 Stadiem maintained that Farouk's bad reputation was because of sizeism, charging that Farouk was condemned for his lifestyle because he was fat and bald.Stadiem wrote that John F. Kennedy, who likewise came from a privileged, upper class background was just as sexually aggressive as Farouk, but because Kennedy was not "bald and obese", he attracted nowhere near the same level of abuse as did Farouk.Stadiem argued that Farouk was an intelligent leader whose efforts to lever the British out of Egypt might have worked with enough time, and he was unfairly mocked for his baldness, his weight, and his lifestyle.