For God’s sake, what stupidity. All Americans are getting fatter. Look around any city and you’ll see men and women with fat bellies protruding from their cotton summer tops.
It’s summer, and we’re wearing less clothes. That’s what this is about, not some deep sociological statement. Give me an ever-loving break.
I don’t know which statement in that article irritated me more: “Leading with a belly is a male privilege ….. freedom from anxieties about body image that have plagued women since Eve.” (of course, these would be the same guys who post on Facebook that their ideal woman is slim and takes care in her appearance) or that this is a lashback response to the fact we have a President who is trim and works out!
And if this NYT author had more than a two minute attention span, he would recall that GWB was and is in excellent shape as well.
OMG. This is like how, EVERY SUMMER, I think, “Wow, more people are getting tattoos these days.” Then I realize that no, it’s summer, and the tattoos hidden under winter’s Polartec can now see the light of day.
I don’t write an *article* about it, though. Any more than I write one about how it seems more Muslim women are donning the hijab on the first snowy day of winter or how smudgy foreheads seem to be all the trend on a certain Wednesday in May. I merely marvel at my annual cluelessness and keep it to myself.
[Right!? And you don’t get PAID to inflict your cluelessness on the reading public, either! – PB]
I guess the guy is making a living opining about trivia like his favorite eyeglass frames being discontinued, message T shirts and MJ sequined glove:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/guy_trebay/index.html?inline=nyt-per
As a man of a certain age, I can assure you that my unwilling and inadvertent participation in this is conclusive evidence that the trend or fashion is over.
You may now return to calling them paunchy putzes.