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Sunday Reads: The Cult of Fabio, Women of the Manosphere and the State of Nudes at the Workplace

I dare you to think of a male model you know by name that isn’t Fabio. No, Danny DeVito, Bernie Sanders and Steve Buscemi don’t count. There has to be someone of the male gender who has appeared in a Calvin Klein ad or walked the runway whose name we can actually recite without any thought whatsoever. 

Okay, I’m stumped, too.

So maybe the better question is, how the hell did Fabio become so ubiquitous in the first place? 

As Brian VanHooker explains, margarine is largely responsible. 

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