Hi Ladies. I agree with you all. Yes your right, Doug (Kevin James) is definately not the "picture of health". Although most of the time Carrie does make fun of him constantly, but still I did not find the episode I mentioned above humerous at all esp. since he always gets most of the brunt of the jokes about his weight on the show, but they always make him look good and her look awful. I think its just how society is though, unfortunately. That the women are all to be "Super Models" and that guys can pretty much do what they want and look and act however they want.
Take my husband for ex. He is a "Big Guy", but it is more acceptable for him to be "Big" than for me. When we go places, I see people give me looks of disgust, but give him a big smile. Like when we went to the outlet mall on our vacation. This one woman stopped and looked at me up and down and gave me that "look". If you've ever been heavy in your life, you know what that "look" is. It made me want to scratch her eyes out! But I didn't.
But I get that all the time. There is this one woman at work who really drives me insane. She insists on always "looking up" my husband all the time and she knows me and knows of course we are married. Yet she continues to "look him up" all the time. I don't mind him having friends that are girls, but we as women and esp. when it concerns our "man" we KNOW when a woman is out to get our man versus just being "Friendly". I always tell my husband he is just too nice and some women mistake that as flirting.
It just drives me insane how some women totally disrespect other women who are either married or involved with a man and they KNOW it. There is a big difference between being nice or a friend and "out to get" a man.
And this woman that is doing this at work is of course thin and pretty. I hate that. I know that gives out a wrong impression on other women who are thin and pretty and who do NOT act that way, but it totally drives me insane women who are and think they can get a way with everything just because of it.
Anyways. Sorry to have gotten off on a bit of a tangent there, but yes there is definately a difference on how "Big" Men and "Big" Women get treated in today's society.
These are all just my humble opinions............
Have a Great Day!