<p>I was way overweight two years ago. I felt no pressure to take it off from others.</p>
<p>Two of my brother-in-laws are obese. They are also financially well-off. They could easily afford a program to take the weight off but they don’t. Their spouses (my sisters) are unhappy with their weight but they don’t pressure them on it.</p>
<p>I’m sure that some women do pressure their SOs to lose weight. But it isn’t that big a deal for guys to accept other guys that are overweight.</p>
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<p>I’m talking about acceptance in society - not spouse selection which is different. Do women think more poorly of other overweight women or other overweight men? How do you think men think of overweight women compared to overweight men?</p>
<p>“Men can just wear shorts.”
-Out of 9 places that I have worked, they were allowed only at one. Sorry, poor man are stuck with long pants. well cross derssers would not agree, but they still cannot wear skirts to work although they are free to do so out of office, this is not a crime.
"I was merely responding to one of your points. "
I do not have any point about covering fat with the skirt. My point is that skirt is much more comfortable when one is bulging out in all direction. I meant it is more comfortable in a physical sense, not in a sense of looking good or bad or pleasing somebody. Sorry for confusion.</p>
<p>I’d say that I was allowed to wear shorts at all but maybe two companies that I worked for and those were when I was doing consulting work - though there were clients where shorts were okay in the summer.</p>
<p>My office right now is 74 degrees with a relative humidity of 37% which is fine for shorts or long pants.</p>
<h1>21–It may be a regional difference as well. Midwesterners and the south have high obesity rates, so it may be more acceptable for men to be obese.</h1>
<p>I still suspect athletic, fit men gain preference in hiring, just like thin women do. A product of media images, perhaps, but this is cetainly a societal attitude. Corporations prefer to put someone forward who conjures images of power, self-control, and fitness. </p>
<p>As for your question–women think poorly of both overweight men and women. Perhaps some women do not vocalize it to their spouses out of kindness, but you can bet they would prefer six pack abs to six pack evenings.</p>
<p>Men, I suspect, believe the beer commercials—the myth that hot women will fall all over pudgy men with beer. This is a sales tactic. The hot ladies go for the hot males who are playing the game, not the out of shape males watching the game.</p>
<p>"The hot ladies go for the hot males who are playing the game, not the out of shape males watching the game. "
-The hot ladies go for the rish men, as long as he is a notch more attractive than gorilla, but he really does not have to be way above this level. I would say that even midgets have very fair chance…</p>
<p>^ Wow! You really don’t think very highly of attractive woman, do you MiamiDAP? There are a certain sub-set who actually marry for love. Now, a lot can go into that for each person…attractive doesn’t hurt, kind, intelligent, mutual interests, financially stable, etc. Everyone has their criteria of what makes a good mate. I can honestly say I don’t have a single friend, or neighbor for that matter, that married a knuckle dragger simply for his money. Perhaps that’s because I’m relatively young and we’re all on our first marriages. ;)</p>
<p>If you wanted to cover fat, MiamiDap, the long, cute summer dresses help to achieve an illusion of length and slenderness. A skirt would actually crop your figure if you are bulging out in all directions making you look pudgier. The slightly above the knee dresses with batwing or kimono sleeves also flatter the curvier women.</p>
<p>And to continue the deep water dive…Not all hot women are gold diggers. ;)</p>
<p>Ahhhh, I wrongfully assumed ‘she’ was a ‘he’ and took the defensive. Fair or not, it’s always easier to laugh at those jokes when they come from another woman. Thanks for the heads up!</p>
<p>Where to start…
Sorry but we do discriminate against fat guys as well as fat women.</p>
<p>On the kilt issue, it is a look that not all guys can carry off. Besides, in my workplace, I suspect that a kilt would not be covered by our dress code. Our rules say that Guayabera shirts don’t have to be tucked in, but my polo shirt does.</p>
<p>Perhaps I should make an appeal on cultural grounds.</p>
<p>We saw some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Colorado this summer. That may account for the skirt observation. My CU D favors shorts, but I could see why others would reach for skirts.</p>
<p>Definitely so at my daughter’s highschool - even in the winter. I think the down turn of the economy has diverted the usual Abercrombie and Fitch/Hollister crowd to places like Forever 21, Charlotte Russe who carry lots of cute, inexpensive skirts.</p>
<p>Forever 21 may be cheap but it has surpassed A&F/Hollister in my girls crowd who previously shoppped heavily at those places.</p>
<p>I think jeans are becoming more of an investment too- hence the popularity of True Religion, Silver, Rock Revival etc… The girls seem to own fewer pairs but the ones they do own are more expensive.</p>
<p>"Wow! You really don’t think very highly of attractive woman, do you MiamiDAP? "
-Yes, I do. Attractive woman has a brain also and understand that buff man means nothing. The man with brain will make himself well to do. And this reflects the truth except in cases when attractive woman really has nothing under scull.
However, it has nothing to do with wearing skirts. You have brains or not, skirts are just much more comfortable especially in a summer and when you have your bulge in front of you.</p>
<p>…BTW I am way passed looking pretty or anything of this nature, just way way too old for any of these. I just care about comfort and color my hair on my H’s demand HE IS the man with brains BTW, so I listen)</p>
<p>How we dress and how we style/color our hair should be for us, how WE as women choose to look, groom, be/feel comfortable. The days of doing it because some male told us to should be left back in the dark ages.</p>
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