Friday, May 3

Is this the reason why women are encouraged to be skinny?

Asked by Cough at 03 May,2013
Is it because women are suppose to be small and petite? So they are encouraged to have a less significant body by losing weight? If that's the case, I don't understand why men can't just be attracted to thin air. Candy said it. What Caucasian American men prefer.

Best Answer:
mister-damus at 03 May,2013
No. Women are encouraged to be slim for health reasons. Women are encouraged to be anorexic by advertisers (not by men). My momma told me never to believe everything you see on TV or read in the paper/magazines. For some reason women never learned this lesson. Now you try to blame men. Don't blame men because you fall for dumb advertising propaganda. Let it go already. Why do you hate slim women? Why can't we just be attracted to hippos and cows? (using your logic)

Other Answers:
  1. Huh? Put the sandwich down and try to write a question that makes sense!
  2. Most women are naturallly fat, men want the opposite. Most women have wide hips and small breasts, men want women with gigantic breasts and no hips. You want what you can't have.
  3. Well first of all, having sex with thin air is rather difficult for the average male. But with all seriousness, men don't find extremely skinny, bony women atractive. Some women have bodytypes that look more attractive in bigger dimensions, whilst others are better looking when skinny. Again, skinny is a relative term. Women are very insecure and almost all females overexagerate. No one is forcing women to be skinny, they have forced that onto themselves for generations.
  4. because some women have their own rules.. Being skinny made them feel more attractive and beautiful.
  5. It's because the media (Kardashians, and social networks) show pictures of "perfect" girls when in real life they're fake as hell
  6. I'm not totally sure, but that one does seem like it's possible, that women are "supposed" to be the smaller, lesser sex.
    But I think models have to be thin because smaller clothing means less money that the fashion industry has to spend making the clothes. I've heard the designs also look the most appealing when they're very small (not sure if they're designed to look better smaller or if this is just something that happens) so that more people will want to buy them, only to find out that they're probably too small for anyone but a model to wear.

    And of course one of the biggest reasons is so the myriad diet companies and weight-loss programs can make money off of womens' bodies by trying to push people into buying their products.

    The biggest reason is money, plain and simple.
  7. Men = Have bigger bone structures, more muscle, harder to gain weight easier to lose
    Women = Have small bone structures, less muscle, harder for them to gain muscle, easier to gain weight

    Magazines want men to be perfect and muscular and they also want women to be perfect and skinny. They tell you that you are not successful if you don't live in a big house with a pool and a mercedes benz.

    All standards set by society/magazines to sell stuff. Once people start believing it attraction becomes different. In poor countries fat women are considered hot because it means that they have enough to eat/symbol of wealth.
  8. No. Women are encouraged to be slim for health reasons. Women are encouraged to be anorexic by advertisers (not by men).

    My momma told me never to believe everything you see on TV or read in the paper/magazines. For some reason women never learned this lesson. Now you try to blame men.

    Don't blame men because you fall for dumb advertising propaganda.

    Let it go already. Why do you hate slim women?

    Why can't we just be attracted to hippos and cows? (using your logic)