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Eat Like A Man, But Don't Get Fat

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:39:15 +0000

On the heels of Esquire's meat and chili-filled "Eat Like a Man" section comes this story by Zach Weisberg about how obese people face job discrimination, and how some companies are offering incentives for employees to slim down.

Practicing outright fat discrimination is deplorable no matter who you are, but this can be a particularly charged issue for men. Eating heartily is a classic trademark of being a "real man," a notion reinforced by TV Dinners, and fast-food joints like Hardee's (or Carl's Jr.) and Burger King. In order to be masculine, it seems you have to have the intestinal fortitude of a steel lumberjack, and must eat fatty food, such as burgers and wings. In order to get or keep a job, however, you're expected to stay fit and trim so you don't raise your company's health-insurance premiums.

While Esquire is asking why pushing people to be "healthier" (read: not be fat) is a bad thing, it simultaneously spends precious pages in its print edition on blatantly seductive shots of food and articles about steakhouses in Montana that serve giant slabs of beef on a plate. At least women's magazines are consistent enough to fill their pages with stick-thin models and make you feel bad about eating.

Welcome to the world of conflicting standards, boys.

—Rachael Oehring

Esquire's 2010 'Eat Like a Man Issue,' ADHD Edition

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:47:33 +0000

In Esquire's April issue (subscribe), sandwiched between a March Madness bracket of hot women and pictures of Amanda Seyfried in a lace body stocking, is their annual "Eat Like A Man" section. The largely print-only 10-page boob-diversion is filled with manly fawning over steak and bacon, and judicious use of the word piss. The only thing that will make you more of a man is eating cigarette butts.

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Esquire's 'Eat Like A Man' ADHD Edition

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:17:23 +0000

The September issue of Esquire magazine hit the shelves recently, and while normally this would go unnoticed here, this particular issue has a large food-related feature, subtlety titled, "How To Eat Like A Man Now." We don't know much about Esquire readers in 2009, and had been under the impression that they were a discerning lot. You know, brand name jeans, a touch of cologne, friends of bartenders, lovers of ladies.

We were wrong, and apparently the Esquire readership now skews to the club-totin', "bash your wimmin over the head and drag them to the cave" set. Here we have the ADHD edition of "How To Eat Like A Man Now", in which otherwise sane cooks (Paula Deen notwithstanding) share their beliefs about what it takes to Feed A Man.

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Mary-Louise Parker Naked Save for an Apron, Baking a Pie

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:30:54 +0000

Here's a somewhat NSFW photo set of Mary-Louise Parker in the August 2009 issue of Esquire of her working dough in lingerie and holding a finished pie naked, save for an apron. One might ask: Why is she baking a pie naked?

Well, there just so happens that the article has an attached recipe in a sidebar, "Hot to Make a Pie by Mary-Louise Parker" that offers advice such as "For a yummy, richer crust, brush with heavy cream and sprinkle with raw sugar from the packets at Starbucks." So there.

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