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I think it is because of the standards of the human body on the television. They make all the thin, ripped guys the main focus. We are never shown an overweight man as a sex symbol. We have grown to learn that there is a standard and people tend to be influenced my celebrities.

Also women are taught to hate fat. Many women's fashion magazines and women focused media teaches them that being fat is a character flaw in themselves. So naturally women externalize this to other people, hence a major insult with women is being called fat.

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There are many sources to blame for this perception: the media, culture, nurturing, and personal bias. The fact is that this is an attitude that changes at the whims of time. Many things affect how people view things and their personal tastes. The fact is that there is no reliable tracker of the perceptions of ALL people. there are probably as many men who are attracted to large women as there are those who are attracted to thin women, and athletic women, short women, tall women, women with different hair color, foot sizes, breast sizes, posterior sizes, etc. Personal tastes are personal, and only the individual can answer for them.

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There are a number of reasons why men become fat:

1. The majority of foods are now processed and unhealthy for the body.

2. As the economy worsens, fast food consumption goes up.

3. Men know that most women are shallow and greedy; they can be fat but rich, and that is enough to attract pretty much any woman.

4. 60% + of people are fat or obese in the U.S., and that number is growing higher.

5. Some men drink alot of beer and pop/soda, which causes them to get the beer belly look.

6. TV and Video Games have taken over a lot of mens lives, and no excercise is being done.

7. It is now learned that having a fat friend can be contagious, if a guy has fat friends, he's going to do what they do by habit.

8. Many men don't take the time to value their bodies, and spend more time trying to chase a woman.

9. Genetics plays a huge factor. If your grandpa was fat, and your daddy was too, odd are you will be fat as well.

10. Men walk around proud with their shirts off*, and have no clue as to how fat they really are.

*Men who do this should be required to wear a shirt in public as women are not allowed to exposed their breasts in public either.

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For the same reason men don't like being fat. It can cause them to be insecure about their bodies.

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The reason this causes insecurity is that in modern times there is a stigma against being fat reinforced by the media and the images of beauty if perpetuates. In addition, being overweight is likely to lead to health problems, especially when a person is very overweight.

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Some men don't care what a woman looks like, but I once read a story where a man divorced his wife for slimming down, because he only liked "big" woman. He thought: "The bigger they are, the more to hug!"

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Because there afraid that they might eat them.

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They don't..Most men like women to be medium, but not too large, or too skinny..

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