ToeSucker said:
the reason i started this poll, i becuase i was wondering who perpetuated the hollywood myth that all women must weight less than 90bs. i'm pretty sure it wasn't a man. in my opinion women are doing it to themselves, by and large most men prefer a woman who is soft and curvaceous, not one that you could count her ribs from across the room
I completely agree with that. Do not discount the bombardment of media.
I can only give a quick explanation as a similar case: It is the same for men now too. Look at ads in men's magazines (I mean fashion, parfum, clothes ads, not stuff for teenagers) - the men there are all also very thin, with the ever present "six pack". There is usually some definition (there HAS to be definition at6-8% body fat, even just veins and tendons!), but absolutely no suggestion of power or healthy, strong masculinity. These ads come from a industry (anything to do with fashion) largely populated by the type of men that have no interest in a site like ours because it contains women. They place the type of male models, over timing, maybe, influencing cultural preferences. These skinny, but slightly defined types are call "twinks" in "their" sphere. Well, these "twinks" are now also coverboys for Men's Health magazine (at least in Italy - I I have never read it, but can't resist an eyeroll of condesention when I see it), on the screen (Pitt, Damon....but not Crowe

) and if I see another teenage boy trying to get girls with a 6 pack and nothing else, I may just grab him by his belt and hammer curl him right handed....
So, the point - the fashion for men to be lean to the point of skinny, to be non-threatening (non-masculine?) is equal in my mind to the push for women to be even skinnier and also in a way less feminine. It seems to be a androgeneozation (

).
Give me a women with softness, hips, a waist, and womenly curves any day! And she gets me, in my testosterone dripping from every pore self, in return.... :lovecoupl