Thin & Thinner

Disclaimer: I mean no offence to fat men or thin men or diet-addicted females. I am just expressing my opinion.

A friend has written about women and weight loss. His views include a lot of very misogynistic comments, which I prefer to overlook, for now. But the part that interested me the most was where he talks about how almost every woman is jealous of every woman thinner than her.

Now this, I thought at that time, was absolute nonsense. And I still think it is. Only I am sure that a lot of women are jealous of those who are slightly thinner than them. The operative word here is ‘slightly’. No woman can be jealous of a stick insect. Here I exclude all anorexics and bulimics. I feel sorry for them but they definitely have a mental problem.
I too sometimes wish I had a slimmer frame, (to say the least). But I must say that I pity all those girls and women who starve themselves in order to lose a few pounds and since these starving sessions rarely can be sustained, and almost always end with a huge eating binge, they gain all those precious pounds in a matter of days. I have a couple of friends who do this and listen to no reason when they are on one of their ‘slimming strikes’. One of them even threw away all the chocolates in her fridge!I have no idea how she could do that when there are plenty of food-aholics like me surrounding her...
Another one proceeds to starve whenever it strikes her that she has put on weight. She also imagines often that she has lost weight. The rest of us just politely and patiently indulge her. What is the sad part of all this is that it becomes an obsession with these people. The only thing they notice about everyone and everybody they see is how fat/thin they are. Every time they pass any reflecting surface, they look at themselves to see whether they ‘look’ fat or not.

But this post was not about these silly girls. This post was going to be about how a lot of women don’t like thin guys. Thin guys. I wonder why that is so. Because most of the time we,women obsess about weight, it is to become thinner. Or slimmer. Yet slim/thin guys are not desirable. For prospective friends, there is no such issue. But when looking at a guy from a romantic perspective, I have noticed that ‘thin’/slim guys mostly go to the bottom of the list. (Or should I say ladder?) Why? The only proper reason I could come up with is that all women have a loathing to be fatter/wider than their better halves. This could be because if they were, they wouldn’t be able to protect her and keep her safe. After all, protecting her and keeping her safe must involve lifting her in his arms and running away dodging bullets in slow motion, shouldn’t it? This is not to say that most women like obese men. They don’t. In fact I am of the opinion that most of them loathe them even more than they do thin men. After all, a thin man can at least run with her at his side, whereas an obese man would probably slow her down as well.

And all that being said.. I would like to add that a thin, balding better half is one of my recurring nightmares! Add bifocals, protruding teeth and a really bad accent and you have my worst one, yet!

P.S. My friend, Lakshmi, has written about her views on smoking.. and they are strong views to say the least...It might also interest y'all to know, that I am the friend mentioned in her post...