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... I'd like to see Salon publish an article dissecting the body types sported by famous men and how they're setting a bad example for other men and teen boys.
Let's see some hand-wringing over how much pussy fat guy Tony Soprano gets and how his character is misleading impressionable men into thinking they can do the same without losing weight. And what kind of example is Kevin James on The King of Queens? For shame! Let's tell women to stop tolerating men with "teddy bear" bodies and insist on dating men with washboard abs.
Then in the letters section, a bunch of women can write in and regale us with detailed descriptions of their preferred male body types. Men can write in and try to justify their weight for everyone else's approval. We can all debate how much James Gandolfini or John Goodman really weigh. Much can be made of the ideal V-shaped chest-to-waist ratio. A few women can write in and tell the fat guys that no woman would ever want them and that they are simply not OK.
But of course none of that would ever happen because in our society women are the only ones whose worthiness as people depends so strongly on their appearance and weight.
