New standards for masculinity are stacked against men’s health

This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Whenever the algorithm serves up a steaming pile of looksmaxxing, I flash back to an old sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look . An ordinary woman is told by a commercial narrator that she's "leaking, hairy, aging, overweight, and everything hurts." Women, the smug narrator says,