Double standards?

[razordark]

Been reading quite a few threads here.Some very funny (intentionally as well as unintentionally)

I've read quite a few threads when a poster has said that her DH has told her (in a nice/nasty manner) that she has got fat and 90% of the responses have been along the lines of "Ditch the bastard" "How dare he" etc.

However, when a thread has been about how a DW's other half has got fat, it has been "he sounds like a slob" "Tell the couch potato to get off his butt".

Apart from double standards, is there any other explanation?

Ragwort...... a woman who posts on here about her partners lack of intimacy gets asked if shes put on weight.

Whenever I have saw threads where people have responded with 'couch potato' or 'slob' type responses it's because the guy is lazy and does nothing around the house or with the kids. He acts and looks like a slob.

A woman working her ass off taking care of the house, watching the kids and that being told by he OH that she is fat is not the same thing so wont elicit the same feelings.

river I wouldn't dream of insisting that someone else does as I say. I just said it would be nice/or I think the responses to posts should be limited to say 15.( it was a suggestion open for discussion) In my opinion It would make them more manageable. Bullies INSIST don't they? Mine were suggestions, your word insist is a command,and I did not use it.
Anyway you have used the word insist and criticised my use of English, so to make you happy, here is a paragraph.
What about the OP ? River'Paragraphs were not the topic, were they ? I thought the discussion was about MNet being biased.

I thought the topic was whether MN contributors were gender-biased - specifically in their treatment of the fat.

You are rightCog I was careless and should have put gender- biased -specifically in the treatment of the fat.