About

"Dad Bod" is an expression used to describe an adult male physique marked by developed muscle mass accompanied by a protruding stomach referred to as a "beer gut."

Origin

October 15th, 2009, Urban Dictionary^[2] user Topgear1 submitted an entry for "dad bod," defining it as "someone who has the body of a dad."

Spread

The phrase was seldom used online until August 19th, 2014, when the men's interest blog Total Frat Move^[5] published an article titled "Have a Dad Body? Don't Change a Thing." On January 20th, 2015, the Instagram feed College Dad Bods was launched. On March 30th, the pop culture blog The Odyssey^[1] published an article titled "Why Girls Love The Dad Bod," listing several reasons why a man with a beer gut would be considered attractive by women.

On April 29th, Redditor omgilovePopScience submitted The Odyssey article to the /r/fatlogic^[3] subreddit. On April 30th, BuzzFeed^[7] published an article titled "DadBody Is The Body All Men Should Strive For," highlighting several examples of dad bods. On May 2nd, Redditor trpbox submitted a post titled "'The Dad Bod' – Don't you fucking dare buy into it" to the /r/TheRedPill^[4] subreddit. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the "dad bod" trend, including GQ,^[8] Business Insider^[9] and Slate.^[10]

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