There comes a moment in people’s lives where it becomes extremely interesting to see how our parents and grandparents used to live when they were our age or even younger, what were their hobbies, or what funny things they used to come up with. Having this in mind, one Twitter user @fabiansociety decided to share his findings with others online. These included some pictures from a beefcake calendar dated back in the 1980s. What made it extraordinary was the fact that this calendar was created by his mom and her sisters, who showed how a simple yet daring idea can turn into something professional-looking and hilarious even after many years.
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One Twitter user decided to share a project that his mom and her sisters were working on back in the '80s
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The man started his now-viral thread with 61K likes by stating that back in the ‘80s, his mom and her sisters made a calendar called “Every Woman’s Fantasy”. This calendar featured various good-looking men doing household chores such as washing dishes, vacuuming, folding laundry, ironing clothes, cleaning windows, etc. The very first page of the calendar of the year 1988 stated that it portrays "Real men doing what real women wish they'd do."
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They created a calendar "Every Woman's Fantasy" that showed handsome men doing some of the household chores
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The man decided to share some of the details on how the women pulled together such a nice-looking calendar
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In the thread, the man revealed more details about this calendar. Despite it looking like a professionally made publication ready to be distributed for the masses, it was actually created by his mom and her sisters who also received some help from their mom. It was shared that the men in the calendar were “randomly” approached by them, later revealing that some men in the pictures were in fact models, but they mainly invited good-looking men who weren’t actual models, so that the calendar would also feature some “regular hot dudes.”
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The women did everything by themselves, using all the things that they had in their home
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It all started as a simple project where the women did everything by themselves: trying to find the right men, setting the scenes, and finding the needed props, with their mom, the Twitter user’s grandmother, taking pictures. Later she was “promoted” to a director and given her own director’s chair.
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The man even revealed how the women were able to find models for their calendar
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In order to find men suitable for this project, they even made professional cards and handed them to men, so that they could come and try their luck. Even though this project didn’t take off to extent that these calendars were sold in numerous copies, it seemed to be a fun activity for the women at that time and a great thing to remember now. According to the Twitter user, what he learned from this story is that you can do whatever you want as long as you have your mind set on it, without having much experience or a lot of additional perks.
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Despite being approached by some professional models, the creators wanted them to be ordinary yet good-looking men
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This story made a lot of people online curious and invested. Some even remember seeing this calendar somewhere, and one Twitter user even recognized his uncle in one of the pictures. What is also important is that this shared memory sparked a debate online on how the roles of men and women were seen and are seen to this day. A lot of people shared their own experiences of how household chores are divided in their homes.
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Despite the calendar not taking off, the copy that saw the light of the day seemed to become a real hit years later
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The Twitter user also explained why the calendar was called "beefcake"
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And also shared the important lesson behind this hilarious project
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Another Twitter user was able to find his uncle who posed for the calendar
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