The "ideal male body" in the last article in the series (in a picture from a tweet) is Fedor Emelianenko, a legendary heavyweight MMA fighter (and that's really understating it).<p>Of course Fedor is no body-builder, but 80% of males on the planet would probably find it very hard to reach Fedor's physique, even if they trained as hard as he must have.<p>Anyway Fedor became legendary for his skill and his technique, not his physique. In the olden days of MMA, when men fought like men, in the ring, rather than like animals in a cage, Fedor made his name by bringing down enemies bigger and stronger than himself in a sport were you don't win on points; and also of course for exhibiting something that approached chivalry and honour, as much as such can be found in any sport where two grown men turn each other's face to mush for a crowd's entertainment.<p>I digress. Fedor's is not the ideal male body. The ideal male brain, maybe - for a time of war, certainly. But he's a professional fighter and most males aren't. Holding his body up as the ideal male physique is committing the same sin of unnatural over-otpimisation the rest of the article (very clumsily, I find) supports.