Teh Gaze Thread

[Menace]

My beard is opressing everyone. Sorry im no longer in control... :^|

 

[Sandman]

#Menace'sBeardForPresident

 

[Paragon049]

So making an issue seem one sided and not mentioning the other side is raising awareness for everyone? I can't see how that begins to make sense lol. If too much of media is focused on promoting fat women and next to none for promoting fat men. There becomes an imbalance of perception. We automatically assume women suffer from this problem more. Which doesn't seem close to reality.

And I don't disagree that women are perceived differently in terms of sexuality. But in terms of media, it tends to balance out. Look at the news for instance. The man is older, well groomed, and distinguished. The woman anchor is always younger, wears a dress, and tons of make up. Both men and women are adhering to social norms and what people want to look at. In terms of weight, both men and woman are perceived as comic relief when they are fat. Men in media have plenty of problems. For instance, the red carpet, men are pretty much expected to only wear black suites. Women can wear a ton of different things though.

To say women have it worse with 0 evidence is foolish.

If I need to keep reiterating points, I'm not going to continue arguing about this (It's not something I'm personally invested in anyway, being neither a woman nor overweight). I've already explained three times now that fat acceptance is a pansexual movement at its core, and the focus on women is due to other societal factors. I have no idea why you're so bothered that women (who have been treated like shit across the planet for most of human history including current times) would like to have a bit more exposure than men in regards to this. There's no risk of an imbalance in perception in the other direction because men are already represented (and represented well, at that) more than enough in basically everything. The idea that fat men will somehow become invisible because of female fat awareness is laughable, and could only possibly be believable if you live in a fantasy world where the "feminazis" are out to destroy men. People assume women suffer more from fat shaming because women in general continue to be treated badly even in first world countries (And for the reasons I stated in previous posts).

Societal norms, and by extension gender roles, are idiotic as a whole and not something I'm really going to get into right now (You can read all about them on your own if you'd like, there's a ton of good writing and research about them). Women being expected to be young, wearing tons of makeup and revealing clothes, and attractive is a much bigger problem overall than men being expected to wear a suit and be clean cut.

 

[fukou_da_man]

Are you a feminist, Paragon?

 

[ThatDarnNinja]

is it genetics or bad fat parents passing down their terrible eating habbits to their children who dont know any better?

Uh, yeah, that's genetics! That's all diet coke, you shitlord, she eats just fine!