This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways), we interpret the Dadbod as key to a certain kind of narrative of male retreatism from the increasingly anxious ethos of bodily regulation and age transcendence. The Dadbod suggests an alternate, possibly more radical, incarnation of the ‘body positivity’ which more commonly serves as a regulation-by-another-name discourse for women.

本文考虑了一种在现代男性学问中被忽视的身体类型的文化意义：“ Dadbod”。抵制流行文化对中年隐身的典型偏爱，Dadbod的大腿形体形（通常带有“爱的手柄”）使双方的话语成为庆祝和op亵的对象。在名人和生活方式讨论中都很普遍（通常是相互矛盾的），我们将达博德解释为从日益焦虑的身体调节和年龄超越的精神中，对男性撤退进行某种叙事的关键。达博德（Dadbod）提出了“身体积极性”的另一种可能的替代形式，可能更激进地化身，这种现象更普遍地用作女性的另一种说法。