This post was inspired by Meghan O’Keefe who wrote Dear Ryan Gosling… please stop where she implores Ryan Gosling to, well, stop being so Ryan Gosling, because he’s made it so difficult for other men to measure up. I know how she feels, because Tom Hardy is my benchmark of where I measure men on the awesome spectrum. And here’s why. Tom Hardy is imperfectly perfect Tom Hardy shouldn’t be handsome, but he is. His features, taken separately, are not classically good-looking. His nose is a tad too big, his lips a touch too pillowy. His teeth are crooked, and

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