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| photographs, camera, hop, beddoes, chicago cubs, biggest name in music for multimedia, canon, fat man adventure, headlines, 0880016493, bikini atoll, fun links, lipophilia, cars, old time radio, b 29 superfortress, nostalgia, caroline petit, | In their cases, though, body insecurity tends to run from head to toe, starting with thinning hair and going all the way down to "too short" legs. Those guys have it rough. What I find really interesting about the "fat jock" phenomenon, though, is that a lot of the male fans who get maniac mansion on the fat jock's case are fat themselves, sometimes even fatter than the fat jock is. Even though *they* aren't thin, they think somehow the jock owes it to his public to be so. You wonder if it isn't a form of maniac mansion self-loathing transference, taking out on the jock what they hate about themselves. Posted by ajoyce on November 11, 2003 11:49 PM. I absolutely agree with that statement. Acknowledging this should not be interpreted as diminishing the societal pressures on fat men, but it would just be profoundly unfair and unrealistic to act like they are the same. |
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| An amendment to the above: A notable exception to the above "straight guys don't care about being headlines fat" dictum is professional athletes (exceptions within the exception: football and sumo wrestling). For a baseball or basketball player, 20 "extra" pounds could result in widespread harassment, fines from his team, and possibly even the loss of his job. Let us not forget the example of poor Steve headlines Bechler, that Orioles rookie who died trying to lose a few pounds he'd put on during the offseason, headlines knowing that he probably wouldn't make the team unless he did. And of course, anorexia and bulimia are widespread problems for male jockeys, who are expected to be much lighter than the average male in order to compete in horse racing. Another exception is actors -- yes, a large percentage of male actors are gay, but even the straight ones fret about their bodies. |
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