Thigh Gaps are SO 1990’s. Today the rage is all about the Bikini Bridge.
OK but again, plenty of women have relatively wide hips but are very thin–I’d count myself as one of them, for example. Gaining or losing weight isn’t going to change how wide my hips are.
And again, none of this says anything about fertility. If supposedly having wider hips makes it easier to give birth, it doesn’t mean anything about how easy it is for a woman to get pregnnat.
Reminds me of a Golden Girls bit (disclaimer - for the sake of the joke we are ignoring that leg warmers were worn around the ankles and calves):
Jazzercise leader, before class: You don’t have leg-warmers?
Dorothy: No.
JL: Then how do you keep your thighs warm?
Dorothy: Friction!
Small, low weight, thin hipped women have babies all the freaking time. Have you seen Asian women’s body types? Ain’t no shortage of Asians! I suggest you all just stop, you’re embarassing yourselves.
And this,
Not true, but not how you imagine. Society at large, and fashion magazines may indeed embrace skininess. But if you are a skinny girl people don’t hold back out of delicacy, on their opinion of your weight. I’m gonna wager not that many people have said right to your face, “I hate you you’re so fat!”, or perfect strangers commenting on whatever you’re eating, " Must be nice you skinny bitch!" Sure it’s just all good fun right? Who wouldn’t love that as the sound track to their life? Girls who can’t be skinny are often openly and shamelessly judgemental of those who are! Like Mean Girls level!
You’re right it’s not ‘exactly the same’, in many, many ways it’s so much worse. People assume you’re ‘shallow and all about your body weight’, probably starving yourself to achieve that weight. You can see it right in this thread! People projecting their shit onto you isn’t fun for fat chicks or skinny chicks be certain of that. But with skinny chicks ain’t nobody holding back, evetybody is just running their mouth right to your face. Consider that it might just be as unpleasant, or more so, than whispers behind your back or telling glances.
Sorry to hijack, and it’s not a competition, but can we please stop thinking skinny chicks don’t takes heaps of bullshit too! It’s not exactly the same. It’s loud, vocal, right in your face, non stop bullshit. And it’s just as stupid and misguided.
Evolution made women in thousands of different shapes. Just as evolution made men desire women in all their variations. People discussing thigh gaps is beyond ridiculous. Judging people for having, wanting or lacking such a thing borders on complete idiocy.
Anyone who thinks different is invited to piss off!
Whoa ho, there now, RChuck, and I say this with all due respect because I know you are smarter and more observant than the average bear. In fact, that is what is pinging my Bwhaaa?meter. I think the term ,<gag> “thigh gap” <gag> may be relatively new, but you cannot really be saying you have not noticed the universal(by which I mean, the Western hemisphere’s)constant, all encompassing emphasis on women to have thin, fit legs. Sure, back in the day we called them “thunder thighs” or “jello thighs”, but women’s struggle to have “good” bodies in general, and very much thin thighs has been ubiquitous for at least the last 40 years. Hence, Suzanne Sommer’s thigh master and any number of devices that are meant to spot reduce (which is futile, but ladies keep buying them because apparently there’s nothing worse than having thighs that rub together). I am totally willing to believe that you are a true gentleman, and as such do not buy into these kind of judgments yourself, but are you really saying that this is a new concept to you? Not trying to call you out or start a spat, but it just feels . . . not like you.
I take no position. decreeing one particular body characteristic as the ideal is toxic and leads people to harm themselves to try to achieve it.
Oh… Well, if it’s a body thing, then I don’t give a damn. It’s like knobby knees or jug ears or pointy elbows or flat feet. It’s creepy to judge people for physical characteristics. We ain’t all fashion models. Damn few of us are fashion models!
Judging by appearances is vulgar.
Hear hear. Are we going to sit on park benches and whistle at people, and loudly rate them? “There’s a five! Ooh, a four!” Damned vulgar.
(A group of women sitting on a park bench once rated me a “five.” I was smug as sin the whole rest of the day. Five! How cool is that!)
Apparently she struggled with anorexia all her life so that thigh gap came at a high price.
But, she was a knockout in that movie.
They run away from you that fast?
screeching brakes
Sorry but not quite true. Women’s hips-to-shoulder ratio is usually higher than that of men, that is, for a certain shoulder width a woman’s hips are likely to be wider than those of a man of that same shoulder width. But women do not have wider hips than men except in relationship to other size markers such as shoulder width or height; it’s relative, not absolute.
As for the baby birthing part, the shape of the hipbone itself is different. What matters is the size and shape of its central hole, not the size from end to end.
I don’t have a thigh gap, but one would make my trousers last longer… I’ll hereby admit to being envious of women whose thighs don’t rub against each other, on merely practical terms rather than aesthetic ones.
Good thing they didn’t mention they were using a 1-to-10 (or 15!) point scale. 
Back to the OP:
Given the prevalence of modern marketing of thinness-as-good I find the OP’s contention that a large majority of men hate thigh gaps as truly bizarre.
See my post, #34. I believe the OP has pantalones en el fuego.
This is thigh gap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwgw5cBxqI8 <– NSFW
If I am elected, I will do my utmost to eliminate this “thigh gap.” No way will I permit those Godless Commies to have better thighs than our red-bloooded 'Merican girls!
So how many straight men work in fashion and other fields where thinness is promoted? Not too many.
I’m not sure if I’d go so far as to say that I hate thigh gaps, but I certainly hate how thigh gaps are considered a good thing by many. Why would anyone stand in the unnatural pose required to see whether there is a gap in the first place?
Dancers tend to have nice legs that are shapely and not too thin. Is there a gap? I have no idea.
I found it weird when I found out about it, too. It’s about as weird as people talking about seeing your clavicle. You don’t need to look at something like that to determine if someone’s legs or arms or whatever look good.
Plus it’s a whole package thing. I knew a girl in high school with skinny legs but a more rotund figure and pretty broad shoulders. She was constantly made fun of, called “chicken legs.” And, while I hated being that shallow, it did make her less attractive to me.
But if you listened to these thigh gap people, you’d think she was the ideal. Her thigh gap had to have been huge.
I’d love a tread where we women can rattle off our personal specifications of how we want our men, because, they should just live up to our demands for our viewing pleasure.
I’m not one of the guys posting all about my preferences. But nevertheless I think I’d enjoy reading your proposed thread. Post forth.
Agreed. I mean, “tall and fit with a good head of hair” sure wouldn’t surprise me, but the question is: how do women feel about a guy who has a thigh gap?