Not naturally small women, but wannabe “super models” and the like. And women with “six-pack” abs.
Just wondering. I think it may be so.
I have no idea what men’s contribution could be. Obesity?
Peace,
mangeorge
It’s much too soon for any Darwinian effects. The popularity* of the supermodel look is style and media hype, pure and simple. Designers (who are very often gay men) like women who look more like boys to wear their clothes. The style is accepted and become commonplace and suddenly women want to look that way (and models are expected to look that way more than anyone else).
*If it is actually popular.
Do you even have a clue as to how natural selection works?
50 years ago fashion models were somewhat thinner than the average woman, but not as thin as modern models. And fewer women were morbidly obese than today.
Back then people commonly ate potatoes washed down with a glass of milk, and if they ate regularly they had a thin layer of fat that showed it. Looking at the dancers in 1930’s musicals, you can see that although the women were active, they weren’t building lean muscle mass on high protein diets.
Today its a healthy green salad… with the option of it being drown in fatty dressing and washed down with a soda filled with processed corn syrup.
(I don’t think it’s due to the gay fashion elite. That one’s a historical constant)
Me?
Or RealityChuck
Please note my use of the adjective “scrawny”, not “slim”, nor “slender”, nor any of those other positive sounding descriptors.
I’m not advocating obesity.
What do you mean by “overpopulation?” As far as I know, the United States is capable of providing enough calories to meet the requirements of the world, probably with just the corn syrup solids.
Also, what sort of women are you talking about? “Scrawny” or “with six-pack abs?” Is there something about the latter that I’m not supposed to approve of?
If there’s overpopulation, then why are there so many fatsos? :dubious:
The whole OP confuses me. I have no clue what he’s asking.
I think what he had in mind is a kind of evolutionary response to overpopulation which manifests itself through people being able to survive while being incredibly scrawny. Like some kind of natural way for people to be able to live healthy or normal lives while their individual food supply gets thinned out.
If that is the question, then while I could certainly see something like that being plausible, I think any skinny model trend is just media manipulation and nothing more.
Actually, I thought that this had been debunked, no? Most supermodels, IMHO, look nothing like boys.
Anyway, why would women with six pack abs be an adaptation to overpopulation? I could maybe see that an overly thin woman would have trouble reproducing if she loses her period, but someone with six pack abs wouldn’t necessarily have that problem.
A woman with six-pack abs could hardly be described as scrawny, so I hope that the two aren’t being equated. A scrawny person wouldn’t have enough muscle for that, I would think.
What I’ve always heard is that clothes tend to look best on the coathanger. Models, ergo, tend to be built like coathangers.
Actresses also tend to be skinny, but not as tall.
In both cases, what looks good on camera under lighting doesn’t always look good in real life and vice versus.
I’m not sure if you can blame the media for the trend. If all of a sudden, every magazine cover featured fat people, fat would not be the new thin. Advertisers perform detailed research into what imagery triggers specific responses in their target audience.
I couldn’t tell you what mechanism in women’s head triggers the “must be thin” message. I would imagine it’s similar to men who feel a need to be huge.
Same here. Because they literally take up less room, maybe?
If a woman gets too skinny, she will lose her reproductive cycle and be unable to breed.
Yeah, but six pack abs doesn’t necessarily mean unhealthy skinny. In fact, it’s often a sign of health.
Six pack abs on a woman? That means that although they’ve got good muscles, they’ve dieted to the danger zone to lose body fat. Even on a man, you have to diet pretty severely to get that “cut” look, and on a woman it’s just about impossible.
Women who train for strength don’t usually look cut, because they don’t care if they have a thin layer of body fat over the muscle, the existance of the muscle is what’s important, not how the muscle looks. You have to both exercise like a maniac and starve yourself to look cut, and the goals are contradictory.
That’s not really true. Women who are atheletes eat more, just like male athletes do.
Well, I think of myself as having a six pack, and I don’t diet, nor am I in the danger zone regarding body fat. In fact, I weigh 125 lbs. and I’m 5’4. I just happen to be lucky with regard to my abs.
While your stomach looks awesome, I don’t consider that a six-pack. This is a woman with a six-pack and she’s clearly dieted down to very low body fat.