So, You wanna get Spanx’d?

Fat Guys copyThere is only one really good thing about being a man, and that is we don’t give a damn what we look like or that our IQs generally hover about the 30 mark (just high enough to invent and repeatedly pry off beer bottle caps). For a few brief years in high school we look OK, but then we begin to let ourselves go and get increasingly larger until 20 years later we look like ginormous walking burrito wrapped in a polo shirt and cargo pants. But unlike women, we simply don’t care what we look like. No matter what the mirror says, no matter how fat or old I get, I can still convince myself that I’m one happnin’ dude. I am positive that my lethargic, knuckle draggin’ 250 pounds is human catnip to the female of the species.

Men discovered that the path to true happiness is complete self-delusion. And I, like most other men, conveniently have that in spades. This is why the cosmetic industry cannot sell us anti-wrinkle cream. We know that shit don’t work and is simply the world’s most expensive chip dip when we run out of salsa. We men wear our wrinkles, thinning hair, and expanding waistlines with an idiotic and unwarranted pride. (And for the record, I do not consider myself to be fat; my wife and kids politely refer to me as “robust.”)

Now, someone (a woman) is trying to convince me that this is not so … She is implying that I don’t look all that hot, that I’ve let myself go. And my girth has become a glaring fashion faux pas. That person is the Georgia gal who cut the feet off a pair of panty hose and named them Spanx. She has made a bazillion dollars convincing women that by pulling on a cut-off pair of panty hose up to their armpits and letting their ankles dangle in the breeze that they will never have to diet again. She really didn’t invent anything new; they used to call these things girdles. They just aren’t made of high-tensile steel, hemp rope and industrial pipe strapping anymore. For a short time during the ‘60s women liberated themselves of them. Now this Spanx person is trying to convince me that my wondrously aging male body needs to be compressed like a seam of coal in the Kentucky wilderness.

This woman has brazenly trespassed onto the hallowed ground of the male ego and invented “Spanx for Men.” Now guys, can you actually say “Hey Dude, I’m wearing Spanx, how does it make my ass look” with a straight face? If you can, you have issues larger than I can help you with. Spanx now comes in a wide variety of styles; one version has a comfy, crotch-hugging thong. Can you imagine, a “compression fit” thong? That particular product may not even be removable; once you put it on its embedded there forever. When you don a compression-fit thong you will need to sport the warning label – Contents Under Pressure: Do not puncture – contents may cause severe eye irritation.

The new “Spanx for Men” claims to do a few things:

  1. It “firms the chest.” Yeah, I guess if I compressed my chest to half its size it would tend to firm up a tad.
  2. It “flattens the stomach.” Why, for God’s sake, would I want to do that? I have to fit food and beer in there; a decent-sized gut is like having extra trunk space in a car.
  3. It “Improves posture.” Apparently it contains whalebone and PVC piping to help me to stay upright when I black out from lack of blood circulation.
  4. It “supports the lower back.” So does my couch and I much prefer wearing my couch.
  5. “No bulk under clothes”: Well, I suppose if don’t get into my clothes, there won’t be any bulk under them, cuz I am the bulk under my clothes. But I don’t see how this helps.

Spanx advertises features such as “high stretch with ultimate shaping.” What does this mean? That I can reach the top shelf without groaning and my ass looks good while doing it? A man’s ass doesn’t have a “shape” and there is nothing “ultimate” about it; just ask my wife.

Spanx are “ergonomic.” WTF? Ergonomic means designed for maximum comfort. How does “compressing me into a smaller person” make me more comfortable? I follow the natural laws of the universe, like it, I am constantly expanding. The laws of physics should not be fucked with.

Spanx has “36-gauge stitching.” That’s several more gauges than my shotgun, so we are talkin’ some super-serious stitching here.

Spanx has “Invisible Flat Lock Side Seams.” Nothing says comfort like Flat Lock.

Spanx has “natural cotton fiber for breathability” Yes, breathing is important, I do it constantly, and I don’t wish to stop due to a garment that is part Boa Constrictor.

Spanx also has “moisture control.” Apparently when your body is compressed to 450 times atmospheric pressure you need to control the urine and other body fluids being squeezed from your body.

On the Spanx website they use the same marketing device that has fooled women for centuries; they are selling a product for dumpy 50-year-olds using super-hot 21-year-old models. Well, men, don’t fall for this old advertising trick. I spotted the 21-year-old male model on the website right off and rather than think I will ever look like this dude, I immediately developed an intense and deep hatred for him. Why? … Because he doesn’t need a compression shirt! Every model on that website “is a model” for chrissake! Everything on that model is right where it should be. I’m lucky if all my parts are in the same room at the same time. At night I can remove about six of my body parts and put them on my night stand, it resembles that “Body Farm” place in Tennessee. The models all have six packs; I have a keg. They flex lean, mean muscles. When I flex, something sounds like its breaking. They all have a body mass of zero, I have a massive body … Hell, I have shoes that weigh more than these guys. Why don’t they use guys who look like me on the website? I’ll tell you why, cuz when you compress 250 pounds of fat, bone and blubber inside a rubberized t-shirt, you don’t look like the models on the website or George Clooney, you look like a desperate, pathetic fat guy exploding out of a shirt that is 10 sizes too small.

Let’s assume for a minute that these Spanx things can really do their job and turn my ginormous Size 70 Peterbuilt ass into a Size 3 petite. Now the whole point of stuffing yourself into a high-tech fabric sausage casing is to look good for the opposite sex, is it not? The end result I expect for most men would hopefully be a rendezvous in the boudoir, with an attractive partner, sans clothing. Tell me Einstein, what happens when you’ve finally made it back to the bedroom with some comely lass who is ready to rumble and you finally strip away the last vestiges of lard support? When the lady in question sees the human equivalent of the Aswan Dam break and observes a raging wall of blubber billow forth, expanding to its original unencumbered size, will she still make eyes at you and say, “Oh, dahling, bring that Chunka Chunka of burning love over here to mama? I don’t know about you, but I’m guessing for most women the magic fades a bit when a Harry the Hunk endomorphs into Mac the Manatee.

So men, don’t let them Spanx you. I, for one, am not going to take this insult to my lush physique lying down, (actually I am lying down, but I digress) I have invented a new product for men as well. It’s something men will love and revel in … It’s a shirt made out of cheese and I’m going to outsell that Spanx lady by a billion dollars!

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6 thoughts on “So, You wanna get Spanx’d?”

    1. Dude! I’m with ya, I live self-delusion all day long … it’s that damn Spanx girl that is screwin’ things up.
      Regards,
      T

    1. I’ll see what I can do, I’m all out of the “Gouda” ones – but I have one in Brie that will go with a decent Zinfandel.
      Regards,
      T

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