TheWalkingDead
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Aisha said:TheSkaFish said:Aisha said:What you seem to be describing is an average sized woman. Not fat, not thin. I don't know if others find that odd but if so, there are a lot more women of average size than there are of the extremes. Maybe that makes these others 'odd'.
Yeah, I don't think my taste is "odd" either, so perhaps it doesn't truly belong in this thread. I was just reminded of something from that recent "beauty" thread and it made me think about how the media basically says, thin is always good and any and all fat is always bad. I don't think that's true, though. I just wanted to point out that my ideas of what is attractive are not the same as celebrities, supermodels, and a lot of women in the media.
Also, I feel that I would be more likely to gravitate to women who are slightly overweight than underweight.
That's true, media does imply that thin is better. I have been underweight, overweight, and everything else except obese. I feel much more insecure while overweight than when underweight, and that is probably partly due to skinniness being the ideal image in society. Weight changes for everyone eventually, and I don't think it's unusual to have a preference. I think the current leaning, even in the media, towards holding fit women as the ideal is the best positive change that could have happened. Hopefully that's the image that will be promoted and retained, for the sake of everyone's health.
It's also funny how things change over time. For example curvy women used to be the ideal portrayed in art etc, because at a time before widespread wealth, having nice amounts of body fat signified wealth and health so were attractive qualities. Thin meant you were probably starving or had consumption (tuberculousis) and wouldn't survive a dose of whatever disease was rife at the time The same went for people painting their teeth black to appear more attractive (in the olden days black teeth meant they could afford this expensive new imported sugar fad!).
The media around is indeed a real pain - throwing these images of thin women around but sandwiching them between advertisements for high fat, high sugar, unhealthy foods! It's all ridiculous!