Seriously?...

Since yer up...

     I have often been amazed at one double standard in particular that doesn't take much more than "Hefty" here to elaborate.  While I do think that women tend to place more pressure on themselves than men do in terms of their expectations of their own physical attractiveness, there remains an alarming disparity between those expectations and the one's we men are holding ourselves to.  Perhaps I should say not holding ourselves to.  I would love to think that men are always rational and logical about things.  I would love to stand my ground as a man and proclaim men as the more fair sex.  However, I can't ignore the growing number of my male friends who, once married, take to gaining unhealthy amounts of weight as if they are expecting to birth the children.  It's absolutely ludicrous to expect a woman to keep her figure through several pregnancies and, many times, an equally hectic professional schedule when we men can't seem to put down the barbecue ribs and run a few laps.

      Come on fellas!  We have an extreme advantage here in terms of staying fit for our women.  We, as men, carry about 15 percent less body fat naturally from the get go.  We don't endure pregnancy which has been proven to not always return the body to its prior weight based on genetic disposition no matter how much some women try to lose it.  Lastly, we tend to have more physical and calorie burning jobs than our female counterparts.  When you throw these details together, we should be able to do better than women in this area by accident! 

     Even with all these facts present, men at times forget to keep up their own appearance as if, like laundry and kitchen cleaning duties, it is up to the wife to cover that area.  That's just not fair.  Furthermore, it completely lacks the strength of reason and self control that promotes women to be attracted to us in the first place.  There are many reasons that keeping in shape is needed for a man to win.  The obvious ones would include the ability defend your wife if ever needed, to be able to move quickly towards the hospital when your young child seriously injures themselves, or to be able to move in more than the "back and forth" direction in the bedroom.  The less well known and infinitely more important rationale is that your personal fitness level directly correlates to your ability to remain attractive to your wife on a genetic level.  You can't expect to keep her interested in the bedroom or obligated to maintain her own attractiveness when you hardly resemble the person she chose as the best mate for her offspring.  This is because women don't typically select men based on the same criteria we select women.  Women chose men based on a far more instinctive process that includes, at its forefront, the likelihood that you are healthy enough to supply successful offspring.  Believe it or not, gents, this is far more important scientifically than the size of the penis you are wielding.  Medically speaking, 75% of men are between 5-7 inches anyways.  Wake up, that's not why she picked you.

     In the end, its a matter of principle.  We are supposed to lead by example.  As men, we expect that in our leaders but forget that we are supposed to earn that role in our homes and within our families.  What kind of man are you teaching your daughter to chose?  Hopefully, it's not "Hefty" up there.  If it is, get off your wife's huge, unshaven back.  You have no room to talk.