So try to be more compassionate.įINALLY, data-brought-to-life! You only have to log on to any of the gay social media and/or “hookup” sites and then start scratching your head when you read so many profiles where a guy with a 36″ waist describes himself as “average.” I mean, if you’re 6’8″ a 36″ waist might be “average,” but in most cases these guys are between 5’8″ and 6’1″…at least NOW i have an explanation AND continued motivation to maintain my 5’8″…155lbs.31″ waist body.
That person may work too much at some office grind and have no time left for exercise.Īnd fellow gays get real, you’re all going to get old, and you’re skin is going to sag, and your waistline will expand, and cruel you-right-now will be online posting about what a tragedy you are.
That person is probably depressed and doesn’t have adequate health benefits to go get help, or when he tries to get help, he visits some hurried doctor who wants to pop him full of meds with weight-gaining side effects, because that doctor had lunch with the pharmaceutical company rep and ka-ching ka-ching, who gives a crap what’s good for the patient. We have politicians and churches fighting against responsible family planning and do nothing to curb overpopulation.īut the outrage is directed at ol’ fat Joe down the street because it’s easy to do and lets you feel powerful in the face of chronic, widespread social problems. We have restaurants that dump tons of food into landfills. We have industry working people to the bone for low wages with no health benefits. We have neighborhoods where the poor don’t have a place to buy vegetables. We have no real food education in this country. I do judge sheeple who point the finger at each other than at policies and people who support policies that enrich them at the expense of the poor and middle class. I don’t judge people based on their weight because that’s cruel, idiotic, and unhelpful. That same government permits the sell of tobacco and cigarettes and policies that exploit other countries so Americans can have their illegal drugs. That same government supports factory farming pumping cows full of hormones and feeding chickens to each other. The same government that pays lip service to BMI, exercise, and eating healthy initiatives also turns a blind eye and approves corporations that load food with salt, sugar, and addictive, unhealthy substances. the amount of hours they work, sedentary working conditions, etc. On top of that, demands upon the average American worker are ridiculous and abusive, e.g. Additionally, food production methods, such as dwarf wheat, have made food the average American consumer can obtain less nutritious and healthy. The other countries have better diets and/or institutionalized athletics and team sports. The Dutch are generally taller - averaging 6-ft - thanks in part to their exquisite prenatal and early childhood care, and they have a slightly more slender 36-inch waist with a BMI of 25.2. The average American male between the ages of 30 and 39 is 5’9″, has a 39-inch waist and a body mass index of 29 - to put that in perspective, anything above 25 is considered overweight and above 30 is considered obese. Using the average waist, height, and body mass index (BMI) measurements of the average middle-aged male, Lamm digitally rendered 3D models of the average American, Japanese, Dutch and French man. Graphic artist Nikolay Lamm set out to answer that question with his Body Measurement Project. But what does the “average,” everyday man actually look like? For gay men, particularly, body image has always been a source of constant concern, shame, pride, anger, dysmorphia and a host of other emotions tied almost exclusively to sexual identity. It used to be that women were the only victims of society’s obsession with physical perfection, but in the spirit of equality, men too have been increasingly bombarded with images of masculine beauty.