I'm going to take an alternative route to potential gender roles vs. weight problems Men are also pressured to lose weight in order to improve their health (pretty sure because of the social third rail calling someone fat is, both genders just get pressured by their doctors, which is good) but weight loss products are almost exclusively marketed to women, so if they want weight loss products they have to consume something girly and face potential ridicule. I'm pretty sure weight loss products just plain don't work,  but men may feel left out of that resource. On the flip side, feeder couples are almost always a fat woman and a fat to sometimes skellington man. This "feeder couple" thing is a phenomenon I hear about somewhat regularly, even when I'm not pursuing 600 lb hamtertainment. But I've never heard of a husband starving his wife. If it happened it would be horrific and I'm pretty sure would make national news. But thankfully I've never heard of that. I just thought of something. I personally don't believe in the "patriarchy" because I revile anything that externalizes responsibility and promotes learned helplessness. Fats love anything that absolves them of responsibility, and for sjwfats it's a combination of muh condishuns and muh patriarchy. It's like they completely lack an internal will to change their own life and surroundings.