Why are male X-Men allowed to be fat but female X-Men aren't?

[Havok83]

like you mentioned, they are out there. they just happen to be villains. there were at least two on that Freelancers team that showed up in Champions.

[Tycon]

Shes thick enough.

i kno u lyin

[lurkerforyears]

Glob Herman isnt fat, he actually doesn't have any fat, unless you consider his organic wax fat.

Mondo until recently was more obscure than the Fat woman mutant from the Great Lakes Avengers. I don't think there is a double standard.
Superheroes are supposed to be like Olympic Athletes. Xmen train in the Danger Room. They are supposed to be very fit.
Mondo should be more like a Samoan or Maori Rugby player, not a fat guy, imo.

[Havok83]

Glob Herman isnt fat, he actually doesn't have any fat, unless you consider his organic wax fat.

Mondo until recently was more obscure than the Fat woman mutant from the Great Lakes Avengers. I don't think there is a double standard.
Superheroes are supposed to be like Olympic Athletes. Xmen train in the Danger Room. They are supposed to be very fit.
Mondo should be more like a Samoan or Maori Rugby player, not a fat guy, imo.

Sure but they dont typically find mutants who have been training in the Danger Room. That happens after they join the X-men. By and large, most of the characters found are already fit

[PsychoEFrost]

Glob Herman isnt fat, he actually doesn't have any fat, unless you consider his organic wax fat.

Mondo until recently was more obscure than the Fat woman mutant from the Great Lakes Avengers. I don't think there is a double standard.
Superheroes are supposed to be like Olympic Athletes. Xmen train in the Danger Room. They are supposed to be very fit.
Mondo should be more like a Samoan or Maori Rugby player, not a fat guy, imo.

Mondo has shown to almost never train. He spends 90% of his time relaxing.

[BroHomo]

Mondo has shown to almost never train. He spends 90% of his time relaxing.

Mondo has spent 90% of his comic book existence off panel

[davew128]

FWIW for a couple years in the mid 80's Karma became very obese while possessed by Shadow King.

[Havok83]

FWIW for a couple years in the mid 80's Karma became very obese while possessed by Shadow King.

More like 5 months when they made her a villian. Besides she wasnt allowed back among the team until she was forced to walk the fat off in the desert alone

[Handsome men don't lose fights]

I feel bad for overweight people who feel excluded. Losing weight can be hard depending on your circumstances, so it's not like you can just tell someone to go eat a salad. Some of us simply cannot afford to eat healthy food on a daily basis. It's a rotten system.

[sungila]

Sincerely, this thread should be re-framed and/or put to rest please.

I believe that there could be a far less hurtful vehicle for discussing what's necessary here.

We could even celebrate the diversity of bodies actually sitting and walking and standing who are us, who contribute to this forum...many will not, or have not, or need not stand the test this appoints them, who are silenced by its rule, who are shoved back and held by simply seeing the word 'fat' and forced to undergo a trial.

To keep this here, along with the intimate identifiers of gender and fandom and cannon and these images...it's insensitive, counter-intuitive and callous.

I am here. So if I'm talking with you, you're not alone. Hi.

Anorexia. Male. Hi.


So many in this forum have said things of value and importance and have even attempted to transport this discussion outside this closed and dangerous confine. Can we please honor that and continue that discussion?

If you don't believe me, if you've never experienced this sort of hurt or harm, could you try to understand? Understanding, what harm could that do?

Think about what this thread itself 'allows' or doesn't.