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I stumbled across a few web sites recently that have the purpose of outing women that don’t fit the ideal female profile. One is a commercial site and one is a private site.

The private site, fat girlfriends is about one man’s issues with his wife’s weight. The person who wrote it admits that he encouraged her to eat and be comfortable. But then she bypassed his threshold and now he isn’t as fond of her. He outs her in public (and, nicely enough, conceals her face but shows her body in all of its glory – in bikinis, no less).

It all seems like he is really worried about this. However, the deeper into the site you go, the more it seems to ridicule women who have gained weight. BUT…he doesn’t talk about himself or if he has gained weight during the time. And he doesn’t show images of himself.

Then again, maybe it’s okay for a man to gain weight but not for his girlfriend/wife to do so.

Overcoming questionable hook-ups is something we should all be concerned about. I mean, it’s devastating, isn’t it, to have “dirty feelings caused by questionable hook-ups.” Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to just scrub away those dirty feelings?

Axe Snake Peel has a site geared toward encouraging men to do just this. They go so far as to define questionable hook-ups, to entice men into a secret society (ala Masons) and to shed the shame.

While there is some humor in the whole idea of a secret society, it’s not a very funny premise. It is implying that men can just scrub women away – if they don’t fit an ideal expectation.

I’m sure there are plenty of web sites out there that do this – either to women or men. These are just two that I came across recently and found distasteful. It’s not okay to ridicule either gender.

And definitely not okay to do it to make money.