[The Pack Knight]

What a nauseating load of feminist dreck. This paragraph is particularly laughable:

Similarly, in big-time sports, our male superheroes are often super-fat. Harvard University, for instance, found that 55 percent of Major League Baseball players are overweight, while the University of North Carolina found that 56 percent of National Football League players are obese. These whales, of course, are interposed on TV between beer commercials featuring super-thin female models and are often playing in front of impossibly dimensioned female cheerleaders.

I didn't look up the UNC study on NFL players, but I do know the Harvard study on Major Leaguers is based on the Body Mass Index, an utterly useless standard when discussing athletes (or really anyone else for that matter). Under the BMI, players like Albert Pujols, A-Rod, and Ryan Howard are considered borderline "obese". Would anyone seriously call those three "superfat"?

How typical that an author who wails about demands of "physical perfection" from women cites a study that employs a standard which makes no allowance for differing body types.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’m 51, weigh 340lbs and stand nearly six feet tall. Until a few years ago, entertainment venues paid me money to keep their patrons from becoming unruly and ejecting those who couldn’t follow house rules. If I was a big, soft marshmallow, how was that possible?

[Secret Agent Man]

Anyone woh lifts weights and eats properly will be overweight.

Just because one is “overweight” - doesn’t mean it’s an unhealthy overweight.

Big fat mama spilling out of capris versus athlete with a lot of muscle mass, no comparison - certainly not equal just because technically both weight more than whatever the average weight is for their height.

And ps what is average changes over time. So it isn’t even consistent.

[Fred Hayek]

BMI is bogus. It is based on the “norm” having no real muscle mass.
I am at 9% body fat and, according to BMI, considered obese.