[Darnright]

"just why is it that We guys prefer: full bosom, tiny waist, long legs on a woman. Who ordained, who prescribed that this should be so? "

It sure wasn't this guy...

[elcid1970]

I assume that the portrait refers to the promoter of the full-figured "Rubensesque" woman. But she had one thing so many woman of today totally lack:

A NATURAL WAISTLINE!

I refer you instead to the "Renoiresque" woman of full bosom, tiny waist, and voluptuous hips. Equally as fit for the rigors of childbirth and childrearing.

And truly the mother of builders of empires.

[LongElegantLegs]

I love Rubens...and his courageous documentation of the 17th century Plague of Crotch-Hankies. ;-).