Why do women care so much about their weight?

[Anonymous]

I’ve noticed that many women seem to care a lot about their weight, sometimes more than people around them expect. Why do you think this happens? Is it mainly social pressure, personal preference, media influence, or something else? I’d love to hear different perspectives on why weight becomes such a big deal for many women.

[msc545]

I think that women care a lot about their weight because men reject them if they are overweight, and of course, women don't want that. It's the same reasons that men care so much about their height, but the big difference is that women can do something about their weight. Men cannot do anything, with the exception of excruciating and expensive surgery. Men are born that way, and it is genetic, and there is not a thing we can do about it unless we literally have our legs broken and spend about a hundred thousand dollars and be in pain for six months or a year. That is the alternative to not being tall enough for women to accept, which is usually 6 feet or more.

Quite honestly, I don't think most women are worth the expense or the pain that we would have to go through to give them what they want in this regard- not to mention all the other things they want, like a ton of money and the good looks of a model. I prefer to patronize prostitutes as opposed to putting up with this kind of bullshit.

[Asker]

That is true.
I am 166 cm and never had a girlfriend.
How tall are you?

[msc545]

I'm 6'3", but I don't think that's ever been a big advantage for me. I like to think that the advantages I have are:
1. I am a kind person
2. I am very empathic
3. I am very well educated

[OneViewpoint]

Apparently a lot of women (and men) in the USA don't give a shit about their weight. Because we have an obesity (and health) crisis that has been ongoing for a couple of decades.

[msc545]

We do have an obesity epidemic to some extent, but it is extremely hard to lose weight by dieting and exercise when you are overweight at the beginning of those attempts. The new class of GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic may change that a great deal. I think the only thing that's keeping more people from using those drugs right now is that they are still very expensive.

[OneViewpoint]

@msc545 ,

It's easiest to never get obese in the first place and develop basic fitness habits. Fast food, processed foods, and horrible parenting / role models are the root cause. Drugs are dealing with the aftereffects of failure in the first place.

[msc545]

The thing about obesity that other people don't seem to understand is that it is usually genetically mediated to a much greater extent than people think it is. And for economic reasons, it is very easy to gain weight because healthy food just simply costs a lot more money then unhealthy foods and it also is frequently easier to get in general. In many cases, people find the taste of unhealthy food to be better so from a behavioral standpoint it is a much stronger Reinforcer than other healthier foods. All of this increases the probability of people becoming obese that otherwise would not.

[lightbulb27]

Women are all about feeling desired. When that goes, their value drops and that can feel bad until they develop some other form of self worth.

It's a reproductive thing...

[beefcakebradybatson]

Most lads shun fat lasses.(Even most of us black lads.)

[exitseven]

Because guys generally do not like fat women.

[Anonymous]

Because men do not like fat/overweight women.