Yep came here to say just this. How long have we watched beautiful women with the chubby dad who’s not a good husband or father but somehow we are suppose to believe she’s still head over heels for him.
Family Guy, The Simpsons, Gumball, The Fairly Oddparents, American Dad, all off the top of my head. Plenty more that I'm not thinking of, but I can easily continue considering this is a trope that's been around forever. Yet it's somehow a problem in role reversal with a chubby wife
Wasn’t there an episode of Stan getting anorexia because of his weight insecurity?
Also I think it more just displays the issue that gorgeous/competent wives in fiction always gets together with oafish and usually physically unattractive husband despite the fact they can (and usually acknowledged even by husband) they can do better.
You rarely see the opposite in cartoons and sitcoms
Go back further. Ralph Cramden on The Honeymooners. Though to be fair Jackie Gleason was so good in that role. And Audrey Meadows was just so good at bouncing off his character they just clicked.
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u/Fickle_Ad_2112 4d ago
Plenty of big fat men with skinny women on shows. Always have been