If they have to choose from a list of candidates than the pollsters were already influencing the results before the polling even began, which is no surprise. Also, I still can't believe people find Megan Fox attractive.
Survey Reveals What the "Perfect" Male and Female Body Should Look Like
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Also, guys think that muscles should be larger than what women think muscles should be. It's hard to tell whether that's a result of media expectations or the more natural belief that being bulky is best in general.omega 616 said:
Perhaps the less muscular and more hairy male ideal from women is a result of media entirely? I have no idea why that's the case beyond blaming media. It seems feminine to me.
I can't agree more with this. Perfection doesn't exist as a whole, and you get a disaster when you try to combine "perfect" existing parts.AnthrSolidSnake said:
So, the "Perfect" person, looks physically and mentally healthy?
Huh, never would have guessed that.
Huh, never would have guessed that.
here, i've got much better examples than these malformed clay lumps
perfect female
hourglass shape is more or less what im getting at
perfect male
toned but not a roidasaurus
yes i know that these are anime pics but the fact remains these 2 are better looking than the action figure messes that are in the article
perfect female
hourglass shape is more or less what im getting at
perfect male
toned but not a roidasaurus
yes i know that these are anime pics but the fact remains these 2 are better looking than the action figure messes that are in the article
I have to agree somewhat with the general idea of the ideal woman to men. Not so much in the exact names/parts picked, but more in the general aspect of the woman being more curvy. That's always been more in line with my preference than the traditional stick thin flat supermodel.
I think people picking apart the images used for not looking natural/normal is rather silly being that all they are is just composites of what was selected. They don't look right because they weren't really intended to.
I think people picking apart the images used for not looking natural/normal is rather silly being that all they are is just composites of what was selected. They don't look right because they weren't really intended to.
Isn't Ryan Gosling just the perfect man anyway?
And isn't Christina Hendricks one of the sexiest women alive?
Like, not just from preference, I am pretty sure their statuses are colloquial at this point(at least in talk shows, media, etc.)
Then again, they still consider Megan Fox to be a paragon of sexy, so whatever >.<
[small]Disclaimer: Megan Fox is pretty, but not that pretty.[/small]
And isn't Christina Hendricks one of the sexiest women alive?
Like, not just from preference, I am pretty sure their statuses are colloquial at this point(at least in talk shows, media, etc.)
Then again, they still consider Megan Fox to be a paragon of sexy, so whatever >.<
[small]Disclaimer: Megan Fox is pretty, but not that pretty.[/small]
500 people = the opinion of the entire world.
*rolls eyes*
This stuff is just junk food for the bored! It is meaningless and holds no accuracy, nor does any poll.
Polls are like gambling, your results will be different every, single, time.
*rolls eyes*
This stuff is just junk food for the bored! It is meaningless and holds no accuracy, nor does any poll.
Polls are like gambling, your results will be different every, single, time.
I agree. I think it would have been better had the researchers built a procedural model in Flash or Java where you could play around with sliders for different parameters. Preferably with utterly ridiculous extremes to leave plenty of room for skewed ideals (and potential laughs from the people playing around with the program).weirdee said:
Actually, these sort of polls very often arent like that. A marketing poll is a very different thing to something like a political poll or a scientific survey.michael87cn said:
You carefully pick who is given the survey, you phrase the questions so that the only options give you the answer you want, and then you look at 100 different combinations and pick the one that best matches the result you wanted. End result: Same conclusion to the survey every single time, pretty much no matter what and regardless of how people answer.
There are a couple of companies who specialise in this sort of stuff. Client hires them with a specific thing they want marketed, and the survey company generates a survey that leads to a press release that says that specific thing. Fair chance this one was done by OnePoll - if you see survey-based UK marketing in the news, it came from them at least 50% of the time.
pfft, the perfect man would have the body of a football(soccer) player covered with a nice coat of hair and have a grizzly beard. Get the fuck outta here with those shaved bodies, needs more hair.
That airbrushed look has less to do with it being celebrity pictures, and a tad more with actual airbrushing - alongside with liberal use of a half-dozen other Photoshop tools.Gizen said:
Which makes this whole survey ridiculous beyond reason. We've apparently come so far that we're not even giving an opinion on what is the perfect human body, but on what flavour of pre-rendered fantasy we prefer.
That said: some of the reasons behind the choices are quite a lot more interesting than the actual answers. The male choices on both fronts seem rather lacking in subtlety (they take what they like, and add more). Is this actual preference, or merely an inability to be more concise than a general "boobs are nice"?
But hey, in the end this is a promotional stunt by a sex toy company. Hardly the time or place to do actual scientific research.
Careful reporting what women actually like in men, we wouldn't want the supplements industry to go out of business, would we?
Yup. Take this for what it is: either skewed marketing or the common unmitigated garbage from the scummy corners of the pop culture gutter.
You can't take the "perfect" shoes, (if such a thing could even be overwhelmingly established) and put them on the same person with the "perfect" shirt... why shoes? there are totally different footwear classes that all have their own place (in the case of men, especially). Same with shirt types, what type of look they're for, and whether they should be visible is going to be subject to a type of look you need to forge.
Or take rather the idea of trying to fit the ideal eyes with the ideal nose, on the ideal facial bone structure, with the ideal jaw shape; all being selected and assembled blindly by royal decree of the lowest common denominator.
If there was any credibility to this nonsense (which is the same asinine {apparent} attitudes to beauty that has been routinely confirmed and re-confirmed in UK media culture for as long as I can remember) then there wouldn't be porn genres.
Stipulations are going to change significantly and not without contradiction depending on what kind of flavour you're looking for. Even within individuals, who provided they're older than their mid-teens, are going to have a mature and varied collection of preferences according to types.
Typically if it's set that you have a red-headed lady, then you're going to want pale skin and red lipstick to go with it, and will need green somewhere such as in eyes, earings or upperbody wear to properly compliment the look.
While women who're overly skinny or simply not remotely voluptuous don't typically appeal much for men; they have their place, which would usually be part of a petite/youth angle. Not necessarily because it works in and of itself; but coz in a corner of the male psyche, there's something to be said for being able to man-handle a little woman, and it goes towards that.
"Megan Fox's face and Kim Kardashian's breasts"... my lord.
I mean really? Kim Kardashian has the market cornered on breasts? These are aimless celebrity approximations where the only clear answers you're likely to hear are from people who lack sophistication.
Megan Fox face, Kim Kardishian breasts, Frank Lampard legs just practically spells it out that the male perspective represented was predominantly the chav and football dad vote and a lack of people who could think of something better to say.
Kardashian is perhaps some crude, lowest common denominator way of communicating that ideally, they would be about a handful with a bit to spare and relatively perky or firm (plus hands are different sizes and fake is certainly not the 'ideal').
'How to use widely recognised celebrities to approximate that?' *derp* "Kim Kardashian. hurr durr"
and immediately from trash TV, we go to "dat gurl ooh waz 'ot on dat bike in Tranzvormerz". Got to include her, but can't recall anything besides her face.
... and of course, football legs to go with your bodybuilder's upper body.
legs?... uh, who's a famous person known with significantly relevant legs? *derp* "Frank Lampard" cuz UK.
You can't take the "perfect" shoes, (if such a thing could even be overwhelmingly established) and put them on the same person with the "perfect" shirt... why shoes? there are totally different footwear classes that all have their own place (in the case of men, especially). Same with shirt types, what type of look they're for, and whether they should be visible is going to be subject to a type of look you need to forge.
Or take rather the idea of trying to fit the ideal eyes with the ideal nose, on the ideal facial bone structure, with the ideal jaw shape; all being selected and assembled blindly by royal decree of the lowest common denominator.
If there was any credibility to this nonsense (which is the same asinine {apparent} attitudes to beauty that has been routinely confirmed and re-confirmed in UK media culture for as long as I can remember) then there wouldn't be porn genres.
Stipulations are going to change significantly and not without contradiction depending on what kind of flavour you're looking for. Even within individuals, who provided they're older than their mid-teens, are going to have a mature and varied collection of preferences according to types.
Typically if it's set that you have a red-headed lady, then you're going to want pale skin and red lipstick to go with it, and will need green somewhere such as in eyes, earings or upperbody wear to properly compliment the look.
While women who're overly skinny or simply not remotely voluptuous don't typically appeal much for men; they have their place, which would usually be part of a petite/youth angle. Not necessarily because it works in and of itself; but coz in a corner of the male psyche, there's something to be said for being able to man-handle a little woman, and it goes towards that.
"Megan Fox's face and Kim Kardashian's breasts"... my lord.
I mean really? Kim Kardashian has the market cornered on breasts? These are aimless celebrity approximations where the only clear answers you're likely to hear are from people who lack sophistication.
Megan Fox face, Kim Kardishian breasts, Frank Lampard legs just practically spells it out that the male perspective represented was predominantly the chav and football dad vote and a lack of people who could think of something better to say.
Kardashian is perhaps some crude, lowest common denominator way of communicating that ideally, they would be about a handful with a bit to spare and relatively perky or firm (plus hands are different sizes and fake is certainly not the 'ideal').
'How to use widely recognised celebrities to approximate that?' *derp* "Kim Kardashian. hurr durr"
and immediately from trash TV, we go to "dat gurl ooh waz 'ot on dat bike in Tranzvormerz". Got to include her, but can't recall anything besides her face.
... and of course, football legs to go with your bodybuilder's upper body.
legs?... uh, who's a famous person known with significantly relevant legs? *derp* "Frank Lampard" cuz UK.