Written by Michael Thervil
This is a question of at least two decades that seems to go unaddressed in the minds of many people in industrialized countries and the answer is a stark yes. For people that fall in the age range of 40 and up, long gone from the days when women across all age groups, socio-economic backgrounds, class, and ethnicity would take the time out before they sat down in front of a plate of food to “watch their weight”. For those people who can relate to what we’re talking about here, it's safe to say that they have watched women in industrialized nations pack on so many pounds that most women today either weigh as much as a man does or exceeds the weight of a man of the same height.
During the 1950’s and 1960’s, women on average weighed roughly anywhere between 130 – 140 pounds. The question we now need to ask is: “what changes happened over time that made it socially ok for women to proudly walk around either overweight or obese?”. An even more relevant question would be: “since when did women make the conscious decision to seek out ways to gain more weight when that goes against the desires of the average man on an international level? What's more is that women in first world countries are quick to point out the fact that men have gotten bigger too, which is a true statement.
However, it seems as if women who live in industrialized nations have forgotten that men and women are not the same and thus men and women are not equal. Therefore, men and women are subjected to different value judgments due to social norms. With that being said, it's safe to assume that beauty standards between women and men will be very different as well. On average it can be said that women on an international scale prefer men that are bigger than them. The reason for this is because evolutionary biology tells us that women have been conditioned to see a larger man as able to provide them with protection.
Men on international average prefer women that are significantly smaller than them. the reason for this is because evolutionary biology tells us that smaller women either currently have or still have their youth which is akin to them being better able to reproduce in contrast to older women whose youth has faded. When a woman loses her youth, evolutionary biology tells us that she's to be considered “too old” to bear children due to the increased risk of complications while giving birth. Ergo, as her age increases, so does the increased risk of her failing to carry on the family's genetics.
The generally accepted international preferences regarding a woman’s body weight by the vast majority of men is attributed to evolutionary biology. But what happens when a million years of evolutionary biology become either challenged, tampered with, changed, and/or ignored? Well, it seems to many people in industrialized nations that the ramifications of this are exactly what we’re experiencing right now. What we’re saying here is that not only does a woman’s “size matter”, but the modern woman's size is one of the leading causes as to why so many women find themselves chronically single - but are forced to accept perpetual singlehood as their terminal fate as they never find themselves being eligible for marriage.
In America where the term “super-size” seems to be the standard with anything food related, the average weight of a woman on this side of the pond will range from anywhere between 165 to 173 pounds. This travesty is not only significant but amplified when one considers that the international average weight for a woman is roughly 136 pounds. This is something to think about because again size matters when it comes to women, and the smaller a woman is, the more likely she is to be considered “fit” physically or “attractive” for childbearing purpose by men. In short - women today are just too damn big and it's hurting their chances of meaningful long-lasting relationships that lead to marriage.
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