Quonk, I was thinking the same thing. If she was that concious about her “full-figuredness” she wouldn’t be wearing things like belly shirts and the like.
I think this is just her way of drawing attention to herself. I mean, what better a way to get plenty of people thinking about how fat she ISN’T?
Aww man. I was all worked up to see a cool-looking fat woman, not this anorexic…ugh!!!
Uh, is full-figured supposed to be a bad thing?
Oh, yeah, Spooje. Don’t you know that you’re supposed to be attracted to heroin-addict Calvin Klein models that want to die?
Oh, that’s right. I keep forgetting.
Damn. I can’t laugh at this, because a teenage friend of mine seems to think she’s too fat to be attractive. O for some sort of magic wand to make the sort of people who perpetrate the idea that “if a woman isn’t a stick with boobs she’s ugly” could realize the consequences of their actions. That or, for just 24 hours, let them feel the way people who are regularly called “ugly” do.
*%#@ media!
CJ
Another twenty pounds on most Hollywood starlets would be an improvement.
And lose the implants.
Regards,
Shodan
As long as the thundering herds of rabble keep thinking Size 0 is “normal” or an “ideal”, these things will continue.
Lose the implants? Nooooooooooooooooooo! You can keep the crusade on weight and body image if you must, but PLEASE, for the love of all that’s good, don’t take the boobies away!!! I mean, the boobies are like the benefit of added weight, if there is such. You want every girl to gain twenty pounds, I suppose it won’t make much of a difference, but to simultaneously deprive the world of boobies is going too far. I’m drawing a line in the sand on this one, I don’t care real or fake, boobies is boobies…until you touch 'em I suppose, but I ain’t gonna be privileged to touch Hollywood boobies no matter what their origin.
Leave us lonely, unattractive losers something to enjoy, will ya?
Am I the only one who opened this thread thinking it was about Elvis?
>> This woman’s talents are being overlooked or even dismissed on the basis of a completely unrealistic size expectation.
Not by me. I’d do her any time.
Ahhh finally, this thread takes the turn I expected. The herds of doper men rushing in to say they prefer overweight women.
Meanwhile Pamela Anderson is the best selling Playboy Centerfold of ALL TIME.
I’m curious as to who’s buying all those magazines if everyone likes ‘girls with a little meat on them’
:rolleyes:
You knowjar, your insecurities do not influence other people’s tastes.
Some people like 'em skinny, some like 'em curvy and some like 'em in all flavors. Some, not many, but a few even like 'em fat.
And that girl is not fat, not by any stretch of the imagination.
a) Women who have at least something in the way of curves != overweight women, unless Raquel Welch was overweight.
b) Pamela Anderson is a recent Playboy centerfold (i.e. I bet more people are reading Playboy now than when it first appeared); she is also a mega-celebrity. Perhaps those have more to do with the fact that she’s the best-selling, etc., etc.
Gee, jar, my wife is a size 20, and I love her to death. Married eleven years now. Meanwhile, I couldn’t care less about Pamela Anderson. But I guess we’re all just liars, simply because you’re unhappy with your weight.
Woe is us, I suppose. :rolleyes:
Can you see her ribs? If you can’t see ribs, she’s a heiffer!
One day, while observing the Friday Afternoon Fashion Parade in the cafeteria, I was struck by something. The visible skeletons. The skin-tight, below-the-hip pants. The exposed torsos. Th bleached hair. The heavy eye makeup. I added it all up in my head, and realized who these young women were trying to emulate.
I then turned to my friend and said, “Why do these girls want to look like Iggy Pop?”
And just to throw in on the gay side, my bf is a hefty (although less so since he started Weight Watchers), and he’s hot to me.
And no offense, PLD, but you’re quite the hunk yourself, and you’d be sexy with ripped abs or as you are. I’m attracted to men with intelligence, inner strength, and sincerity, not because they fit a particular set of physical specifications. I daresay that straight guys think the same about women.
Frankly, Jar, your weight issues are in your head. Your only problem is that YOU can’t accept YOU. Your husband no doubt finds you sexy, and I’ve been told by DC Dopers who’ve met you that you are a beautiful woman. Self-confidence is the best aphrodisiac.
** jarbaby, ** what’s your point and your problem? Do you think it is a ** bad ** thing that Dopermen rush to say how much they appreciate all kinds of women, including fat ones? Are you implying that they are all lying? Is it only envisioning Playboy bunnies that gives my hunny a big fat erection when we’re in bed? Does my man secretly vomit after we have sex? Does your husband sit around complaining about how disgusting your cheesy thighs are all the time? (If he does, leave him immediately.) And if so, what exactly would be the motive?
And what in the world does someone like Pamela Anderson have to do with real life? She looks like a caricature of a woman…should we assume from this that we are repulsive unless we get tons of plastic surgery and bleach our hair and have fake breasts? That no man could really love us or want us without this?
Frankly, having seen pictures of you and having read a number of your rants on the subject of weight and appearance, your issues with your weight are simply stupid. Why you waste your precious time, creativity. and emotional energy on the immensely boring reality that you aren’t among the world’s thinnest and most stunning females, and are merely attractive in a normal human way, escapes me utterly. I’d almost feel sorry for you except that I know you are much too intelligent for this shit. Therefore instead of feeling sympathetic I just feel annoyed. Stop it. Appreciate what you have and find something meaningful to spend that energy on.
Cuz here’s a newsflash for you: if you woke up tomorrow looking like (____insert example of ideal female beauty here _____), it wouldn’t make you a better person, or a more interesting one. It would not uplift your spirit or enrich your soul. And if it brought you a little more attention or material things, you’d have to deal with the fact that it wouldn’t last. Whatever benefit it would bring you would be mostly wiped out by the time you’re 50, when you’d be flipping out over getting old and losing your oh-so-precious looks.
And that goes for everyone. Of course no one wants to be a troll, so for the 95% of us who have escaped that fate, be grateful and move on to issues that mean something.
I’ve discussed this at length before on the boards, and I don’t care to really get into it again.
I have no doubt at all that my husband finds me sexy, or that other men do. I have no doubt that there are men in the world who find women who are overweight sexy.
But there is a large population of men who like women thin, toned and tight. And I feel that today’s society and today’s women have created a sort of backlash where a man can’t admit that he likes to look at women with tight, flat tummies, perky tits, long, slim legs. I think a lot of men like to SAY they like women who are above average in weight because it makes them look good in the eyes of women.
I’m married to a man who is overweight by A LOT. I love him to death, but he also knows that I love men with ripped six pack abs, big biceps…muscles. I love athletes and men who have near to perfect bodies. I’m not going to lie about that.
I DO NOT, in anyway, think that the girl from American Idol is fat, but some poster on page one posted “darn, I thought it was going to be a sexy fat girl!”
To each their own, I just find it interesting that EVERY SINGLE MAN I’ve EVER TALKED TO in my life, and I’m not kidding, has said “Ew, Pam Anderson, I don’t like girls that look like that…” and yet…she’s still a star…
So SOMEBODY out there is lying. Maybe not any of the dopers…but it seems suspicious.
No biggie. I’ll just move on from here.
J
There has to be sociological treatise, or at least an amusing theory, somewhere in there. And now I’ve got “Lust for Life” in my head.