What's so great about skinny women?

[DBLT4P]

Playing a bit of the devil's advocate here, but: whats so great about large breasts?

As with almost anything that is found attractive, it is purely a matter of taste, and like most things it probably follows a bell-curve. What is considered "fashionable" at any point in time may skew the bell-curve and/or result in the objectification of extremes, and extremes, especially when dealing with anatomy and weight, are frequently unhealthy.

The major problem I see with things like this is the pressure put on people, and others' expectation of everyone to meet those extremes.

 

[OldGus]

I get so sick of this whole "skinny people need to man-up and eat something. They look horrible!" thing. What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that if I weren't skinny, I'd have to put up with snarky comments about my body shape. You see, I know for a fact that at the age of 17, with my petite body shape, if I put on weight, I wouldn't get this "curvy" body shape people go on about. I'd simply be fat . . . with small breasts (In fact, I use the term "breasts" very loosely here ;D) and I'd lose my slim waist-line. To the majority, I'd be considered a lot less attractive and my esteem would be even lower than it already is.

K, now I'm done ranting about that, I'm gonna repeat the point that beauty is in the eye of the beholder etc. ya-da-ya-da-ya-da. All body shapes are bound to be attractive to someone I'm sure, but personally, while wishing to stay "skinny", I'm in no way saying that being under-weight in terms of weight-to-height ratio is okay. Sounds insanely clichéd, but women are under a lot of pressure from the media to be thin. Funnily enough, I actually feel slightly victimised when I watch television and everyone's going on about how skinny is ugly and everyone should be "curvy". Sadly, for some of us, that's not an option.

Have you tried eating soy? (Obviously with a small increase in the fats in your diet, and some women I know swear by a certain weight training exercise, as that will actually increase muscle size and fat stores in that area.) Long story short, and something no male vegan would be proud to tell you, is that soy, either soy beans or tofu, increases the amount of estrogen in your body. There are other foods that contain pseudo-estrogens (like the regular kind, but it doesn't come from humans,) and if you want to know more, breast cancer sites have entire lists of them, as they are important things to avoid for any with estrogen-receptive cancer.

 

[OldGus]

Anorexia is a horrible mental condition and thinspiration aggravates and enhances the negative effects.

There's no problem with being skinny, but there is a problem with starving yourself till you're so malnourished you get confused for a xylophone.

Some people look like that without starving themselves, just like some people look "chubby" without cramming their faces full of cake. The way someone looks does not provide you an entirely accurate picture of their health. Assumptions made about skinny people are just as wrong as those made about fat people.

Absolutely, that's why I took care to point out that there is nothing wrong with being skinny. As long as you eat healthily and get all the nutrients you need then being skinny is wonderful.

But starving yourself to be unnaturally skinny is not Ok. Encouraging people with anorexia to continue to starve themselves so that they look good is wrong, and thinspiration is manifestly harmful by enabling anorexics view that unhealthily thin is beautiful.

Both have valid points. Nobby, good and important. The ones who naturally are skinny are still, as far as fat and muscle, healthy. You do need a certain amount of both. Starving yourself skinny, the safe amounts are eaten away.
Dastardly, good points. Some people are skinny like that naturally. Not many. And if we are just pointing out the ribs bit, I can be included, and I do not consider myself skinny or weak.

 

[Jake the Snake]

Skinny, I mean, healthy skinny is fine. THAT was not ok. That was borderline anorexic. There wasn't even any muscle. Just paper thin. Gross.

 

[NiPah]

The words "like" and "love," "dislike" and "hate" are among the most frequently used in the English language. Everyone knows what is meant by these terms. Therefore, when we state that we feel "attracted" to a certain person, it is unlikely that we will be asked to define our use of the verb "attracted." It is far more probable that we will be asked why it is that a particular person has evoked our positive regard. Probably we will reply by making reference to some of the person's "good qualities" such as his honesty, his sense of humor, or even the cowlick on the back of his head. While explanations referring to qualities which seem to "compel" admiration are frequently given, we shall see that the phenomenon of interpersonal attraction is much more complicated than such explanations would imply. If it were not, this book would consist largely of a listing of all the favorable adjectives in the dictionary. We shall see that although the qualities and behavior of another play a large role in determining whether we will find him attractive, researchers have found that the eye of the beholder is as important as that which is beheld. One must refer to the qualities of the attracted as well as to the qualities of the attracter to achieve predictive accuracy in interpersonal attraction.

All of the research we will report in this book was conducted in an attempt to answer the general question of why people like the people they like. In their search for the determinants of interpersonal attraction, researchers have measured attraction in a great number of different ways. A hasty reading of the research might leave the impression that the way one researcher measures "interpersonal attraction" bears little relationship to the way in which another researcher has assessed "interpersonal attraction." Things are not really so chaotic as one might think, however. Almost all experimenters who are interested in interpersonal attraction investigate variables which may affect an individual's positive or negative attitude toward another person. These attitudes are sometimes measured by noting where an individual places an X on a scale in response to the question, "How much do you like this person?" Sometimes positive or negative attitudes toward another are assessed by noting an individual's tendency to associate with another person, to do favors for another, to glance at another, and so on. The relationship of all these measures to the central construct of "attraction" becomes clearer if we consider for a moment just what psychologists mean when they use the term "attitude.?
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/BIB/HTF/IA.htm#01

I think that sums it up quite well.

 

[ChickenZombie]

I do not care either way.

Preference? Somebody with some actual mass. But personality beats all.

 

[SarahSyna]

Personally, I think thin women can be very beautiful. But skinny,as in heroin chic skinny, women scare the crap out of me because so many of them look like they're going to die. That may appeal to some people, but I rather date someone who isn't going to drop dead of malnourishment at twenty-five.

 

[Baneat]

Can someone please explain why I prefer coca-cola to pepsi?

The differences, they are superficial(Ultimately the difference is probably way less than people think),
Perhaps the marketing team has gotten to me (Societal perception),
Or maybe I just prefer the taste from preference (Natural tendency)

But the fact remains at the end, that I prefer coke. Why is it? I personally think it's personal taste; you can disagree with me, say I've been poisoned by the marketing department, but there's really no provable way you can do this (Without going out of the scope of the analogy, you can't double blind test women).

And in fact, I don't even like the tanned-bleachedblonde-faketits thing that the marketing department assumes I do:

(Google imaged "Hot Girl" ;D)

But I think as long as they fit within their general natural frame (Fake tits do NOT fit this, for example because very skinny women fit small tits, and naturally larger women larger ones) then it works for them, smaller or larger (I don't really think anyone is naturally massively fat either, nor incredibly thin, but petite-heavier is a wide and very inclusive range to be in)

 

[Radelaide]

Unfortunately, most people are... trained to think thin is beautiful. It's not just women who think that being a size 10 (Australian size here) isn't great, men are also under huge stress to stay thin. With that training comes the though "Doing this with a size 0 is better than a size 10."

I'm 72 kgs (158lbs) and sometimes I'm not happy with that but it's who I am. I'm not over weight, I'm pretty average and it's better to have a little meat on your bones than nothing at all!

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I hate how people say "thin is in". Yeah, obesity is a problem, but super-skinniness is just as bad. Damned mass media...

 

[General Vagueness]

I'd show you but I'd get banned, maybe I can just suggest you Google "distension"-- I don't know how real it is, but....
other than that, nothing is so great about them, I prefer what you might call properly proportioned women in general, I don't like seeing bones poking out

 

[A Free Man]

What is good about skinny women is that they are attractive. It isn't just about the look, it is the implication that they are willing to work on their appearence. For some staying skinny is quite dificult, so the the fact that some people are willing to work out, or excersise in order to maintain a healthy look implies to me that they are more interested in finding a partner then others. Maybe this is a misconception on my part but I've found it is often true. What you are talking about is not what I'd call skinny, it is Anorexia which is very unhealthy and usually borderlines obsession if it isn't a full blown addiction. That is not an attractive look and there is nothing good about it.

 

[Penguinishka]

What I learned from this thread:

- There are many varied an interesting opinions on the merits of being skinny.

- One shouldn't type a search term into google, if they aren't already aware of what it means.

- Apparently there are things called thinspiration videos on youtube. I wish I could unknow and unsee that.

 

[Nouw]

Spoiler: My little input

"What do you mean? We're all so fat!"-The attitude of all my female friends. Of course I'm in High School

Now that that's off my chest, the video you showed us featured a woman which I'm sure is anorexic. There's skinny and too-skinny-to-be-healthy. I don't really like woman that are bony >.>

 

[InfiniteSingularity]

Better than fat women

 

[BabyRaptor]

Some people just think it's hot. I don't see it personally, but...Whatever floats your boat.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Its just the newest image of perfection that everyone is trying to chase. Fat people used to be sexy in the victorian era because usally to be fat you also had to be rich so fat meant wealthy.

I agree with you. the last thing i want to do is fuck a skeleton with a thin layer of skin an perfect hair. I want my woman to look like the have a sandwich every now and then. And not some lettece sandwich with low cal dressing. I mean a real fucking sandwich...a HAM sandwich.

 

[00slash00]

i find super skinny girls very unattractive and even normally skinny girls arent that attractive to me. i like girls with curves and a little bit of weight on them. ill take a fat girl over a skinny girl

 

[Strazdas]

whats so great about fat women? neither of the extremes are great, but we need variety to appeal to all tastes. for me, its not the looks that matter.

 

[Titan Buttons]

There is nothing wrong with being thin, there is with having a mental/eating disorder that makes you want to be a twig