Because obesity - like everything else, it seems, has a special way of harming women more than men in our society. Overweight women are devalued in a ton of ways that overweight men aren't.
The hourly wage of fat women is, on average, 20% lower than the pay of a woman of average weight. But slimmers be warned: underweight women also take home slimmer pay packets than average women do. However, skinny women make up for this in the marriage market: they marry men with the highest earnings. Husbands of skinny women earn on average 45% more than those of fat ones.
Men, it seems, are different. Underweight men take home by far the lowest earnings, while slightly overweight men enjoy the fattest pay-packets - 26% more than their underweight colleagues.
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/money_politics_law/rules_of_attraction.htmAnd that, mind you, is with women starting with an overall lower salary, on average.
However, I still do jump in and do battle sometimes. I hope any overweight dudes here will take note, and likewise jump in to complain or alert when they see women being objectified and degraded on DU.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=890210#894225
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