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Today the Guardian pointed me in the direction of a story concerning male mannequins made by a company called Rootstein. It seem’s they’ve got a new range coming out soon called the Young & The Restless which is very thin. So far so predictable. Lots of folk are complaining that this shift to super thin impressions of young men is leading to eating disorders, and other issues with body image and this is obviously a very serious subject. It’s worth having a look but as far as I can see we’ve got a long way to go before men are anywhere near as screwed about mentally by fashion. To start with the extent of a man’s choices seem to be JEANS + TSHIRT + HOODY + CHECKED SHIRT. There’s not exactly the levels of hoops to jump through for fear of fug. Yes, sure everything is getting rather narrow but it’ll change, the tight thing is so played out now it’s bound to.

Still, you should maybe have a look at the links I’ll chuck at the bottom.

No, what I wanted to show you was the magical collection of products available from the Rootstein website. Why? Because it’s a pot of metaphorical internet gold obviously!

Meet Ross. He’s your typical Man(nequin) about town. He likes nothing more than curling up naked in his favourite nook and having a think.

Ross works nights with his good pal Ben. They make their living as doormen in their local Laser Quest. It’s important that people having fun have SAFE fun.

Ben is highly qualified for his job as a doorman thanks to his being a black belt in naked karate.

This is the Rootstein’s Chad. He’s your typical, beefcake I.T. assistant who specialises on being sleazy in the staff kitchen. His protein shake breaks seem to have had a terrible side effect of leaving him with a huge puffy pubic mound with no genitals to speak of.

Thankfully Chad is dating CoCo, who works in sales because her own lack of genitals means they needn’t deal with his strange puffy mound. Coco secretly wishes Chad was more like Felix though; a tanned blond beefcake who works in Creative.