Okay. More than 60 percent of the Western world is overweight or obese. I don't think women have any monopoly on that. Weight gain is a human problem, not a female one, so why is the focus so much more on the woman?
That aside, if we accept the proposition that women gain more weight after marriage than men do in general (which I would like to see evidence of), rather than attributing it to women's propensity to talk in riddles and their husbands' failure to understand them, how about this:
- People tend to gain weight as they age, women more so than men owing to their muscle/fat body composition. Women tend to continue aging after marriage.
- Women bear the brunt of the physical responsibility for pregnancy and childcare. Children cause stress and lack of sleep. Lack of sleep and stress have been linked to weight gain.
- Women's jobs in general are more sedentary than men's, and people in general take on more sedentary jobs as they age.
I'm not saying the fact that the cupboard now has more Doritos than it used to, or the fact that you'd rather take the kids to the mall than on a two-day hike through the mountains doesn't make a difference sometimes, but in general the article seems very airy-fairy and self-pitying.
Also: kissing does NOT burn 26 calories a minute, I can assure you of that.
|