For X-Mas this year my sister gave me a Sports Illustrated swim suit calender(SP?).
365 days of women in swimsuits.
And I hate it.
On day 4 I find that the women are all waifs who make Ally McBeal look fat.
I love women. I love curvy women.
The swimsuit pics just turn me off. I am hoping that the pics get better and show women as they are in the real world and not the skinny chicks that Sports Illustrated thinks men want.
Am I the only one who finds that skinny stick figure women are un-attractive?
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It’s not the stick figures, to me, but there is something about the idea of model-as-fantasy-figure that’s fundamentally, and stylistically, unfulfilling.
Even though we’re supposed to recognize their names now, models were originally intended to show off the clothes more than themselves. And they all seem to have perfected an expression of aggressive vacuousness (hence adopted by women who aren’t even models in Maxim and its ilk) that’s intended to make the maximum visual impact in the first-half second, and it’s all downhill from there.
I also think that when you’re trying to appeal to matters of taste, you can be liked by the masses or loved by a few. Models are chosen so that everybody will find them just attractive enough.
I had last year’s calendar. Being the single male that I am, I kept the old pages in two piles when I didn’t throw them out or make notes on them: the ones I really liked (ahem), and the rest.
Going back through them, I realize that there’s a distinct difference between the women in the piles; the ones I liked all had actual facial expressions other than blank stares, and they all seemed rather, ah, bumpier than the rest, if you catch my drift.
But the others will be useful, I’m sure. I’m saving them for when my friend ships out - he’ll use them for currency in poker games or something, I guess. Beyond that I really don’t care to know.