Lesbians more likely to be overweight than straight women, study finds

And gay men more likely to be body obsessed than straight men! Seems pretty clear the problem here is male expectations.

I guess it makes sense biologically, since there is no chance of procreation.

Well, it’s not they’re stressing over fitting into something cute and stylish.

Ever.

God bless their hearts.

No, it's not about male expectations. It's about the kind of expectations of the partner YOU want.

Men who are old and want young, beautiful women (or men) better have money or power.

Women who are young and want to marry young, desirable men will probably need to be good candidates for motherhood.

Young, poor gay men will most likely want to be fit and attractive to get worthwhile dates.

Etc, etc. Just like getting a job. Want a Wall Street job? Get an MBA, dress in a suit. Want to be a tattooist? Be artsy and outrageous and sexy and tattooed. There's no one "type" that fits all people, or all jobs.

This "blame men" idea has got to stop.

I adore the idea of a Datalounge Science Lab.

In the Lesbo world the older, fatter, and uglier you are------the more you are in demand!

Minority stress?

It's all about finding your inner goddess.

R5, yes! Lab coats and goggles all around.

It won't stop on DL , R4 . Too many fat, angry, man-hating dykes.

R8 gross . Obese.

A study also found gay men are more likely to suck cock than lesbians.

They clearly didn't include feminine penises in that study, R12.

You bitch about us if we are fat and bitch about us if we are skinny vegans. I used to think I wanted to be a gay guy in my next life. No way after being on DL for the last 15 years. I want to come back as a lesbian in my next life too.

R14 Does this mean we are not invited to your Thanksgiving dinner this year?

We bitch about you because you're here, sweetheart. And this ain't your forum. But you stay anyway. Clogging up the threads.

All these fat lezbos can die of heart disease like all the fat gay bears.

R15, I make the best vegan dressing!

Overeating is self-medication. (ie shitty childhood) Nobody wants to be ugly and fat, and I've never met a happy, content fat person. It's uncomfortable, sweaty, heavy and unattractive. Which leads me to conclude that lesbians are not as happy as straight women.

No they aren't. They're angry. And they hate men. But they do love being sloppy and unkempt like a straight man.

[quote]Lesbians more likely to be overweight than straight women, study finds

They need a "study" for this?

They should try aerobics. It's what I do.

That's why they need canes.

Gertrude was "hefty." But I kept slim on my hash brownies.

R14, I’m glad you’re here.

We need the cross-pollination of experience and perspectives.

Thank you Eldergay, that was very much appreciated.

Not been my experience in the Southern US at least.

Lesbians are more likely to be into fitness or sports here, and straight women go straight to "fluffy" the minute they have the first baby, and don't look back.

[QUOTE]All these fat lezbos can die of heart disease like all the fat gay bears.

Bears aren’t fat. We’re muscular.

I wonder if Kim ever fixed that side mirror on the Subaru....?

Lesbians aren't as obsessed as straight women are about looking like an underage child, the thing straight men like to fuck? I guess.

Or pretending like they're supposed to have a male BMI rather than a female BMI--(25% body fat) ?

R29, what's THAT supposed to mean?

Male BMI - around 13ish

Female BMI - around 25ish.

From the article:

The study published in the Journal of Public Health indicated the reverse is true for men, with gay men less likely to be overweight than their straight counterparts and more at risk of being underweight.

Hard to eat when you don't get paid a normal salary like a piece of shit breeder bi/straight dude, right?

Weird that so many here fetishize straight men when most of them are fat as hell

With a female BMI i.e. 20+, R25.

19.5 BMI is not overweight.

Are you referring to lesbians or gay men (esp. Dataloungers), R35?

Lesbian Dead Bed?

"I guess it makes sense biologically, since there is no chance of procreation."

You're heterosexual, aren't you? And I'm guessing you haven't kept up with science and or society since, what--the late 70s?

Some of that weight is dog hair, though.

We HEART those fabulous real diesels in r21!

Everyone’s blaming it on Barb’s banana nut loaf.

[quote]This "blame men" idea has got to stop.

What really has to stop are people like you demanding that facts change simply because they hurt your feelings. Study after study has shown that male expectations drive all sorts of overall cultural expectations of morality, beauty, worth, etc.

But because you don't like it, you want us to ignore actual studies and instead "stop blaming men."

Get over yourself. Your posts show you're not even a bargain basement intellectual, let alone someone with the intelligence or experience to weigh in on this issue. You're just an internet whiner.

[quote]I've never met a happy, content fat person. ... Which leads me to conclude that lesbians are not as happy as straight women.

The big problem with DLers is ego, I think, and an inability to think critically and instead assume that personal experience equals universal experience.

There's so much in this guy's post that is laughable, yet it wasn't met with a single comment about its ridiculousness. Hell, even the troll who said all "lezbos and bears" should die only got one response from a bear who was upset because the troll called bears fat.

R43 Yeah Page, your 3 all-you-can-eat pasta nights a week isn’t helping anyone shimmy into their golf shorts!

It just means their circle of exes is larger. Talk about hos...

Oh, and many use booze as a meal replacement - it’s vegan.

OP clearly doesn't follow LGBT research very closely. DOZENS of studies have shown that before.

But I'm trying hard to lose weight.

So R44 is a fat dyke because "male expectations" ?

The only "male expectations" I see with lesbians are the ones they place on themselves: they expect men to have short hair, so they have to cut their hair even shorter. They expect men to have dogs, so they have to get bigger, more masculine-looking dogs with the shortest coats possible. They expect that men don't wear bras, so they abandon their tits to flop down to their gunts. They expect men to play sports, so they go whole hog into sports. And speaking of "whole hog", they expect men to be bulkier in build in stature, so, ......you know.......

Any excuse not to be pleasing to the eye, because that might be pleasing to some man somewhere.

I would imagine male expectation does drive many cultural norms. Thank God for that, after seeing what lesbian expectation leads to.

Thank God for male expectations, since they're to blame for beauty, fitness, and health! Even more reason not to hand over anything to women, especially lesbians!

I love the lesbian ladies. They took care of us in the 80s when we were succumbing to the plague. Have some respect, boys.

Lesbians in the 80s were a different, breed, r52 , and you know it. But even at that, many, many, many of them still hated men.

Why is the inverse seemingly true for gay men?

All that is good in life, every form of mastery - poetry, art, civilization, science, beauty in appearance and manners - is the result of a struggle: the struggle against cheap hedonism, against the natural tendency of humankind to settle down, to let oneself go, to be lazy. This is a struggle we undertake in order to meet standards and expectations.

This, and only this, is what distinguishes us from animals: the fact that we have standards and expectations.

To follow what feminists and romantics want of humankind - to become a happy grazing animal, to lie down on the grass all day, full of oneself (literally and figuratively), too satisfied to feel any kind of struggle within oneself - is how humankind deteriorates, it is how, in the long run, we lose the prerogative of civilization, and it is how, in the short term, we all die of heart attack turning 50.

R28 HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHA

Lesbians can't be fatter than female public school teachers, especially those in large cities.

I'm hoping a high percentage of posters on this thread are Russian trolls trying to create discourse amongst us. We are a very small percentage of society and we really need to band together.

That’s a shame. ™

Um...... are you actually reading this thread? It doesn't take a Russian troll to accurately assess lesbian girth and the stubborn, anti-male reasons behind it.

Lesbians can dump on men all day long (and the first comment made on this thread pitting women against men, at r1, was made by a lesbian), but the second gay men say anything less than 100% positive about women, we're being divisive or we're doing Putin's bidding.

As a side note, I can't believe there are still posters like R16 on here who believe this forum is for men only, as if "gay" could only refer to men. What a sexist dipshit.

r63 I'm not r16 but your argument is so dumb. That there's no word (apart from slurs) used to denote gay men to the exclusion of lesbians, doesn't mean that there aren't gay products and services (including web forums) marketed to men only. Example: If you go to a gay porn website under the expectation they will have both gay male and gay female content, you'd leave half disappointed.

"Gay" refers to men who are homosexual.

"Lesbian" refers to homosexual women.

This is a gay gossip forum for men, r63 .

It's their fondness for Ranch dressing (AKA lesbian ketchup.)

"I've never met a happy, content fat person"

I've never met a compulsive dieter who is happy either. People who are always hungry are grouchy 24/7

They're grouchy because everywhere they look, there's fat, sloppy, unkempt, ungroomed, un-bra-ed lesbians lumbering around in the way. People have eyes, you know. The concept of aesthetics exists for a reason.

How is this fat, sloppy and unkempt?

r69 That is not a lesbian, so what is your point?

Because theyre in the gym pumpin iron like a BEAST!!!! r1 shut up dike/frau/sjw/feminist whatever the fuck you are. Women dig hot guys more than gays, they just date and marry ugly men because they cant cheat.

R70. Surely you jest.

"Which leads me to conclude that lesbians are not as happy as straight women"

Or just lazy and piggy, when there's no male partner's desire for a skinny chick to keep you that way.

I stay in shape for health reason. I don't think lesbians supposedly being chubby is as deep as you think it is.

At least the studies of relationships indicating lesbian relationships are happier than their straight counterparts, don't seem to jive with your premise.

R70 apparently Diane von Furstenberg had a single experimental lez affair when she was a kid, and that makes r69 think that such renders the rest of the more accurate observations on this thread moot.

Or something. I don't know.

But then, there's, like, 90,000,000,000,000 pictures of lesbians who look like this:

Americans more likely to be overweight than Asians.

R74. Oh honey, you know not of what you speak

“Blame men”? They are in charge hence they are held accountable. That’s how it works, dummy.

And yet, lesbians have better sex lives than their straight counterparts.

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Is r75 Chaz Bono?

We HEART Chaz!

R69, I like your style.

Here's my contribution, this time with zero room for debate re: sexual orientation:

Interesting, r79. Proves what everybody has already known, that the fish is the only problem/cause for divorce in a marriage, str8 or Lez!

Men and their tastes are not accountable to you, or any of your sisters, lez @ r77 .

You're just trying to deflect criticism away from the brontosaurs mentioned in this thread, the ones who try to out-butch / out-bulk men and their conventions, while damning the same things they emulate and exaggerate.

See my post @ r50 for further details.

DL scientists are always right. Like, all attractive men are gay.

Gay and bi men are tend to be in better shape than straight men. Also, straight men tend to be more overweight than straight women but the latter have more obese people.