Editing Fat acceptance movement (section)

====Fat men====
The fat acceptance movement has primarily focused on a [[feminist]] model of [[patriarchal]] oppression of fat women, most clearly represented by the encouragement of women to diet. However, Sander L. Gilman argues that, until the 20th century, dieting has historically been a man's activity. He continues, "[[Obesity]] eats away at the idealized image of the [[masculine]] just as surely as it does the idealized image of the [[feminine]]."<ref>{{cite book |last=Gilman |first=Sander L. |title=Fat Boys: A Slim Book |year=2004 |publisher=University of Nebraska |isbn=978-0803221833 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fatboysslimbook00gilm/page/1 1]–10 |url=https://archive.org/details/fatboysslimbook00gilm |url-access=registration |quote=fat men.}}</ref> [[William Banting]] was the author of an 1863 booklet called ''Letter On Corpulence'',<ref>{{Cite book |title=Letter on Corpulance |last=Banting |first=William |publisher=Cosimo, Inc. |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=72Vzw7S4f2MC |isbn=9781596050853}}</ref> which modern diets have used as a model. Men respond to being [[overweight]] differently, (i.e., having a [[Body Mass Index]] of 25 or more), being half as likely as women to [[dieting|diet]], a quarter as likely to undergo [[bariatric|weightloss]] surgery and only a fifth as likely to report feeling [[shame]] about their weight.<ref>{{cite book |last=Oliver |first=J. Eric |title=Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195347029 |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtQ0olwnQ4AC&q=fat+men}}</ref> Irmgard Tischner identifies this behavior as rooted in notions of masculinity that require disregard for healthcare: "Men do not have to care about their size or health, as they have women to care about those things for them".<ref>{{cite book |last=Tischner |first=Irmgard |title=Fat Lives: A Feminist Psychological Exploration |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415680943 |pages=105–6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oyz6VaOi7kQC&q=Men+sexualise+fat |year=2013}}</ref>

Some [[gay men]] have moved beyond disregard for size to fat acceptance and fat activism with movements like [[Chub (gay slang)|chub culture]], which started as [[Girth & Mirth]] clubs in San Francisco in 1976<ref>{{cite web |last=Suresha |first=Ron |title=The Birth of Girth and Mirth: an interview with Reed Wilgoren |url=http://ronsuresha.com/?p=4093 |date=2016-02-07 |access-date=2017-04-08 |archive-date=2017-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409112331/http://ronsuresha.com/?p=4093 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[Bear (gay culture)|bear culture]] which [[Sexual fetishism|fetishizes]] big, hairy men. Ganapati Durgadas argues that fat bisexual and gay men "are reminders of the feminine [[social stigma|stigma]] with which [[heterosexism]] still tars queer men". In a comparison of queer fat positive [[zine]]s, the lesbian-produced ''Fat Girl'' was found to have political debate content absent from gay male orientated zines such as ''Bulk Male'' and ''Big Ad''. Joel Barraquiel Tan comments: "If fat is a feminist issue, then fat or heft is a fetishized one for gay men. Gay men tend to sexualize difference, where lesbians have historically politicized it."<ref>{{cite book |last=LeBesco |first=Kathleen |title=Revolting Bodies? The Struggle To Redefine Fat Identity |year=2004 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |isbn=978-1558494299 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7Wz4EKksUcC&q=men+sexualize+their+fat}}</ref>

A fat heterosexual man is known as a "Big Handsome Man" (BHM), in counterpart to a Big Beautiful Woman. Like some fat and gay men, BHMs have sexualized their difference and receive validation of this identity from BBWs or straight women known as "Female Fat Admirers".<ref>{{cite book |last=Monaghan |first=Lee F. |title=Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415407120 |page=53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fP14YLpzR_kC&q=big+Handsome+Men |year=2008}}</ref>