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Dude, Where’s the Lard?
Steve Snodgrass/Flickr I don’t know about you but I grew up with that white stuff in big vats that got put pretty much everything. Now it’s gone. Here’s a cool story as to why and how it’s coming...
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Nice Piece on Male Body Image Issues
A fashion blog calls out the fact that men are starting to feel as much pressure to have the “perfect body” as women do. I’m always confused when I hear certain people complain that feminists don’t...
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Big Pussy Takes the Big Apple: the Surprising Success of Meow the Cat
Oliver Lee Bateman chews on how America is eating up its literal fat cat. The Santa Fe Animal Shelter came into possession of a severely abused, severely obese cat named Meow. The staff there...
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Large But Not Quite in Charge: 5/19
Men have body issues. It’s time we talked about them. Are you a man or boy that has had or is currently having body image issues? Are you a man that has had such issues since long before the relatively...
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Dude Looks Like A Lady: Living With Man Boobs
Matt Cornell has gynecomastia, and is tired of feeling ashamed of it. Cross-posted at My Own Private Guantanamo and Jezebel. Of the many nicknames I’ve acquired over the years, there’s one I’m...
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Fat Is the New Gay
Ex-gay and Christian weight loss ministries freight the body with sin. In the mid-nineteenth century, fat bodies were seen differently. There was no Weight Watchers, no Jenny Craig. The first health...
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On Eating Disorders and Being a Dude
Disordered eating and body image also affect men. This appeared previously on The Wretched of the Snark: Dispatches from the Long Beach Zoo. GQ recently published a fantastic article detailing the...
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Gay Men, Their Bodies, and Eating Disorders: Revisited
Thomas Fewer asked GMP readers four questions about gay culture, men, and body image. Here’s what you told him. Previously, I posed four questions with the intention of opening up a discussion on a...
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Not Quite In Charge, But Working On It
Danny concludes the Body Image series with a summary. Over the last few weeks, we have been running a series of posts on The Good Men Project on men and body image with myself, Danny, as the guest...
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I Don’t Have to Explain My Fat to You
Margitte Kristjansson asks: Why am I not allowed to want to be fat? When I was 21 I studied abroad in Rome for three months as part of my university’s Italian language studies program. Because I...
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“If you wanted to demonize thin people, why were men singled out every time?”
This is a comment by Mike L on the post “I Don’t Have to Explain My Fat to You“. I’ve heard these things before, and I personally take issue with “fat acceptance” for two reasons. First, for reasons I...
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Dear John: His Low Libido Is Bringing Her Down
This week Dear John addresses a low libido, a son’s discovery of porn, and a self-conscious, protective partner. This article originally appeared at GoLocalProv.com. Dear John, I have kind of the...
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Why Americans Are So Fat
The gluttony of food manufacturers is to blame for the obesity crisis, not individual eaters. This was previously published on Tin Foil Toque. What’s wrong with the way Americans eat? The way most...
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Suck It Up
Greg White learns the hard way after liposuction: Quick, painless solutions to long festering problems are the stuff of campaign promises, not physical reality. If it sounds too good to be true, it...
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Seduction of the Palate
With culinary seduction, Keith Doyle wins over lovers, neighbors, and thieves. The best meal ever, well that’s a difficult one; there’s been so many. The best meals in my opinion are the ones visibly...
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A Few of My Favourite Things
Talk of appearances leads Donald D’Haene to discover his friends’ inner beauty. Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting, Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings, Bundles of magazines tied...
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The Circumcised Poet and Other Tales
No matter what has been cut away, what remains is whole. Before I read his story, Seth Dombach was just a guy with a funny Twitter handle: @kloipy. Then I published “Guts,” his story of a lifetime of...
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Is This Couple Headed for Divorce or Just Really, Really Hungry?
Weight Watchers! commercial, loaded with stereotypes, perpetuates the wife-mom, husband-baby myths. Meet Matt and Meg. They’re in a commercial because they’ve lost a combined total of over a hundred...
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I Am a Man and I Am Fat
Josh Magill at the beach with one of his children Josh Magill is fat. He’ll tell you how he got fat and how he’s battling it. I get it. I’m fat. A few weeks ago I was pushing 260 pounds and only...
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Fat Dudes Are Hot
Marianne Kirby likes lots of kinds of bodies, and fat dudes are on that list. I have to start with my favorite hot fat guy, Ed. This one night, I’m out with a couple of friends, and I have had some...
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