Bizarre expresssions for female skinniness

Stheno

Came across these terms today, bikini bridge, where hipbone are so prominent that they protrude out of bikini bottoms, and thigh gap, where women do not have their thighs meet

Any other weirdness or is this just a sign of the obsession with weight the media have?

zom

It would be "sign of the obsession with weight" if they took this photos while standing.

Iwasfrozen

Stheno wrote: »

Came across these terms today, bikini bridge, where hipbone are so prominent that they protrude out of bikini bottoms, and thigh gap, where women do not have their thighs meet

Any other weirdness or is this just a sign of the obsession with weight the media have?

I don't think it's fair to say a woman with a bikini bridge or thigh gap is always too skinny.

Lando Griffin

Any pics OP or do I have to imagine these scantly clad women:mad:

Chefrio

Triangular thigh gap is sexy.

Mariasofia

All expressions are bizarre........I aint fat but guys you need a bit to hold onto..........

Mickey H

Mariasofia wrote: »

All expressions are bizarre........I aint fat but guys you need a bit to hold onto..........

PM SENT!!

ted1

I find it very sexy, good indication if a tight box. Especially when there's a toned stomach as oppose to skin over ribs

Evelyn Cusack

so so sexy

ted1

ted1 wrote: »

I find it very sexy, good indication if a tight box. Especially when there's a toned stomach as oppose to skin over ribs

Your understanding of anatomy is astounding.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Like ridin a bag of chisels.

PizzamanIRL

Scrawn-bag.

Sauve

Well aren't ye just lovely

Femme_Fatale

Lots of healthily slim (as opposed to underweight) women have that bikini bridge thing when lying down though. Hell, I've had it at times when lying down, and my stomach has always been my least slim part, even at my overall slimmest.
It's mental that that and the thigh gap (again, just a normal thing when a woman is slim, not even skinny) are revered so much...

Iwasfrozen

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Lots of healthily slim (as opposed to underweight) women have that bikini bridge thing when lying down though. Hell, I've had it at times when lying down, and my stomach has always been my least slim part, even at my overall slimmest.
It's mental that that and the thigh gap (again, just a normal thing when a woman is slim, not even skinny) are revered so much...

I guess with rising obesity levels it's becoming less common. People just don't look after themselves like they used to.

osarusan

ironing boards with arms.

ArrahShure

As thin as a rake,

Lou.m

Men rarely see actual women naked I am convinced. The way they speak of women's bodies is alienlike.

I am a skinny female. But give me an athletic girl any day.

Bodies are individual my thighs don't meet and I have prominent hip bones largely because i have a wide pelvic bone. A very thin girl may never have a thigh gap if her pelvis is quite narrow.

The poster who said bikini ridge is an indication of tight box has never had his penis in a vagina.

You have the body awareness of 13 yr old boys. No wonder men can't find a clitoris.

Stop googling body parts and sleep with more women.

Czarcasm

Lou.m wrote: »

Men rarely see actual women naked I am convinced. The way they speak of women's bodies is alienlike.

I am a skinny female. But give me an athletic girl any day.

Bodies are individual my thighs don't meet and I have prominent hip bones largely because i have a wide pelvic bone. A very thin girl may never have a thigh gap if her pelvis is quite narrow.

The poster who said bikini ridge is an indication of tight box has never had his penis in a vagina.

You have the body awareness of 13 yr old boys. No wonder men can't find a clitoris.

Stop googling body parts and sleep with more women.

I was about to say "Ehh??", but then as I read the rest of your post, you're absolutely bang on about some men. I wouldn't consider their immaturity anything to judge the majority of men by. I've said it before though and I'll say it again - those bizarre expressions like "thigh gap", "bikini bridge", "arse dimples", etc, they're merely internet phenomena among as you say Lou.m immature men (and women!) who have a piss poor grasp of human biology.

Montroseee

Lou.m wrote: »

Men rarely see actual women naked I am convinced. The way they speak of women's bodies is alienlike.

I am a skinny female. But give me an athletic girl any day.

Bodies are individual my thighs don't meet and I have prominent hip bones largely because i have a wide pelvic bone. A very thin girl may never have a thigh gap if her pelvis is quite narrow.

The poster who said bikini ridge is an indication of tight box has never had his penis in a vagina.

You have the body awareness of 13 yr old boys. No wonder men can't find a clitoris.

Stop googling body parts and sleep with more women.

Do you like girls?

Rough Sleeper

Czarcasm wrote: »

I've said it before though and I'll say it again - those bizarre expressions like "thigh gap", "bikini bridge", "arse dimples", etc, they're merely internet phenomena among as you say Lou.m immature men (and women!) who have a piss poor grasp of human biology.

You're going to have to qualify how simply using terms like these is displaying a poor understanding of biology, or anatomy, more accurately. They're physical quirks that some men find attractive. Like tits or arses, just more niche.

I don't know about the first two terms you've listed, but "arse dimples," or back dimples as I'd call them, is a term that has been in use since way before the internet became what it is today. What would you rather people call them, lateral lumbar indentations, or what?

peckerhead

Some women have space between their thighs, just like some men have space between their ears.

Michael D Not Higgins

Rough Sleeper wrote: »

You're going to have to qualify how simply using terms like these is displaying a poor understanding of biology, or anatomy, more accurately. They're physical quirks that some men find attractive. Like tits or arses, just more niche.

I don't know about the first two terms you've listed, but "arse dimples," or back dimples as I'd call them, is a term that has been in use since way before the internet became what it is today. What would you rather people call them, lateral lumbar indentations, or what?

I thought they were the dimples of Venus.

Wibbs

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I don't think it's fair to say a woman with a bikini bridge or thigh gap is always too skinny.

+1 Plenty of slim women would have such a "bikini bridge" laying down. I've known some larger women where it would be present too. Depends on their individual build and where the weight is distributed

Czarcasm wrote:

I've said it before though and I'll say it again - those bizarre expressions like "thigh gap", "bikini bridge", "arse dimples", etc, they're merely internet phenomena

+1000 and rate an "importance" in reality of near zero. For a start how many of the guys commenting have the personal and social wherewithal to make such a choice in the women they go for and end up getting. Few enough.

Lou.m wrote:

The poster who said bikini ridge is an indication of tight box has never had his penis in a vagina.

You have the body awareness of 13 yr old boys. No wonder men can't find a clitoris.

Indeed. Tightness like willy size varies around an average with extremes at each end and can't be reduced to a just by looking at someone formula. God knows why anyone would want to TBH.

Stop googling body parts and sleep with more women.

Cue some blokes googling "how to sleep with more women" and let the games begin.

I had to actually look "Bikini Bridge" up on Google because I had never heard of it before. How odd that there's an actual term for a prominent hip bone.

Wacker The Attacker

Skinny hole\crack\box\gash

super_furry

It's a hoax

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/01/08/the-bikini-bridge-4chans-latest-prank-is-actually-pretty-dangerous/?tid=hpModule_9d3add6c-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e

Chefrio

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I had to actually look "Bikini Bridge" up on Google because I had never heard of it before. How odd that there's an actual term for a prominent hip bone.

Having names for things, how odd. :rolleyes:

Chefrio

Chefrio wrote: »

Having names for things, how odd. :rolleyes:

There is a term for it already... a hip bone. :rolleyes:

Chefrio

[Deleted User] wrote: »

There is a term for it already... a hip bone. :rolleyes:

Ever wonder why a thesaurus exists.

You must think slang is odd too.

Chefrio

Chefrio wrote: »

Ever wonder why a thesaurus exists.

You must think slang is odd too.

Oh good, I love people like you. However, I'm not going to derail this thread any further and bring it into a tit for tat conversation between the two of us. So, have fun all by yourself.

Wurly

Yet another way for the media to bully women and tell them how they should look. Stop buying into it. Get yourself to a healthy, happy weight and then f*ck what society says you should look like!

biko

Image googling...

SuperGrover

Chefrio wrote: »

Triangular thigh gap is sexy.

'Toblerone tunnel'

Miss Lockhart

I don't think there's anything wrong with thin women and these features are completely natural for many women even when not that thin. I hate these trends at promoting any physical feature other than health as ideal though. It's dangerous and it is depressing.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

It's mental that that and the thigh gap (again, just a normal thing when a woman is slim, not even skinny) are revered so much...

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I guess with rising obesity levels it's becoming less common. People just don't look after themselves like they used to.

This reads as though thigh gaps are something you should have when a healthy slim weight, instead of something you may have when a healthy slim weight depending on many factors. I've been hearing as much from teens (both sexes) in school recently. It's just not true and it's horrible to see slim and fit young girls on this pointless and largely unachievable quest

Miss Behaviour

Oooh this stuff drives me bonkers!

It's not just online either! Myself and a group of my friends went on holiday to Sardinia last summer. Two of the guys were obsessed with this 'gap'. I happen to have a gap between my thighs, never considered it anything other than just how my body looks. The two guys kept droning on about it and how they loved it. To the point where it was beyond creepy! One of them even asked could he take a photo of it to upload tk some facebook group he follows. Ehhhhh... no thanks :eek:

The two guys spent the whole time on the beach rating women's gaps as they went by... morons. Needless to say, they were the only ones who didn't score on the whole holiday!

Femme_Fatale

Wouldn't swap my double Ds and round arse for any of these bizarre internet fetishes!

Michael D Not Higgins

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Wouldn't swap my double Ds and round arse for any of these bizarre internet fetishes!

Good on you

Miss Lockhart

I have to agree that in my experience it is not justsconfined to the media or internet. Thigh gap obsession is something I have encountered in reality quite a bit over the past year or so and men have undoubtedly been the ones talking endlessly about it.

AndonHandon

No gap, no fap.

Daqster

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I don't think it's fair to say a woman with a bikini bridge or thigh gap is always too skinny.

Indeed.

Wurly wrote: »

Yet another way for the media to bully women and tell them how they should look.

Sure, but women are by no means alone when in comes to bullying based on appearance.

A quick Google of the word 'portly' on the Daily Mail site throws up the following examples of them having a go at men for apparently daring to exhale: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

I was reading woman's magazine the other day, as you do, and at first I had no clue what they were talking about but it turned out to be those two diagonal lines guys can have when toned and fit, that run down into the groin area from the abdomen. Well, they had some name for it which I can't recall. Seems women have names for parts of men's bodies that many of us don't even know about.

Seriously though, I genuinely think talk of pecs, height, six packs, V shaped torsos, chiseled features, muscular arms, footballer's thighs, broad shoulders etc etc, all put a similar amount of pressure on guys to look a certain way and it effects them in much the same way as all the female bodily ideals hurled at women by the media, effect them. Women just vocalize the inadequacies they feel as a result of all that crap much more I think.

ted1

I read some where that Its actual gay men that have changed the body shop of desirable women.

As gay men run the fashion industry they designed clothes that fit 12 year old boys build and selected models with the build of young boys. E.g your one Cara something that has the body of a young beiber.

With regards the thigh gap. Its being in the porn industry for years and its most used for displaying bits from the rear and entry from behind.

Femme_Fatale

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Thigh gap obsession is something I have encountered in reality quite a bit over the past year or so and men have undoubtedly been the ones talking endlessly about it.

I wish women would just ignore it though, instead of pandering to it.

Too much of this obsessive body analysis is done by women themselves. And I'm not talking about being concerned about too much excess weight/obesity - that's a health matter. I may love my curves but I don't want to be overweight either. Encouraging healthy eating, exercise and getting down to a healthy weight is a positive thing - and a million miles off urging women to achieve a thigh gap even if their build won't accommodate it.

Just as bad though is the "Real women" crap in relation to obesity. There's nothing wrong with telling a woman who's flabby, chubby, depressed about not being thin etc she should be happy with herself. But celebrating/being complacent about obesity is just damaging.

Mike747

Bikini bridges are hot. Lots of jealous fatties in this thread...

Femme_Fatale

ted1 wrote: »

With regards the thigh gap. Its being in the porn industry for years and its most used for displaying bits from the rear and entry from behind.

Sigh. May as well be talking about prime cuts of meat in a butcher's window...

ted1

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Sigh. May as well be talking about prime cuts of meat in a butcher's window...

Just the messenger

Miss Lockhart

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I wish women would just ignore it though, instead of pandering to it.

Too much of this obsessive body analysis is done by women themselves. And I'm not talking about being concerned about too much excess weight/obesity - that's a health matter. I may love my curves but I don't want to be overweight either. Encouraging healthy eating, exercise and getting down to a healthy weight is a positive thing - and a million miles off urging women to achieve a thigh gap even if their build won't accommodate it.

Just as bad though is the "Real women" crap in relation to obesity. There's nothing wrong with telling a woman who's flabby, chubby, depressed about not being thin etc she should be happy with herself. But celebrating/being complacent about obesity is just damaging.

I agree but that's another thread. The only real life women I know who are trying to get a thigh gap are very insecure and under 20 and one adult woman with long term body image and eating disorder issues - it's just the latest fad in a long line she feels she must achieve.

For the past year I have heard men talking about thigh gaps. Just in the last 3 months or so it seems to have become an aspiration among a good few of the teen girls I know

Pat Mustard

Thigh gap eh? Wasn't there in my day.

Which was about four years ago.

Wibbs

Daqster wrote: »

Indeed.



Sure, but women are by no means alone when in comes to bullying based on appearance.

A quick Google of the word 'portly' on the Daily Mail site throws up the following examples of them having a go at men for apparently daring to exhale: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

It would be my take that that stuff is aimed again at women, rather than men. The celeb fixation is much more aimed at the female market. Same guff aimed at women ends up being aimed at men too. It seems in our culture women are made to be/are more body conscious regardless of the gender. At a distance though. In day to day realities of the dating and mating milieu it would be my humble that women tend to less judgmental of the male physique. As a very general thing of course.

Seriously though, I genuinely think talk of pecs, height, six packs, V shaped torsos, chiseled features, muscular arms, footballer's thighs, broad shoulders etc etc, all put a similar amount of pressure on guys to look a certain way and it effects them in much the same way as all the female bodily ideals hurled at women by the media, effect them. Women just vocalize the inadequacies they feel as a result of all that crap much more I think.

While the pressure may be there, it's there at a much lower level among men, if the gender ratio of eating disorders is anything to go by. If you took a room of a hundred men and a hundred women, I'll bet the farm that very much more women are on current diets and over a lifetime there would be few who would have never dieted. The male percentage would be much lower. In body dysmorphic disorder the gender ratio is about equal, though men worry about different things like baldness and willie size.

Wibbs

The Mustard wrote: »

Thigh gap eh? Wasn't there in my day.

Which was about four years ago.

Well I do remember the toblerone slot/gap back in the 1980's so...

Pat Mustard

Wibbs wrote: »

Well I do remember the toblerone slot/gap back in the 1980's so...

Ah. Never heard of all this thigh gap carry-on 'til about a year ago. I'm beginning to think that I'm one of the slow learners now. Ah well.