If a female celebrity gains weight, everyone knows. If a male does, it could be in a magazine…it won’t be the cover. Not as often as a female.
There are plenty of roles in movies for overweight men. Overweight women are seen as ugly, and aren’t ever even the comic relief like overweight men in movies…and if they’re talented, they’re still overlooked because they’re fat. Or told to lose weight.
And speaking of which, if there’s a fat guy on TV or in a movie, he can still get laid in the story, or have a girlfriend. Fat girls can’t, and don’t. They’re the comic relief…not because they’re funny, but because they’re fat and "unappealing".
There are tons of "fat chick" jokes, "yo mama" fat jokes, so on and so forth.
If an overweight woman wears a bikini, people act as if it’s a catastrophe, it’s simply not nice to look at. If an overweight man wears a swimsuit…frankly, he’s not mocked as much. It always seems like overweight women are expected to cover up more…but not men.
It just appears to be that fat women aren’t as socially acceptable as fat men. This isn’t true for every single case in the world, but from my experience they are. Why? They’re both fat. They’re both people. It seems like "fat chick" has become a label among some (not in my school, thank god). It’s so wrong.
And why is it in that every woman’s magazine you’ll find weight loss tips, body acceptance guides, way more than in male magazines?
Why are women targeted? Why are they the butt of jokes, the unattractive ones, why are there more fat male actors than female actors? Why do women have to be the sexy ones? What, if we’re not appealing to every male we’re useless? If we enjoy food we’re useless? I’m not even fat and I’m pissed. Why don’t men have to slave over themselves to be beautiful? Why were some men suddenly mad that the movie 300 promoted muscular men with impossible bodies? Why is it that it’s okay for a woman to starve herself and throw up during filming to stay impossibly thin, but as soon as a guy’s body is impossible some men get their feelings hurt?
Why is it that when a woman points all of this out, she’s automatically called a pissy feminist on her period?

What’s sad is in my life fat people, in general, aren’t made fun of. But in the media…dear god, don’t read that crap.

This isn’t a ‘spiritual’ answer but…I think the vast majority of the abusiveness in this world is about the self-conscious ranking of people for the sake of Somebody feeling a little bit better about being a little bit higher,’better’, than somebody else. The prejudices, the ‘war between the sexes’, real wars, genocide; how much of these could exist without that need to be superior to somebody else? Our media-driven society has utterly surrendered to the sale of this idea that you must win some contest, meet some standard They have placed before you or you aren’t Normal, you’re not worthy. They want to put us back in the jungle to beat each others’ brains out and sell tickets to the rest of them who want to drool over the whole mess. It’s absolutely REVOLTING how people live to blow their noses all over somebody for any reason at all. When you find ONE thing no one has ever used to bag on somebody else, tell me; I really do want to know…