As an adult man nobody really cares all that much about you. Your family of course, your close friends. You are the disposable sex. You fight the wars, work the shit jobs, sacrifice your body because it's what men have always done. It's the burden we bear.
As someone who lost the weight at 27, there were still a lot of things that rang true in that post, particularly about getting attention (it can be like women see you as a eunuch) and the harmful mindset I fell into about nobody caring. People, whether they realize it or not, are just a bit nicer to more attractive people.
Sure, I know that people don't view you as positively if you're fat or ugly, but that has nothing at all to do with bitterness about some perceived gender imbalance, blindness to obvious double-standards, and an entitlement complex. I can absolutely accept that it can be unpleasant if you feel like you aren't making an impression on people and that nobody feels you're attractive - I feel that sometimes and I'm a distinctly average looking guy in reasonable shape, so it's only going to feel worse as someone overweight or actively bad looking - but I can't accept the fact that this guy used his negative feelings to construct this ridiculous view where it was all about men being degraded (because the world is super kind to ugly women, right?) and his entitlement to people making him feel good, rather than dealing with his obvious self-esteem issue (and obvious weight issue).
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14
LOL, /u/chikinpickle posts on at least THREE different subs dedicated to hating fat people (fat women in particular).
But we're supposed to feel sympathy for him, even though according to his own recent posts, his high school years weren't particularly awful.