Seriously, do you just post this stuff to be a dick? What exactly are you trying to insinuate by this?

So feminism is making women fat? It's not just my imagination then.

The results of this study aren't particularly offensive nor surprising. The same can be said of men and children. People do fewer physical activities and eat more unhealthy food. Of course they'll be less healthy.

With than being said, to blame feminism is clearly wrong.

The results of this study are nothing new. The only point of it was to rile up people like krellin who don't read the articles they post.

I wonder what a study would say about men. Surely they've gained in average weight as well.

@CF

Clearly, it would show that men have been *losing* weight because their wives have stopped cooking good meals.

Of course. Duh how silly of me. Even though women are still doing house work and cooking even with feminism.

I think consumerism is what makes men fat.

I think a high stress, always on the go lifestyle combined with eating out a lot and affordable restaurant food being of low health quality and no regular regimen of exercise makes *people* fat, especially in the US. After spending a couple weeks in a variety of other nations' cities (especially Calgary) I feel confident in saying other countries eat healthier and exercise more. Even their restaurants tend not to be full of high-fructose corn syrup.

I should open up a Burger King there and make a killing.

@CF - Some women still do housework, sure. But when was the last time any woman (or man or child) much less a majority of them used a laundry scrubber or a carpet beater or scrubbed coal soot from their houses wallpaper in the spring? In the majority of homes, people don't even wash dishes by hand. Housework is a lot less streasful than it was 30, 40, 50 years ago and more.

Strenuous, not "streasful" whatever the hell that is. :-)

feminism is unhealthy for women its a bigoted philosophy keep em coming krellin

HA FEMSLUTS LOSE YET AGAIN NOW GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN - ITS GOOD FOR YOU

Who doesn't love the sound of a carpet beater landing on woman flesh in the morning, Draugnar? America-hating communists, that's who.

@uly - What can I say but...

When I grew up, we used a carpet beater to take our rugs, hang them from the laundry line every spring, and beat the dust and dirt out of them.

When I grew up, my mom had two dishwashers: me and my brother.

When I grew up, mother nature dried our laundry on a laundry line if it was nice, or it hung up a little longer on the indoor line.

You must be either really young, really stupid, or a real tool. Peace out.

@YJ - I didn't post it to be a dick. I posted it tongue-in-cheeck with the dig a feminism...but it is a valid study. If you don't like it, don't read it - but how is it dickish to point out the obvious: Feminism - good or bad - moved women from the house to the workplace...sitting at desks...and there was an impact on their lives to that behavior.

Since you think I'm being a dick by posting this, you obviously think feminism did something bad to women. That is your judgement to make.

To deny the link between feminism and the change in women's behavior is just childish.

Because...that was the PURPOSE of feminism!

Conversely, Draugnar, I might be very old because the last time I used a carpet beater was last Spring in the cottage garden - since I find the concept of using carpets in modern houses meaningless, the old and cold cottage is the last refuge of the carpets - and thus carpet beaters.

Not to mention that I don't even know how else would your dry your laundry than by hanging it on a line - are you a quartermaster that has to dry clothes for a whole regiment? Because otherwise I can't imagine why would you use something like an electric dryer at home.

So why the smartass "beating women with carpet beaters" reference? I was pointing out that CF's comment about women still doing housework was a bit disingenuous because modern automation has made housework much eaiser for people nowadays. Even the vacuum cleaners today are way more capable and weigh a lot less with self propelled motors and tilt steering and such. When I was a teen, I did the dishes and vacuumed the house as part of my chores. I'd much rather push a vacuum around my house now (which is almost as big as the one I grew up in) than then because the vauum cleaner is much lighter. And dishes are now a matter of putting them into and taking them out of the dishwasher. Laundry in our household is done in a front loading washer and dryer placed on a pedastal so one need not lean over to get it in and out. Scrubbing the tub is as simple as "squirt on and hose off" any more. Heck, even dusting has gotten easier as we have this dust mop that never needs shaking (just replace the head when it gets dirty) and it has an extendable handle for getting to high up or hard to reach places. About the only thing that requires any significant exertion is cleaning the toilets, but even that has gotten simpler with the disposable heads and a toilet wand.

Also, note that I pointed out that people (and especially Americans) have gotten fatter in general because of our "always on the go" lifestyle and the crap we eat with littel or no regimented exercise. I think the study didn't take into account all of the variables and made some radically disingenuous assumptions. It is modernization and automation that has started us down the path that leads to people looking like the remnants of humanity on board the space going cruiseliner in Wall-E.

It is also a false assumption that women still do all the housework. Maybe in homes where the men are troglodytes, but most men I know participate in the household in a division of duties where the women work.

Might it be because of the obviously trollish intent of the OP? The more feminazi allies you lure out of their murky hideouts, the better. The more the merrier, they say - about company as well as about the usage of a carpet beater.

Sad that when confronted with a reality you dislike -- i.e. that feminism caused a change in women's behavior, which can now be linked to an unhealthier lifestyle -- you refuse to acknowledge the connection.

It does not mean that the overall results of the feminist movement are bad -- I'm happy that my daughters are not growing up in pre-feminist days. By the same token, I also feel bad that someday they may be stuck in a cubicle or at a desk like the rest of the worker bees just because that is expected of them and they are pressured by society to do so. I also hope that, if they *choose* to, they will stay home and not work if their husband earns enough to care for the family.

Then sign the White House protest to extend paid maternity leave to a year (still a year short of what it should be) and send them to schools at which they realize they may have potential more than an office cubicle.

Bo - as usual, you are an idiot and demonstrate zero understanding of the world in which you live.

1 year paid maternity leave is stupid and had nothing to do with feminism. It is an assault on businesses.

As for what schools my daughters go to, I encourage them to explore what makes them happy, and not listen to the pressures of society - in particular *because* they are girls and therefore - because of old school ideologies - can still get away with doing what they want instead of chasing the dollar, as men are expected to do.

You remember to ask your daughters that when they have children, krellin. You just see if they would rather have a babysitter that they hardly know take care of their kids versus them. You just see if they're happy going back to work after six weeks and leaving their newborn child. You just see if you grow half a heart by then.

And, in terms of the world I live in, more than 120 countries provide paid maternity leave, including the industrial nations aside from the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. The FMLA here ensures 12 weeks of unpaid leave - after which they can terminate you - and this does not apply to businesses under 50 employees. The United States pays no wage for maternity leave while the lowest percentage of wages paid during maternity leave according to the ILO is 50%, of which only Rumania follows and all other nations on the continent are 66.7% and above, many over 90%. France offers 16-26 weeks of full pay during maternity leave, Germany offers 14 weeks, and the UK offers 90% for the first six weeks and a flat rate for the other 8-12 of its maternity leave period.

So yeah, the world that I live in supports paid and lengthened maternity leave. Sorry to break it to you.

DFTT.