The Dad Bod is GTO

The other day I saw a post on X about this guy’s super impressive physical transformation – and what men and women thought about it.

This dude got absolutely shredded, and 80% of the women who answered the survey preferred him before!

Predictably, us men are flabbergasted as to why. I thought the replies were pretty interesting.

Most of the came down to some version of this:

Women feel like they’re being judged 24/7 by the world and their peers. So when they get home, they don’t want to spend time with someone counting their macros and weighing their food.

Maybe this is obvious, but I thought it was pretty counterintuitive and interesting. I’m taking it as proof that the dad bod is GTO (game theory optimal).

Of course, there is a female equivalent to this phenomenon as well: