He is beautiful

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/may/02/david-beckham-at-50-his-gorgeous-outrageous-life-in-50-pictures

He truly looks gorgeous. I'd never seen it before. I see it now.

the captions are funny

This is not real! He does not look like this in real life 😂

First photo 🥵🔥wowwww

Too greasy looking for me, also he has small eyes.

David is lovely now that he’s aged into his face!

Never understood this one. He always seemed a bit muppety in the face. There I go being mean.
He’s a perfectly nice looking bloke but the extreme adulation is baffling. A bit like the claims Eric Cantona was a poetic genius because he stood out from the crowd and was a great footballer.

It’s a good article - lovely balance of fandom and piss take!

🙄🙄🙄

The piggy little eyes and squeaky voice, not so much . But agree he is looking mighty fit in that first pic OP.

I’ve met DB and he’s just a small wrinkly man. I’m sure he’s got lots of super qualities but he’s not stunningly handsome. He just photographs well.

its not “ogling” it’s appreciating beauty. Like a lovely view. Nothing wrong with that at all. Some humans are beautiful. And given that he’s posed for a pic I his pants I’m not sure he minds a bit of appreciation.

Bloody hell.

OP said he was beautiful. No one is taking about DB in a dehumanising and disgusting way. No women are sinking to men's levels here.

Would you be offended if a man said someone was beautiful?

I've never found him attractive. He's good looking but also average, if that makes sense. You can imagine him being the good looking bloke in the office who fancies himself and is a bit of a player.

While David Beckham strips off to a tiny pair of tight pantaloons and drapes himself across a chair, lighting reflecting off every single taught muscle the man owns, do you think he’s unaware that there will be women (and men) going ‘phwoar’ or do you think he was doing it because he wants us to admire the photography skills? It’s not even about advertising - you can barely see the piece of material he’s marketing. I really wouldn’t worry about objectifying David here or being ‘as bad as men’.

David wants you to look, the only way he could make the fact he wants you to look more obvious is by wafting his todger around your head while doing the Hokey Cokey.

No, the Botox and turkey teeth are a hard no for me.

He's also thick as mince which massively decreases his appeal IMO. Can't be doing with a thicko.

He's a handsome man, sure, but then he opens his mouth. I'm never attracted to looks alone and there's nothing on his personality that appeals to me.

Why though? These people keep themselves very well for the purpose of making money off their appearance. The same as many people who spend thousands on their appearance to look good. There is a billion dollar global industry for making peoples appearances better.
If it were so offensive then everyone would just live with a completely natural appearance and not be worried about anyone else looking at their appearance and thinking they look good or not.
Pretty sure if David Beckham knew this photo of him looking sexy in his pants, whixh he posed for, for a nation newspaper, was being shared on mumsnet, he would take this as a PR win, not be offended.

I'm sure your comment is very eloquent.

But it's fallen on deaf ears because my knowledge of emoji- speak is limited and I don't know what that one means.

Yuck....Jason looks like a monster

True, they take after pouty Victoria

Oh come off it.

If a male forum posted a thread called "isn't she beautiful" about Martina Navratilova for her 50th birthday, I wouldn't give a shit. No one would.

That's not objectification.

It's far more likely that it would be a picture of some tennis player barely out of her teens and what they would like to 'do' to her.

It wouldn't be a female football player at all because the women get far too much abuse from male sports fans to start with.

It's offensive to even compare the this post with male objectification of women. It's pointing one aspect of a person in a respectful way. He's a handsome guy.

FFS, it's early on a Saturday morning, does everything have to be so prim and proper on here? 🙄

Can't we just have a fun thread about appreciating the looks of a very attractive man (for some of us)?

Is your rule the same for men then ?

They can post photos of the women they fancy and discuss their looks and physical attributes and sexiness so long as they do it on a Saturday morning ?

namechangeGOT it’s “ taut” for muscles - guessing it could be predictive text