Am I less attractive to women by being a vegatarian?
I flat out refuse to adopt the stereotypical “man’s man” American diet of red meat, beer, fried foods, steaks, sugar loaded processed foods, etc. etc. This is not soley for political reasons (PETA, et al.) but also because I’m very health conscious and I do my own research on living healthier and longer.
And for this, I am labeled as some kind of queer by my friends and co-workers. Some women I’ve dated have not understood this either. I like cooking things like curry, salads, eating whole grains, fresh fruits, etc. Is this so unattractive?
So, my question is, how do I “get back” at all these people who make fun of me? Should I make fun of them for being overweight slobs or is that not alright? Even if they look like stout pigs who have their bellies hanging over their keyboards?
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doesn’t matter, you’ll have the last laugh with your excellent health
You need to find someone that shares the same interests as you. Find some vegetarian singles group or something.
If so, then she isn’t much of a woman. The best way to get them back is the future. I’m a vegetarian and I’m very healthy. So once they develop health problems over their own habits, they’ll come to terms with your style. The women that find you unattractive for this are not the best choice for partners. Find a woman that’s either vegetarian herself or accepts your lifestyle.
Well, just ignore them. I mean, there are some vegetarian women out there. Don’t let other people change your appearance on being a vegetarian.
I like MEATY MEN!
You know…..
I reckon you should stick up for what you believe. Don’t make fun of them, cause you will be acting like them. In ignorance.
There is nothing incorrect with this choice of life. Maybe you are just around the incorrect crowd.
People that make fun of you are just jealous because you look far better than they do. Guys who don’t eat meat are sexy imo.
i personally do not see a vegetarian or vegan man as unattractive. heck, my husband’s a vegan!
you don’t “get back” at those people who make fun. simply chalk it up to ignorance and ignore what pitiful remarks they have to say about your vegetarian diet. it’s amusing how most omnivorous people who make fun of my diet get sick frequently or are stout. don’t stoop down to their level by criticizing their appearance (just do it in your mind ::wink-wink:: j/k)… someday (i hope), they’ll be able to see the benefits of a veg diet.
I don’t reckon anyone would have any objections to that per se; problem is that most vegatarians I know constantly beat people over the head with their “meat is murder” nonsense, not to mention their healthier-than-thou attitude. Just live and let live, okay?
you wouldn’t be to me…as long as you didn’t hinder my carnivous appetites.=)
but anywho…don’t listen to them other peoples let them lead their lives how they want and go about yours how you wish to and if you find a woman who is alright with you being a vegitarian or is one also then that’s showing those small sighted people up right there,right?
Your revenge is that when they end up obese, and have heart disease later down the road, you will be healthy as a horse.
It sounds like you may be what I term a comulsive/preachy vegetarian that maintains his diet with religious fervror. If you are that kind of vegetarian you will find plenty of company on this board . . . but you will not find “normal” people and that includes vegetarians as well.
You will not be able to “get back” at these people, but they will forever and a day be able to push your buttons … plus . . .they get the women. It’s not a matter of a “man’s man” diet. I have plenty of friends . . . men and women who go about their vegetarianism without a lot of fanfare.
I guessing you are not one of those but seek to “convince” others. You will remain out of the mainstream and you are destined to be the butt of many jokes and you will appeal to women only as fanatical as yourself.
i find veg*n guys very attractive. (unfortunately, i don’t know any personally!) lol calling someone a stout slob doesn’t sound like the best thought.. people should be more respectful of your lifestyle choice! next time you should say something like “i really don’t like you poking fun at how i live my life” there is nothing incorrect with taking care of yourself. its our culture that is screwed up, not us.
no u r not less attractive just reckon u will live longer then them
Just be more pleased and more likeable than they are. That is the greatest revenge.
Putting people down only makes them feel like they have us figured out as elitist snobs.
Your friends will get used to your diet. If you don’t react to their teasing they’ll realize they’re acting like the boys in the back row in grade four.
You’re generally outnumbered by women in the vegetarian community. Seriously, we vegan girls need more guys.
Don’t bother with revenge. Focus your energy on your health and the wellbeing of the animals, and vegan and vegetarian women’ll be attacking you like those men’s perfume ads.
Dont make fun of them. if they make fun of you because you want to live longer and delight in life longer, then they arent worth knowing, stay away from them.
Personally, i dont mind a man being a vegetarian. i reckon its pretty cool, because im trying to diet and going vegan would help alot for me, so having a man around eating only healthy foods would be a huge help.
Well done for being right, you long run you will be pleased, prosperous.
I assume you are making reference to the American way of life of SAD (Standard American Diet). In my opinion
1. Most cultures eat healthy, UK is becoming healthier.
2. In long run, they will be a living joke by being unhealthy, less vibrant, lived only once as small life.
3. Choose a different set of friends and right friend will get influenced by you and righteousness always prevails.
Most vital eat according to your body type. You may consume healthy organic wholesome foods but still be unhealthy. Again you make consume all so call healthy foods still be sick.
In study medical nutrition, natural medicine, I found only certain set of foods are excellent for you and others may be poisonous. Learn your constitution according to Ayurveda.
Evidently you are wearing your diet on your sleeve, why? What you eat is your business but if you obsess about it this could be why people are giving you the “huge eye”. I eat what I eat and no one really knows….I can’t know the reasoning of some people that they must announce every thing they do and be offended when someone voices an opinion. Are you a vegetarian for your health or to be in with the in crowd???? If it is for you health then why does everyone have to know about it….I don’t see people who eat meat going around saying “I eat meat”.
NO not at all. I reckon it’s very attractive because it shows you care about your body and health goes right alongside hygiene. Recently I was sitting in a vegan Indian restaurant in Ann Arbor and close by this guy was talking to this girl. He was absolutely gorgeous. And it is very, very rare I find myself attracted to someone. But get this – he was talking about the environment and global warming! I grew up with abusive men and so I felt I was in the presence of a rarity – I even looked at his shoes to see if this kind of man existed. As far as I could tell they weren’t leather. He was clean with an edgy side but also obviously cared about his body and the world around him. And to top it off. . .after his meal, he walked into the guitar place next door. Be still my heart lol. He was the sexiest man I’ve come across at least in recent memory.
Don’t you want a woman as compassionate and empathetic as you are? Don’t you want a woman who is as health conscious as you are? If so, then who cares two sh*ts about what the women you mention are saying? They’re not worth your time because the one who is probably going to be somebody sensitive and caring and health conscious and can place themselves in the place of another, no matter what being they happened to be born as in a matter of circumstance.
I reckon you’re more of a man. I’ve never liked the too-macho-four-your-own-excellent type. It’s disgusting. You are a man because you don’t have to try to prove yourself or do things to “fit” under a certain category. That speaks volumes of you.
And you can feel excellent in knowing that they are too bone idle to pick up a book and dig into some research. That they take what mommy and daddy told them (which their grandparents told their mommy and daddy and so on) and take it as fact without question. That you look into alternative thoughts and such and go with what you know to be healthiest. Excellent for you. And your “getting back” will come later, when they are having heart attacks, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, obesity, etc. . .and you most likely will not.
It’s not worth your time or energy to be concerned over what they have to say. Laugh it off.
You will live a long healthy life and be virile when the other guys are dead. If you want just mock them when the opportunity presents itself, they aren’t polite to you so say what you want to them. My husband is a vegan and I am vegan most of the time and he is excellent looking at 41 years ancient when the rest of the guys his age are 100 pounds overweight, sick and impotent. So living well is the best revenge.
I dont reckon getting back at them is the answer. I reckon that it is fantastic that you have your own views and refuse to conform. Sooner or later you will find a nice girl who appreciates you the way you are. Maybe you could go to vegan or vegetarian groups and meet like minded people. as for the oppinions of your work colleagues and their oppinions – do you care? I have worked with lots of people and their life styles have been dull and petty – you work with them you rae not there to impress them.
Not to me. It is the right thing to do and I in the future desire to be a vegetarian as well. And since you’re a conspiracy theorist like me that can’t hurt lol
There is something a small fascinating about this concept. So many people, women especially, spend time worrying about their weight and how will they be able to wear certain kinds of clothes. This becomes more right as people get older.
Since you are concerned about health reasons it is probably a major point for you that it is a excellent way to achieve this weight control (without really thinking about it) that many people do by dieting and working out which lots of people cannot sustain.
It’s admirable. Ignore those slobs or else you are giving in.
No way are you less attractive because you are a vegetarian. No way, no way, no way.
By getting back at these people (the ones who arent being obvious jerks about it like your dates) I reckon you can simply clarify in an educated way why you eat the way you do (i.e., my body is a temple and I want to take care of it and you will appreciate me more when we are married and I am not a fatso slob that looks like he is about to have triplets!!) Ummm..really, you might avoid that one but seriously when they question you I would really be honest and say, “I do this for my health and I believe it is vital, it gives me energy, and helps me maintain an active lifestyle” or something to that effect..you need to make sure they know that you dont just shove any ancient thing into your mouth..if you want to make the comment smart @$$ to your friends you could say something like, “Well, I may be an American, but I dont have to eat like one” ROTFLMAO!!
Don’t respond. This only encourages their behaviour because they thrive off getting you upset. Ignoring it is the best thing to do. There are plenty of male vegetarian celebrities out there such as Dustin Hoffman, Michael J. Fox, Moby, Joaquin Pheonix, Orlando Bloom, Weird Al, Tobey Mcguire, Russel Simons, Outkast, and Andre 3000. No one goes around calling them queer. I personally feel more comfortable around vegetarians because I don’t fell like I’m on show all the time.
Nope, I reckon that you sound sexy. As do a number of health conscience sexy as hell women. You need to get back at them by finding a very VERY hot women to flaunt in front of them….. that’ll torture them for sure….lol.
You will most likely be unattractive to the people you don’t want to be with or around very long anyway.
Go vegan. Being vegan is hot. Do it for the animals, not for the women, and a hot vegan lover will find you before you know it.
Well the fact that you are seeking revenge makes you very unattractive as someone emotionally immature.
But, giving you the benefit that you are just venting, I will answer your question about whether or not you are less attractive to women because you are vegetarian.
I cannot tell you how impenetrably dull it is to be with a man or group of RADICAL vegetarians or vegans. All they talk about is “food gathering”, overly emotive about EVERY “incorrect” in the world and such things. I find them singularly one-dimensional and simply avoid them like the plague. Mentally they are undisciplined, undiscerning and unable to see another’s point of view. It’s black or white for them. In the parlance of the streets they are self-absorbed, lacking in social skills, nerdly dweebs. I may be incorrect . . . but I sense you may be one of those I have described. I just have that feeling.
And yes . . . on the whole and as a woman, I find them extremely unattractive and to be avoided at all costs.!
Nononononon. This is certainly not unattractive. You just need to find someone who supports your lifestyle, or another veg. Tons of women like guys who take care of themselves, and no one does it better than us veg-heads.
It doesn’t sound very friendly that your friends are labeling you as some kind of queer.
As for getting back at them, you really don’t want to do that. You’re just going to be stooping to their level. Don’t let it affect you, that’s what they get off on. You just need to ignore it. Society is cruel.