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Another exception is actors -- yes, a large percentage of male actors are gay, but even the straight ones fret about their humor pictures bodies. 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 humor pictures who get on the humor pictures 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 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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