You guys can thank me later.
Posted on 08/04/2010 1:42:47 PM PDT by Christian Cage
All American women want to wear a tiara, but those old standards of beauty don’t work for very many of them any longer. In fact, far fewer American women could be objectively called beautiful than a mere 30 years ago, when the fat epidemic had just begun.
Enter the “Miss Plus America” pageant, a competition specifically for “plus” women. Now, American women can eat their way to the championship, scarfing down potato chips and chugging soda pop to put them in the running for beauty queen.
I’m kind of curious as to why “plus” is the term employed. Is it supposed to suggest that it’s somehow desirable, as in “that’s a plus?” Maybe it simply sounds better than “Miss Fat America,” but euphemisms have a way of becoming terms of ridicule, so it will probably backfire soon enough.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with curvy women, naturally big women, etc. But it’s obvious that these women have a great deal of body fat, and are technically obese. Obesity isn’t beautiful, and it isn’t healthy. Our aim should be to eradicate – not celebrate – obesity. However, it seems that these women’s desire to be celebrated matters more than a national crisis that is seeing children develop type II diabetes, and adults die prematurely from weight-related diseases.
(Excerpt) Read more at the-spearhead.com ...
As for the male perspective of female “beauty”; the one constant through the ages appears to be the waist-to-hip ratio. And, even that ratio varies by culture (lower in Asia, higher in Latin America).
I just don't get the celebration of fat these days. Are that many people giving up on being healthy?
Ah well. After obama finishes destroying the economy people will slim down again. These folk may outlive us all. They have far more "fat of the land" to live off of.
You guys can thank me later.
But Miss Purple Gown needs to go on "Biggest Loser". Seriously ... I see lots of cardiovascular problems, pulmonary problems, and diabetes in her future.
Freeper guys often say ‘we like curves’, but we didn’t mean the minkowski curvature of space and time caused by those four ladies standing within five feet of each other.
The homosexuals and feminists have tried to make it seem otherwise.
And would she be interested in acquiring British citizenship?
Christina Hendricks from Mad Men.
Tyat’s what I’m talking about. Women with *ample* features.
How about a “Who’s Ass Looks Most Like a Wet Bag of Popcorn” contest?
That’s my accountant
She looks alot like the Gal who Played Mrs. Reynolds in the Firefly Episode: "Our Mrs. Reynolds"
I agree. There’s gotta be a happy medium here.
Or hit in the backside with a bag of nickles?
Thank you RODNEY CARRINGTON.
Thanks for the info!
And also, yes, thanks for inoculating the thread with 20cc of Babe.
I count 11 toes in that photo...
Obesity isn’t beautiful, and it isn’t healthy. Our aim should be to eradicate – not celebrate – obesity...
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