As long as we’re taking responsibility, let’s add eating disorders to the list.
Sad part is, just when things were begining to change, with models of all shapes and sizes and people on tv looking like real people, now blow up doll and looks maxing chud are the new ideal, thanks to the brainless scum who have stolen the spotlight.
When all you have is a hammer, every face looks like a nail.
Sorry about that. I have a very old comp that can’t be upgraded to Windows 11 and so have formed the habit—everywhere on the internet, not just on the Dope—of not clicking on links (I will often do a search, myself, to find the material). Not personal: it’s a universal for me.
Anyway, Donald’s increasing interest in men’s bodies is still being discussed. One among many such discussions–
I wonder if the looksmaxxing story is why I for apparently no reason wanted to read the Wikipedia article on Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump today. Subliminal messaging works!
The word could have been created by the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984, although that distopian future would not idolise individualism.
Also, is it the only other “word” (or portmanteau, I suppose) with a double “x”? I dislike “maxxing” but begrudgingly accept it as late 80s/early 90s slang.
“Antivaxxer”.
I’m certain there’s a huge overlap between the two groups of people.
Doxxing/Doxxed
AAAAAaaaaarrrrrghhh…
Yes, but… the word grates me as much as “maxxing” and “vaxxing” and all three have no home in real language outside of The Fresh Prince’s (aka Will Smith) early 90s sitcom.
It’s proper English[1] construction to preserve the short vowel sound, as in hitting or kissing.
If there is such a thing. ↩︎
No joke – my Junior High Gym Teacher used to tell us “Happiness is when you hit yourself in the face with a hammer fifty times, then stop.”
We always felt that he always seemed just a little to happy.
You Junior High Gym Teacher must have had a fantastic jawline, and cheekbones to die for 
Merriam-Webster is keeping up with the times with XX words. Before these came along, the only dictionary words with XX were hundreds of year-old variant spellings found only in the OED. Now M-W has these entries:
vaxx, along with vaxxes, vaxxing, vaxxed
doxx (variant of dox) along with doxxes, doxxed, doxxing
-maxxing, combinative form, such as these:
looksmaxxing
sleepmaxxing
There may be more in the -maxxing crowd.
Anyway, as far as I’m concerned, any headword in an English-language dictionary should be considered a valid English word. YMMV of course.
But that is not generally the case with “x” words: taxed, taxing; faxed, faxing; waxed, waxing. Or words with other vowels: boxed, outfoxed, fixed, hexed.
(Also the root of “kissing” already has a double consonant, so that’s not a good example.)
Don’t forget Exxon!
A bazillion years ago I read that when Standard Oil wanted to reorganize and rebrand itself they wanted a new name. Being international they didn’t want a name that meant something like “horse balls” in some obscure language. It turned out that the only language that had words with a double-X was Maltese. Jimmy Foxx the baseball player was of Maltese ancestry as an example.
So a list of words with two Xs in them that sounded good was drawn up, Exxon was selected, a dictionary was checked, and the rest his history.
And, Exxon’s roots were primarily in Standard Oil of New Jersey, which went by the trade brand Esso (pronounced “S O”) after the breakup of the original Standard Oil. It’s not too complicated an evolution to go from “Esso” to “Exxo,” and then add the “n” on the end.
Perhaps we’ll need a new term: body eumorphic delusion. Or possibly, in this case, dyseumorphic. (I may be the first person to ever ironically combine dys- and eu- in the same coinage.)
Seems…apocryphal. I doubt you’ll find any members of family Foxx on the island of Malta
That’s really good (clear). (Possibly clearer than ‘dyseumorphic’ would be.)
Certainly Donald and his closest enablers are “griftmaxxing.”