Slightly underweight or curvy/slightly overweight?

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I'm under the impression "super skinny" in your eyes is anyone who is thin period. ESPECIALLY if it's a thin woman. Everyone has their preferences and who are you to tell them if they find a thin woman attractive they have "psychological issues or mommy issues". Are you always this manipulative and insecure? What about men who go for obese women. What is their problem? I'm sure there's no problem in your eyes because at least it's not a skinny woman.

So much defensiveness over this topic. I don't see anybody hatin' on skinny women - what I see them hatin' on is a false portrayal of what is considered to be "normal and desirable" in physical attributes, as dictated to us by media via the fashion industry. EVERYBODY has their own particular preference, as this thread has clearly shown.

As far as I'm concerned, "normal" is whatever one's DNA dictates is normal for any given individual, combined with some level of attentiveness for keeping oneself reasonably healthy. I.e., no deliberate starvation of oneself, no utter disregard for the dangers of abusive overeating, no taking of drugs to make oneself super thin or super ripped.

The late-ish trend towards skinny emo boys in fashion is just as distasteful as the long-enduring trend of Twiggy-type female ideals in fashion. I honestly don't think there are many who find the uber-muscled types to be particularly attractive, either. I'd bet we all find Jessica Simpson as a young woman reasonably attractive - she's not too thin, she's not obese, she doesn't have ridiculously low body fat and pumped muscles. Some may prefer a woman a bit thinner, some may prefer a bit plumper. The point is that she is not any extreme, and that is why she was so attractive at that age. Some of us may naturally have a bit more padding; some of us may naturally have a bit less. Again, the key is: what is natural and healthy for YOU? No one should have to obsess over trying to be something they are not, so long as they are healthy.

I find Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander very attractive.


And I don't give a damn if men think her figure is unattractive, I want to look like her.

I never said that about fat men. The real men have curves I was joking. I'm just pointing out the hypocrasy there. I've never seen a fat guy being held up as a male beauty standard. So why should it be any different for women.

Anyway if a fat guy wants to date skinny women I don't have a problem with that. It's not illegal or anything.

You do begrudge preferences though. You say that you don't like how men like skinny women. You typed it.
I bolded it for you.

You know young men are becoming gym junkies taking nasty stuff to try and get big and buff to become more appealing to women. Basically from women who have preferences like yourself. It's no different to women trying to become skinny.

MadeUnderground said it himself, he says most do it.

Yes, I didn't say every buff takes that, I saw your pic and you're normal, but as you said it most guys do it. Every buff I saw in the gym advised me to take one of those things, even the male instructors advised me to take muscle drinks - and no, they are not just proteins.

It's funny that when we point out that young guys are becoming gym and chemical junkies because of nowadays women's preferences, they go crying and accuse men of causing women to starve.

Tit-for-tat logic but it is not accurate at all.

Study after study and survey after survey are showing that straight men prefer curvy and average women over skinny, I am saying it again, the fashion industry is ruled by Gay men. Their ideal catwalk models who appear on tv and on magazines do not represent in any shape or form the common preferences of straight men.

have you ever met a straight man who likes anorexic catwalk models?


However, the other way around is a of different story: young guys not only are bombarded by the media how their bodies should look like, but a lot of girls do state boldly their preferences for buff, they say it directly or they say through their obvious reaction when they see some roided buff, all this create pressure and motivate guys to do anything to have a such body.

And yes, all this has a much more impact than any media over the young guys. Straight girls push guys directly and indirectly to take chemicals, while straight men are not to blamed for the whole false anorexia conspiracy theory.

I can't be bothered with all the copy pasting but just wanted to say I have no idea where you get the idea that I hate skinny women. I don't. I do begrudge whoever it is that touts the idea that all men prefer skinny women (Boo explained it above), I'm sorry if that wasn't clear in my posts.

For example, I find this too skinny, personally, and would struggle to comprehend how in a chemically ruled male brain, this body type alone (note: not the person itself) would be sexually appealing. However, it clearly happens so this is why I want to understand. And yes, I think it myst be some sort of pathology because this person does not look like a healthy human female to me and biologically speaking does not send signals of great fecundity - which is according to science, the primary motivator behind the mating attraction.



I don't like super buff guys either and Chris Hemsworth just happens to be a notable exception for me. I like people who are healthy and look after themselves and do like men with a gut too, actually I love it, it's so cute on some people as long as it's not a huge beer gut. So the fact that you are making all these assumptions about me means that you are not understanding my position either because you don't want to or because I haven't explained it well.

Either way, my overall position is that people should be healthy whatever they look like. If this girl above IS healthy, that's really all that matters and the fact that I think she should eat something is my problem.

As for the overweight women, I think you are on my case because you think I'm a rolly polly with an axe to grind. I am not.

Sure I agree she needs to eat something and doesn't look very well. But look at her bone structure, she is someone that is naturally skinny like other super models. You are being a bit selective.

For example I'll choose an extreme example. I give you Twiggy

I think she is very pretty and looks fine skinny



But here she looks anorexic




Super models are beautiful to you know.

I fully understand how the skinny super models can drive women nuts. But as boo said don't blame straight men, nothing to do with us.

She does look pretty in the first pic,willowy.Too skinny to be healthy in the latter.
That look would be unattainable for me because I have a larger bone structure.Im not beating myself up over it.
Anyway there is a saying,"meat is for man,bone is for the dog."
Models are suppose to show off the clothes,so the clothing looks like its on a clothes hanger.

Twiggy kind of reminds me a bit of my Aunty. Same body type she had four children, she is a very fit and healthy woman. Nothing wrong with being skinny. No need to put skinny people down.

Shapely and curvy is also attractive Misslizard so you are beautiful too.

but you keep avoiding the issue. Is Twiggy SEXUALLY appealing? She looks like a child. There is a word that describes people who are sexually attracted to children.

I would go for a tall woman a short woman. A curvy woman, a cubby woman and a skinny woman. Yes I would go for twiggy. I just used her as an extreme example to prove my point.

I'm a skinny guy to, if you saw what I looked like, you would probably say or think that I'm not mainly enough for you. I'm sure you would.

But meh keep on bashing on skinny people all you like. I give up. It really is impossible to through to people.

Like the point has been made over and over again. Seems pointless really.

I'm not too picky. I really could go either way.

Funny that generations of women since Twiggy have endangered their health by starving themselves to look like an underdeveloped teenager, which she herself does not favor. FWIW, she was 15 when she began modeling, and left the business before she was 20. So.....for 40-some years, an underdeveloped teenage girl has been the fashion industry's ideal of what a WOMAN should look like? That's the part that pisses me off.

***From Wikipedia: Twiggy and the magazines featuring her image polarised critics from the start. Her boyishly thin image was criticised as, and is still blamed for, promoting an "unhealthy" body ideal for women.[35][36] "Twiggy came along at a time when teen-age spending power was never greater," said Su Dalgleish, fashion correspondent for the Daily Mail. "With that underdeveloped, boyish figure, she is an idol to the 14- and 15-year-old kids. She makes virtue of all the terrible things of gawky, miserable adolescence."[37] At the height of her fame, Mark Cohen, president of Leeds Women's shop, had an even harsher view: "Her legs remind me of two painted worms." Yet Twiggy had her supporters. Diana Vreeland of Vogue stated, "She's no flash in the pan. She is the mini-girl in the mini-era. She's delicious looking."[37] In recent years Twiggy has spoken out against the trend of waif-thin models, explaining that her own thin weight as a teenager was natural: "I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly – being thin was in my genes."[38]"

It is not twiggys fault she was skinny. Don't blame her or put down her body for how she is.

I agree with you on the fashion industry. I don't know why they choose super skinny models etc. Maybe making women insecure makes them buy more. My guess. But at the end of the day if people want to be stupid lemmings that is their choice.

Anyway I'm out.

Well thank you. I am not putting down people who naturally have a small frame,it just looks unhealthy when women try to starve in a attempt to have a shape that is not natural to their frame.Slender and willowy is attractive,anorexia is not.