I neglected to point out that Dr_Paprika is quite right about estrogen being converted to testosterone in fat tissue. Yet another reason why obese women may have hirsutism and the like.
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Well, gender has nothing to do with hair growth - although gender will influence how one grooms the hair one has!
When you say large people, do you mean big folks like Shaq, or people who are seriously obese? If you gain enough weight, your hormones, among other things go haywire, which can cause weird hair growth or hair loss.
Mostly people that are at least double what there optimal weight would be.
as a real live insulin resistant female, I agree with karl, now I’m off to chave something
Maybe there’s a correlation between people who allow themselves to get fat and the likelyhood that they don’t remove excess hair.
Makes sense, letting yourself get unattractive by being unhealthily fat probably means you don’t care about something like hair.
Another thought is that this may be a case of confirmational bias… you only remember it when it happens, so you assume it happens more often than not. e.g. Fat guy. So what. Fat hairy guy, ew geez.
-k
Kempis, you make a big assumption when you say “letting yourself get unattractive by being unhealthily fat probably means you don’t care about something like hair.” “Unhealthily fat” can be caused by poor health, not lack of grooming or lack of caring.