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Did You Know Looksmaxxers Are All Trying to Look Like Out Gay Actor Matt Bomer?

While you might associate looksmaxxing with heterosexuality and incel culture, it turns out that the patron saint of the perfect face movement is actually an out gay actor: Matt Bomer. In a brand-new feature for The Hollywood Reporter, the trade magazine ranked a bevy of leading Hollywood men based on their physical attraction score, taking into account factors like facial symmetry, the “ratio of facial thirds,” midface length, and a bunch of other measurements that seem to require a B.A. in BS math.Per THR, the person whom practicing looksmaxxers often point to as having the most perfect face — especially the movement’s de facto leader Clavicular — is none other than Fellow Travelers star Matt Bomer.Clavicular, a controversial livestreaming influencer who has popularized the notion of looksmaxxing, has pointed to Bomer as the Gold Standard of Chad Proportions several times, it turns out. In a February interview on the Jock Neel Podcast, Clavicular said that Bomer is the "closest person we get to perfection” and a “True Adam” who gets a 94% “harmony score” for his face.The score is based on a continuum known as the “P.S.L. Scale,” which as the New Yorker explains, takes its name from three tenets of incel culture: Pick-up-artist hate, SlutHate and Lookism. The scale, per the New Yorker, divides people into three tiers: subhuman, normie and Chad, while people who are very high on the scale, such as Bomer, are “True Adams,”— a designation “reserved for mythical figures like Adonis or Apollo, as well as religious icons such as angels or prophets.” A February New York Times profile of Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, even noted that he doesn’t feel his facial symmetry is as good as Bomer’s. Clavicular’s pursuit of perfect proportions hasn’t been without its pitfalls. In June, Clavicular garnered significant backlash for a rhinoplasty procedure he livestreamed with some going so far as to call the result “botched.?

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