Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on Iheart Radio. This week, some guy posted a before and after picture of himself after a serious regimen of working out. A different guy then posted a poll asking people if they thought he looked better before or after.

The results were somewhat surprising.

43% of men thought he looked better after, while only 7% of women responders thought the same.

Now, that's not a perfect 100 because it wasn't 100% of women or men who responded.

24% of men thought he looked better before

and 7% of women thought he looked better after.

A third guy then posted saying,

why do women lie about this?

Like, what is the actual reason?

Of course, the women weren't lying.

In the first picture, the man is mostly fit already.

He isn't cut, but he's not fat or anything like that.

In the second picture, he's in tight little shorts and he's very cut up.

I mean, a 12-pack, not a six-pack.

The responses from women were that the second picture is nice, but it's a little much.

Some women said he seemed more feminine in the second picture.

Some women said his little shorts coated as gay to them.

Other women said the second picture looked like a guy who would spend all his time

talking about weightlifting and macros. I'm sure all of that is true, but the real thing is

that we can't help what we find attractive, and it won't always be what people think.

I talk on here a lot about what is wrong with online dating, the swiping

culture, but I think one of the things is that people think they're supposed to swipe on the

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