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I have watched a few marriages go on the rocks because the wife gained weight, something that happens to many women when they get older, have a man's children and face middle age, etc. And as much as I adore Rush, I cringe when he starts pontificating about women. He's as blind to his own problems as he is deaf to them. I always hear echoes of his failed three marriages.

In this world where so many marriages fail and do horrible damage to children, it wouldn't hurt for a few studies on how men can deal with their sexuality and how what their eyes so can ruin their lives and the lives of their children.

Women don't have the kind of hostility to fat men that men have toward fat women. For instance, you don't see a lot of photographs posted on FR of fat men by women, but it's *hard* to ever get through a thread about the "war of the sexes" without the prerequisite grotesque photo of a fat woman, posted by a gleeful FReeper boy who must have a whole file of them at the ready.

The study was also about people's reaction to fat men. Only men's attitudes towards women were so prejudicial. Imagine hating to look at a woman so much that you want her imprisoned.