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Suck it up brothers,those pot bellies are a turn off

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Pot belly        Man's pot belly      Photo:yoknyamdabale.cwordpress.com

In the last few years we women have apt the ante when it comes to looking fabulous. And all men will agree to that.

We have learnt how to put makeup so our faces can look as spotless like the women who live in 'TV land', we have adopted to those painful and impossible heels that men like so much. And are often seen wearing uncomfortable weaves, even in hot weather because our African men can't resist long straight hair.

Further, to get that enviable hour glass figure and that perfect butt lift that men are always lusting after, we women are hitting the gym in large numbers, but for some reason our men seem comfortable to just sit and watch.

Call me crazy, but in the last two years or so there has been a rise in the pot belly sightings especially in men.

And although back in the day pot bellies was a type of gold star saved for men in their 50s as some sort of sign that a man had been through the battle field of life, and had bravely navigated work and family life. And had lived to talk about it.

Basically, the belly meant, "I have been there, done that, and now do not bother me because I am relaxing and waiting to see my grandchildren as I wait for my maker to come for me,". Nowadays once a man gets a job and he is 25, he seems to get the license to blow up like a balloon.

Just this weekend I happened to gate crash a wedding courtesy of a friend.

And the first thing I noticed apart from the interesting mixture of magenta and orange was that while the bride looked stunning, and had probably been working hard at the gym to look fabulous on her wedding day, her young husband who was under 30 had the pot belly that probably resembled that of a woman who is six months pregnant! And I do not care how you spin it, but the sight of those together was not pretty!

And for the love of me I cannot understand why men seem to be able to get away with murder while we women are given this impossible and stringent rules of how we should and should not look.

Because why else would men who are supposed to be young and virile parade themselves all over town wearing their pot bellies like it were a badge of honour bestowed on them by, for instance, the queen (of England) herself.

Yet we women choose to be graceful, and to keep our mouths mum about what we really think about men and pot bellies, often leading men to make the very misguided assumption from our silence that we are all chubby chasers.

Because I mean why would any self-respecting woman want a man with a nice trim figure accompanied by nicely built muscles and a nice firm butt?

Go to the gym and 90 per cent of those in attendance are women, 9.5 per cent are old men who have probably gotten a warning letter from the doctor. And only 1.5 per cent are young men. How disappointing!

Well men, let me let you in on a little secret that your woman will never tell you because she is probably too polite and does not want to bruise egos: we women do not like pot bellies on our men.

So men please hit the gym or you will lose your women to younger and pot less men, or worse the shamba boy who probably has an impressive six pack!

 

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