I understand what you mean, but that's not what the author is communicating. If he's aligned with your point of view, he's failing in making it noticeable by using excerpts such as:  If this epidemic of un-ambitious young men really exists, can it be **accounted **for by the scarcity of slender, attractive women? A man can be 35 pounds overweight and this might bring him down a notch, but plenty of bigger gentlemen have very desirable wives and girlfriends.