Beauty and the Beast - Why are fat sitcom husbands paired with great-looking wives? By Matt?Feeney

Have you ever noticed how all of the wives in SitComs are hot, and all the husbands dumpy?

Ever wonder why the fatass red states love Everybody Loves Raymond? (which, admittedly, has the least male weight to femail beauty ratio.)

Slate has. Or at least one of their freelancers.

Beauty and the Beast - Why are fat sitcom husbands paired with great-looking wives? By Matt?Feeney: "If family sitcoms really are a Rorschach blot for their male and female viewers, then we're either in really bad shape or coping surprisingly well?in the same scenarios in which women perhaps identify their own desperation and martyrdom, men seem to find sweet, elemental fulfillment."