Why Do Fat Girls Date Less?

[Darth Executor]

Fat girls probably date less for the same reasons as fat guys do.

Our culture is based on physical beauty and if you don't measure up to what the media/advertisers say is beautiful, then you are a loser.

[mossrose]

Where's my million dollars?

[Mountain Man]

Fat girls probably date less for the same reasons as fat guys do.

Our culture is based on physical beauty and if you don't measure up to what the media/advertisers say is beautiful, then you are a loser.

I'll take my million bucks for this study I have done in small bills, please.

The answer seems pretty obvious, doesn't it?

Oh, wait, am I allowed to say that?

[pancreasman]

And what are the goals of the project?

The goals of the project are “to (1) determine whether obese adolescent girls experience a delay in the development of peer and intimate relationship skills compared to non-obese adolescent girls; (2) compare the characteristics of intimate relationships among obese and non-obese adolescent girls; (3) use longitudinal growth curve modeling to determine whether trajectories of romantic and sexual relationship characteristics differ between obese and non-obese adolescent girls over time; (4) determine how peer and intimate relationship skills affect trajectories of intimate relationships among obese and non-obese adolescent girls over time; and (5) compare the development of interpersonal skills and intimate relationship characteristics between obese and non-obese African American and White adolescent girls.”

It's overarching aim is to provide a framework for educational materials to reduce at risk sexual behaviour in teenage girls. I can definitely see how that's a waste.

[seer]

And what are the goals of the project?


It's overarching aim is to provide a framework for educational materials to reduce at risk sexual behaviour in teenage girls. I can definitely see how that's a waste.

Yes, because it is a waste of time and money. There is nothing here that a little common sense won't solve, if it can be solved.

[pancreasman]

Yes, because it is a waste of time and money. There is nothing here that a little common sense won't solve, if it can be solved.

Would this be your approach with all educational materials, that no research should be done, and that 'common sense' should be the arbiter how to approach social problems through education?

[pancreasman]

Wait! Another thought! I suppose my gripe is that the OP is deliberately misleading in its cavalier approach to what the study was actually doing and all you other bozos simply jumped on board because it conformed to your prejudices. Personally, I think that's lying and lying stinks.

[Darth Executor]

Wait! Another thought! I suppose my gripe is that the OP is deliberately misleading in its cavalier approach to what the study was actually doing and all you other bozos simply jumped on board because it conformed to your prejudices. Personally, I think that's lying and lying stinks.

I've read your post and don't see how the OP is misleading. We already know the answer to all those problems, and the solution: help them lose weight. There's no need for a study to determine these things.

[Catholicity]

Thank you P-Man! I just don't like Misogyny in any form. Subtle or not.

[mossrose]

I've read your post and don't see how the OP is misleading. We already know the answer to all those problems, and the solution: help them lose weight get over the cultural fixation with body type. There's no need for a study to determine these things.

[Jedidiah]

And what are the goals of the project?

It's overarching aim is to provide a framework for educational materials to reduce at risk sexual behaviour in teenage girls. I can definitely see how that's a waste.

Even if the stated goals are good it is a waste of money because it is being filtered through the NIH. They will waste most of the money and come up with results that any intelligent person could have done for no cost. Sorry.

[Jedidiah]

Wait! Another thought! I suppose my gripe is that the OP is deliberately misleading in its cavalier approach to what the study was actually doing and all you other bozos simply jumped on board because it conformed to your prejudices. Personally, I think that's lying and lying stinks.

No! I only jumped on board because the Feds were involved. Common sense will trump the NIH almost always in a case like this.

[Meta Knight]

Thank you P-Man! I just don't like Misogyny in any form. Subtle or not.

It is now apparently misogynist to a) not be attracted to overweight women and/or b) notice that most people are not attracted to overweight women.

[myth]

I don't have a problem with spending taxpayer money on this study. In the scientific world, making such broad assumptions is unwise. If one is going to develop public policy or recommend school curriculum that potentially affects millions of adolescent students, the policies should probably based on facts and not assumptions (however obvious it appears).

Now, if you want to argue they spent too much money in this particular instance, that's a different argument than saying they shouldn't have spent money on this at all.

With regard to how the answer appears 'obvious'... I'm not so sure that seer's opinion is inherently misogynistic. If he prefers thin women, and most of the other men he knows prefer thin women, then his conclusion is based on anecdotal evidence. If may not be scientifically accurate and it may not be politically correct (or polite), but that doesn't mean it's untrue.

And please don't think I'm picking on overweight women. I'm overweight myself.

[Darth Executor]

The first thing I appraise when checking out a woman is her culture.