# Howsabout A Futuristic Movie Where All the Women Are Plump? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475 "2003-08-02T01:17:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/1 "2003-08-02T01:17:57Z")
I was watching “Johnny Mnemonic” the other day, and it occurred to me that women in the “future” are always thin and beautiful, and I found myself wondering about a movie where the women of the future are all fashionable by being about 30 or 40 pounds overweight. You know, a future where the latest hot trend is to be “Reubenesque.” I think that would be great - a movie where all the women doing normal woman things are all heavy, where all the female leads are heavy, where all the drop-dead gorgeous bombshells that all the guys are drooling over are heavy - I would like to see this. Has this ever been done? Opinions? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/2 "2003-08-02T01:22:32Z")
Not likely. Movies about the future are really about the present, and in the present, most men like to look at thin women. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/3 "2003-08-02T01:24:59Z")
“Cagney and Lacey _ **Futurecops** _” ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/4 "2003-08-02T02:09:40Z")
I would so love to see that, a future for the zoftig woman. Probably be a flop though, despite all the tickets I would buy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/5 "2003-08-02T02:14:24Z")
I saw something on teevee a very long time ago. It could have been a Saturday morning kid’s show (_The Lost Saucer_?), but I don’t remember. Anyway, there was a young girl who falls into a society where everyone is fat. They think there is something wrong with her and try to fatten her up. Her friends land their space ship and rescue her, then show the heavy inhabitants of the planet how unhealthy their lifestyle is. ---
**Author:** ![homercles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed8c4c/32.png) [@homercles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/homercles)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/6 "2003-08-02T02:16:24Z")
Fat chics are nasty, end of story! Whos gonna wanna watch that? Cept for “chubby chasers” of course, which are about 1:1,000,000. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/7 "2003-08-02T02:20:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by homercles \* > \*\*Fat chics are nasty, end of story! Whos gonna wanna watch that? Cept for “chubby chasers” of course, which are about 1:1,000,000. \*\* Oh my… the fun just never stops. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/8 "2003-08-02T02:22:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Fat chics are nasty, end of story! Actually, the best sex I’ve ever had was with a girl who was about 5’9" and weighed 200 pounds. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/9 "2003-08-02T04:31:06Z")
See, that’s exactly the attitude of your average guy in my proposed future flick - the mindless fad followers like **homercles** go nuts for the heavy chicks because that’s what’s cool then. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/10 "2003-08-02T04:41:57Z")
I don’t think it’s a particularly good idea to make any one body type chic. There’s always going to be someone of the other body type who’s going to feel bad about themselves. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/11 "2003-08-02T04:45:04Z")
hit submit too soon… but if it’s only a movie, I think it would have a big enough audience. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/12 "2003-08-02T04:45:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by homercles \* > \*\*Fat chics are nasty, end of story! Whos gonna wanna watch that? Cept for “chubby chasers” of course, which are about 1:1,000,000. \*\* Since this is not the Pit, I’ll be nice. You, sir, are a First Class Boob! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/13 "2003-08-02T05:27:07Z")
Fat chics have First Class Boobs 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/14 "2003-08-02T05:49:38Z")
To have a society like that, they’d have had to figure a way to do away with all the men. A society with no men, made up of happy fat women. Hm. A worrisome thought, to a person with testicles… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/15 "2003-08-02T06:12:07Z")
In a way, this thread is about movies, so I’m shipping it to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/16 "2003-08-02T08:20:37Z")
**featherlou** , I wish to invest. I’m poor, but wishes are free, right? Since futurism has always been about projecting an exaggerated version of present trends into an imagined future, the only practical way to make a movie like that happen is to glorify larger sizes in the here-and-now. Can I put in a plug for Molly Price? Can I put in a… pl… \ Bedtime, folks. Just got real sleepy out. See ya 'round. ---
**Author:** ![lucwarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@lucwarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucwarm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/17 "2003-08-02T10:58:39Z")
A little off-topic, but I think that in the future, most women WILL be thin and beautiful and dress in ultra-revealing clothing, just like in cheesy sci-fi films. My prediction is that technology improve such that cosmetic surgery advances to the point where it’s as cheap, easy, and safe for a woman to be thin and beautiful as it is to put on some lipstick or shave one’s legs. Under such circumstances, it seems to me that most women will get such surgery for the same reason that most women wear lipstick and shave their legs. I also predict that women’s clothing will continue to get more and more revealing. The impression I get is that most women’s main resistance to wearing revealing clothing is insecurity about their appearance. If everyone is thin and beautiful, this is much less of an impediment. Just my opinion, I imagine it may be colored by wishful thinking a bit. ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/18 "2003-08-02T11:37:27Z")
I think **lucwarm** is right. We’re starting to see some of that now with people having botox parties right in their own homes! Yuck! But, **featherlou** , if you do find financing for that movie, let me know–my SO would love it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/19 "2003-08-02T13:41:33Z")
But if everyone is “thin and beautiful” then the standards will go way up! Infidelity will increase because of the lack of necessary attachment a man will feel towards his mate (why stick around when’s so many other, younger and prettier fish in the sea?)! Didn’t any of you see _The Human Face_ with John Cleese? ---
**Author:** ![lucwarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@lucwarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucwarm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475/20 "2003-08-02T14:22:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackeyes \* > \*\*But if everyone is “thin and beautiful” then the standards will go way up! \*\* It’s hard to predict what will happen to standards. If beauty is easily accesible to everyone, then people might not care as much anymore. \*\* > [@](#): > > Infidelity will increase because of the lack of necessary attachment a man will feel towards his mate (why stick around when’s so many other, younger and prettier fish in the sea?)! \*\* You forget that a person’s mate will be able to appear just as young and beautiful as anyone else. In any event, IMHO infidelity is more a result of love and sex becoming stale than a person’s mate becoming less attractive. \*\* > [@](#): > > Didn’t any of you see _The Human Face_ with John Cleese? \*\* No, what’s it about? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howsabout-a-futuristic-movie-where-all-the-women-are-plump/192475.md?page=2)