Although I doubt anyone thinks of me as a “hipster”.  Whatever the hell that is.

“I sort of think the six-pack abs obsession got so prissy it stopped being masculine,” is how Aaron Hicklin, the editor of Out, explains the emergence of the Ralph Kramden. What once seemed young and hot, for gay and straight men alike, now seems passé. Like manscaping, spray-on tans and other metrosexual affectations, having a belly one can bounce quarters off suggests that you may have too much time on your hands.

And I especially liked what Althouse had to say on her blog about it:

Why does there need to be any special reason for a man to have a potbelly? It’s the natural tendency. You only need a reason not to have a potbelly, and it needs to be good enough to offset the natural tendency.

I just wish she had stopped there, because I could have done without this:

The fact is, it is more important for a man to fight the natural rounding of the belly than it is for a woman, because a round belly is feminizing. It speaks of fertility and pregnancy. The “pregnant man” has never been a good look.

You know, I’ve pretty much reached the point where I just accept my roundness.  Living in a country full of extraordinarilly thin people is balanced out somewhat by the large Buddhist population.  I mean, how many people can truthfully say they have the body of a God?

Yeah, yeah, six pack abs are ok too.  But why stop there?  I’ve got a freakin’ keg goin’ on here!

And I occasionally where shorts…