Women Are Toughest Judges Of Fat

When it comes to looking good, or not good, women are the harshest judges of overweight people, both male and female. That makes them a bit more open-minded than men, who judge overweight women negatively, but give overweight men a pass. We know this because researchers at the University of Surrey analyzed the scores that male and female interviewers gave for the attractiveness of interviewees of both genders. A University of Surrey news release reports that the study of how BMI affects perceptions of beauty showed that female interviewers would judge both men and women with higher BMIs as less attractive, whereas men would judge their fellow gender much less harshly. Read more here.