbreaking for him as he doesnt read US or your blog :))

M.

I love Dan!!! And I mean that in the least creepy way possible. Just last night my husband and I were biking (stationary, of course) side by side and he hands me Men's Health mag and says "do you think these are faked"? It was a hydroxycut ad. I fell off my bike laughing. "Oh yes, sweetie. New graphic design grads have to get experience somewhere..." ;)

Aww that's so sweet!

My ex told me I have to watch that show because he said that it reminds him somewhat of our relationship. Frustrated, sex-addicted writer, huh? We must have had one messed up relationship...

Good job, Leslie!!!

My husband, who is one of those annoying people who just stays in great shape no matter what (seriously, I work out, like, 6 times as much as he does, and I STILL look like I just gave birth, while he looks like he just finished a photo shoot), will sometimes stand in front of a mirror and ask me "Do I look fat?"
He's kidding. And I laugh. But if I didn't love him so much I'd be SERIOUSLY annoyed, lol!

Oh, and David Duchovney, even un-airbrushed, is HOT.

isnt it funny that David was admnitted to rehab for sex addiction?

My boyfriend was telling me last night how his co worker was talking about how he started to go to clubs to meet girls, and my boyfriend asked him "oh are you going to try to get in shape?" I scolded him and told him if a girl asked another girl if she was going to try and get in shape if shes trying to meet guys it would be enough to make her not eat for a week. he just shrugged and said his coworker wasnt offended. I was shocked and speechless. If someone asked me that I would still be crying.

Kelly Turner
www.groundedfitness.com

Personally, I'm just happy to hear someone else besides me climbs up on the toilet to check out their butt in the bathroom mirror.

Go you! You world saver you!

I wonder if David Duchovny climbs up on the toilet to check out his butt in the bathroom mirror.

Good for you for providing the correct answer to your husband, Leslie! Hey, he helps you out, you help him out. It makes sense and you're BOTH totally right. :)

Very funny. Showed hubby too. You guys have really enlightened me to airbrushing, never *knew* about it to that extent before ready you.

That's so sweet! Straight boys are kind of adorable that way. (Gay guys generally seem more hip to that stuff, but way less able to just ignore it).

And I totally get it about the Showtime & HBO dvds. We are always at least one year behind because we're too cheap to subscribe to the current season.

The downside is having to plug my ears and go "la la la la" whenever anyone mentions a favorite cable show that I know I won't be seeing forever.

Yay Dan! It's spreading (and not in an STD kind of way)! Soon everyone will be in on the secret.

And besides, David 'Foxy Mulder' Duchovny is hot enough without airbrushing, just like everyone else who they edit to within an inch of their life these days.

Dan is a super-duper, extraordinarily tuned-in guy when it comes to this stuff in general, I'd say. I think that we need to get him to sign up for a lecture series at sports bars and weight rooms across the country to try to spread the word...

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