Saturday, August 15, 2009

Potted


The NY Times did a puff piece on the new trend for young hipster men, a potbelly.

Wow.

Its hip to be portly. Who knew. And here after all my years of conscientiously watching my diet and trying to stay near high school weight, I was ignorantly being uncool.

I, am the ingrate.

NY Times: It’s Hip to Be Round
...an unexpected element has been added to the look, and that is a burgeoning potbelly one might term the Ralph Kramden.

Leading with a belly is a male privilege of long standing, of course, a symbol of prosperity in most cultures and of freedom from anxieties about body image that have plagued women since Eve.
And on a related note -

Telegraph: Obese US man hid gun between rolls of fat

No comments: