Only If You're Male

[talon]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/01/overweight.doctors.health/index.html?hpt=C2

If you're female, doctors don't hesitate to tell you you're overweight even when you aren't. If you're female and weigh more than 90 pounds, regardless of your height, you will be told you are fat by at least one doctor in your life.

If you're male, you may never have the word "fat" applied to you, even when you have floppy man-boobs and should be wearing a size 48D bra to control them, and a belly that overhangs your belt enough to be considered an "apron". You might hear "overweight", but not "fat".

Comments

[herlander_refugee]

Too true. I am 58. I weight about 20 lbs more than I did in my young adulthood. As recently as 8 years ago, the Army uniform I wore in 1974 still fit me, tho' it was tight in the waist and hips.

And yet, a tiny East Indian pulmonologist told me I had sleep apnea because I am "obese". Not just "fat"...but obese. I told her my measurements only had changed in waist, hip and thigh, for the most part...so how was it affecting my throat and breathing apparatus.

She shrieked that all Americans are fat people and I just was in denial. She's right, I promptly "denied" her the privilege of ever "treating" me again. (And yes, the icon is me..in a picture from 2007, and yes, it is representative.)