What's so great about skinny women?

[GonzoGamer]

to be attractive to me a woman needs to have fat, i'm not saying she needs to be obese but she does need to have hips and breasts... not bony stick arms and a visible ribcage.

I would agree.
Until college, all the girls I had ever been with were skinny.
After trying it, I can see the appeal of "more cushion for the pushin."

"I like a woman with a BIG BUTT. One I can whip with a car antenna." -- Garrett Morris (SNL)

And really until Twiggy, skinny wasn't considered attractive but sickly. Go back a century or two and larger women were much more attractive to most. It was a sign of wealth and proper upbringing for a woman.
Try reading some of those old love poems by Chaucer or Shakespeare and you'll see it. Like back then it seemed to be a good sign if you couldn't see any of the bones at the base of a woman's neck (Clavicle).

 

[DaMullet]

I believe Mr Prima can that answer that for you...

I'll take that and raise you Queen and AC/DC

 

[smithy_2045]

There's so many problems with this whole thing that it's crazy. Women can't be thin without being called anorexic, but at the same time they can't have any fat or they're called obese.

Having said that, there's also a worrying trend of society labelling girls that are clearly overweight as being a normal, healthy weight. So yeah, I dunno where I'm going with this post.

 

[Something Amyss]

I think obesity (the lack of) is an analogue for success and health. We all know obesity is unhealthy and we are hard coded to find unhealthy things unattractive (evolution has shaped us to want healthy partners for healthy children).

Historically, that really wasn't the case. We're hard-wired to find "healthy" people, but that didn't change the desirability of rather obese people. Not 99% body fat super-morbidly obese people, but people who very well would be obese in modern society.

It's a very recent phenomena that pushes the concept of "super slender" as anything other than "starving."

I'll take that and raise you Queen and AC/DC

And Antigone Rising agreed.


Sorry, just wanted to post the cover. >.>

 

[DaMullet]

Actually its more expensive to eat out at fast food restaurants then to eat healthy at home. Eating nutritious is only hard where you are a lazy bastard who does not want to cook.

This is very true. You can get a lot of fruit and veggies for like $20, like a weeks worth for a small family, and only 2 maybe 3 meals at a fast food place, depending on where you go.

 

[MetalMagpie]

But the girls in your video are not slim, they are borderline skeletal, which is really fucking gross in my mind.

Keep in mind that the people you just described as "really fucking gross" are human beings with feelings. Just a thought.

Horribly unstable feelings that may cause them to gain or lose 20 pounds on a whim.
I could care less if they have feelings, everyone has feelings.
That doesn't stop me from saying "Fox News is full of shit" and "Pedophiles are horrible people".
Unless you want me to try and not be offensive?
I have a relevant video for you
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And you know this how? You have seen ONE photo of each of these women. You know nothing about them.

Insulting someone for being thin doesn't make you the cool kid. It just makes you insulting. Being rude about faceless corporations (and categories of criminal) is not offensive to anyone. Being rude about someone for an aspect of their physical appearance is offensive to a lot of people.

I'm not going to tell you to avoid ever offend anyone. I'm just reminding you that if you're happy to make that kind of comment based on a person's weight, you shouldn't feel superior to those who feel happy making similar comments based on a person's skin colour.

 

[Missile.x]

You seem to have misunderstood; thing is, when i say skinny, I don't mean stick thin; I mean small, but proportionately so. I get a little annoyed when everyone's going on about not looking thin because curves are so much better. I don't want to put on loads of weight, so i don't. But no, I don't believe that I'd look more attractive if I did.

You're probably right about the weight-gaining thing, but I don't actually want to gain weight. I like my body the way it is. Also, I've noticed that whenever I put on weight, it goes to my stomach and thighs and not to the nice places I'd rather it went.

Finally, I'd like to point out that I never actually said I'M under pressure from the media and so I do whatever it tells me to do. I was merely saying many women are. They want to look skinny to fit in with the latest fashions. But yes, it is a no-brainer that if someone just likes you for the way you look then why would you want to spend time with them.

Then target your stomach and thighs with exercise in addition to your eating habits. The fat will get broken down and you'll build muscle in those areas, leaving fat with less "room" to grow into (and since you'll be burning calories with exercise, less fat growing at all).

As for women who honestly feel pressured by the media....isn't that sort of their fault? Perhaps the notion is just too foreign to me, but I've never actually cared what people thought of me as a person. I just put my best foot forward and do the best I can, and piss on anyone who dislikes me or what I stand for. Media/peer pressure doesn't bug me one bit. *shrug*

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm actually pretty happy with my body the way it is. But I'm sure this advice would work, if I did want to put weight on in other places, enough.

I see what you're saying. I'm slightly sceptical of this myself, but I can completely see how it happens :/ Many are socialised to treat the media like gospel. It can lead people to believe that if you don't like the way you look, just copy what someone who the majority think is attractive. Of course, this doesn't always work, hence why there are so many girls with orange skin walking around the 6th from centre I go to. If you don't feel pressured the the media then that's good for you (no sarcasm intended), but as you probably know, not everyone is that secure.