Bizarre expresssions for female skinniness

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.

Wibbs wrote: »

It would be my take that that stuff is aimed again at women, rather than men.

Do more woman buy red tops than men. I'm not so sure. Granted, the OK mag type maybe, but by and large, men are bombard with just as much of that stuff as women, in my view at least.

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.

I couldn't disagree with you more. A quick read of the turn ons and turn offs thread shows that women are just as likely to be turned off by men's physical appearance, as men are about women's and the 'Would you date a guy that was 5ft8"' left lads in no doubt that height is without question a huge deal for most woman.

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.

I don't think that is anything to go by though, at least not to any great degree. That would be a bit like saying there aren't as many male prostitutes as female, because woman don't enjoy sex as much as men.

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.

Some of that is true, but the diet stuff is a red herring, as 'over a lifetime' would be including a time when I wouldn't argue that there was undoubtedly more pressure on woman to look a certain way, compared to today, where as I say, I feel it is pretty much an even split.

Again though, you are just unlikely to hear men vocalize this kind of thing as it is, in the main, deemed as something which females do and *most* guys will run a million miles away form doing something which is seen by society as being not very 'manly', which of course is idiotic but honestly can't think of one of my mates that would bring up being on a diet in a public setting the way women would have no problem doing. Hopefully that will change but I highly doubt it. I think guys would be less embarrassed to be seen reading Playboy on the train than a 'What's The Best Diet To Lose That Excess Belly Fat' copy of Men's Health.

I know I was, even pinned Miss December up on the window and had a quick fap so I did. The Men's Health remained tucked away in a brown paper bag under the seat though. You can't be too careful.