While most "inequality" discussions these days are focused on male-female pay, black-white opportunities, or rich-poor wealth, there is one in which the 'lesser' half of the unequal equation is gaining... that of weight. As WaPo reports, [2]American women now weigh the same as American men did in the 1960s.
Since 1960, women's weight-flation is up 18.5%, handily out-flationing men who are up 17.6% bodyweight.
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The average American is 33 pounds heavier than the average Frenchman, 40 pounds heavier than the average Japanese citizen, and a whopping 70 pounds heavier than the average citizen of Bangladesh. To add up to one ton of total mass, it takes 20 Bangladeshis but only 12.2 Americans.
Digging into the details, we find that it is women over 30 who have really stepped up their game...
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When will the protests begin? When will men start to demand even more calories as their 'right' as women gain weight paying no attention to the poor downtrodden starving males in the population?
Charts: Reddit [5], The Washington Post [2] [2]
