Because Dan and I don’t look like the above-pictured couple when we sit on bar stools. Ergo, science says we’re doomed.
“[Our difference in BMI] is destroying our marriage in the same way that the threat of nation-wide homosexual marriage equality is, i.e., not in any way,” is what Dan first said when I asked him to comment in this piece. Then we worried it was too political for iVillage. But not for you, dear Beauty Schoolers!
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On a kinda/sorta related note: This kind of (supposedly) socially acceptable sexual dimorphism is also behind the marketing of “boyfriend jeans” and “boyfriend cardigans.” As a fat woman who has dated larger and smaller men, I find the concept of “boyfriend clothing” somewhat insulting. Am I only supposed to date men whose clothes would look baggy on me?