For reasons that I won't get into, I have been watching a lot of daytime soap operas (particularly "All My Children") and am absolutely blown away by the imposing size of the male actors.

Have they always been this huge? Sure, it's improbable but nevertheless socially accepted that every woman in Pine Valley would resemble a stage-ready Miss America contestant - but I find it even more unlikely that every man would look like a Men's Health cover model.

Is muscle worshiping suddenly standard among housewives? I mean, these men are enormous - and they are given a wardrobe that seems to purposefully showcase their bulging arms and heaving pecs. I'm assuming the actors are contractually obligated to be large, unless all of them just happen to have a serious interest in bodybuilding. Either way, the actor's mass in most instances seriously upstages his performance to the point of distraction. Like, I tense up when Ryan embraces Kendall, for fear of his fatally crushing her.

Good Lord - now one of the male characters is wearing a sleeveless T-shirt. Not only do all the men of Pine Valley spend too much time at the gym, but they are probably gay, too.