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.And on a related note -
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.
Telegraph: Obese US man hid gun between rolls of fat
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