People of all sizes are beautiful, why pick sides?That's utter bullshit. If people of all sizes were beautiful, I wouldn't be posting at Metafilter because I'd be too busy sexually satisfying the non-stop parade of punani going through my bedroom. :)
Women were especially upset by my metabolism, more so than men.Such a surprise. It's never the guys saying this shit, or promoting this shit, it's women telling themselves this shit. Most guys are perpetually baffled when women act like it's a fucking revelation that their "small pooch", or thick thighs, are not in fact sexual death sentences.
Why would this [JC Pennys] dowdy Middle American entity waddle into Midtown in its big old shorts and flip-flops” without even a makeover of its logo, asked the columnist, Cintra Wilson, a virtual sneer seeming to drip from her keyboard. [...] the racks are full of sizes 10, 12 and 16, but not Wilson’s 2; the petites department has plenty of clothing “for women nearly as wide as they are tall”; and the store “has the most obese mannequins I have ever seen. They probably need special insulin-based epoxy injections just to make their limbs stay on.”The Times' "Critical Shopper" Wilson through a hissy fit because JC Pennys "invaded" midtown Manhattan. Quelle horreurs!
Marilyn’s reported measurements... 35-22-35 (Dressmaker’s Claim)I was 34-23-35 for many years, and I wore a four or a six, depending on the designer. So, yeah, "hefty?" Not.
lapolla: "i've known people who were out-right ugly, but were mad attractive; and i've known gorgeous people who were lonely, and socially isolated. charisma goes a long, long way.See, I don't think that's fair. Literally accurate, maybe even possibly, but not fair.
hincandenza, i think you have an extremely narrow and angry view of the world. due to this, your view may be very focussed, but it is not accurate."
ThePinkSuperhero: Well, witness Happy NakedThat's odd, I'm having the opposite reaction.PeopleThin Female Porn Stars.
I can't believe I followed the link expecting that site to be anything other than what it was. I'm getting soft.
"Results show that neither Indonesian nor Afro-American subjects judge overweight figures as attractive and healthy regardless of the size of WHR. They judged normal weight figures with feminine WHRs as most attractive, healthy, and youthful. The consensus on women’s attractiveness among Indonesian, Afro-American, and U.S. Caucasian male and female subjects suggests that various cultural groups have similar criteria for judging the ideal woman’s shape."No one was every claiming 0.7 was the universal ideal without exception, rather it is predictor of health and "the majority of men find this the most attractive". There is no doubt this preference can change with ecology, as in the case of the Hadza men, no one is arguing this preference is exclusively genetically determined. Cultural preference for WHR probably varies based on food availability, as the Hadza and Cameroonians lived in relatively food scared environments compared to the western populations who prefer 0.7.
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