Why did the body acceptance movement kinda skip over men?

I don’t think the top-rated comment currently is really correct about this. Like most things most people write, it’s a surface-level gloss of an apparent cause but doesn’t really understand any deeper causal factors. Also, it must be noted, the so-called “body acceptance/body positivity” movement morphed into the malignant fat acceptance movement that told people near death from excessive adiposity and who could not walk across a parking lot without stroking out that they were fine as they were. Any other concern was then ignored or discarded altogether.

The deeper reason — at least the top one of a few — that the body acceptance movement became prevalent among women and skipped over men is that women have a lot more intrasexual competition. Thus, women who increasingly could not compete in the arena they’d been given attempted to create a new one where their primary negative trait of unhealthy obesity was de-emphasized.

However, even in its initial form it failed as it misunderstood a few important facets of human nature and what men do and do not find attractive. Also, once the food companies hijacked it and it became the de facto obesity celebration movement it was completely done for.

Too many asides. To get back on track, the body acceptance/fat acceptance movement only cares about women because it was mostly a semi-conscious and hamfisted attempt to eliminate threatening competition from other women. It did not work, and could not have worked due to the fundamental miscomprehensions mentioned above — but that is a story for another day.