What Men Want: Barbie doll or fertile goddess?
15 June 2009 5 Comments
Here’s a very interesting article, So do men REALLY prefer miss average, from the Daily Mail about a study of college males in Australia who are apparently more attracted to an average female figure than a stick-thin supermodel. “According to this week’s New Scientist, 100 men taking part in an Australian study were asked to rate the attractiveness of 200 drawings of female torsos of different sizes.” The results suggest a [British] size 14 — “5ft 4in tall, a size 14 with a waist that hovers around 30in, rounded hips and a 36DD bust” — is the most desirable.
The article also includes commentary from an assenting woman and dissenting man. From Anne Shooter: “The only people ever to have made unpleasant comments about my size are other women . . . Thin women are skinny for other women – not for men.” Tom Sykes counters by suggesting that while men might want to settle down with the average woman, the girls they fantasize about look more like Pamela Anderson.
It’s a good read. I won’t elaborate, except to reiterate what I’ve said in previous posts on the topic by saying that 1) “healthy” is the best figure and 2) I’ve never been attracted to supermodels.
Image from Post Secret.
Adding: Another post on beauty and the female form recently past 5,000 views, the most of any among The Aesthetic Elevator’s repertoire: Beauty: Female aesthetics through the years
Women do a lot of things to impress other women. Men don’t care about hairstyles, cool shoes, or interesting handbags.
Shoes and handbags, no. Hairstyles, a little more. But point taken.
I always held that the super-model skin-and-bones look was not very attractive, it just looks unhealthy. One other thing of interest was an article I found which spoke of how modeling women often look like young boys, this because the major fashion industries are managed by homosexuals. It had an interesting point, I will try to find it…
I couldn’t find the original article I was speaking of, so here are a couple different ones I found:
Here is a blog post by a fashion model (read: has questionable pictures) raving in a typical worldly-and-disturbing manner about how awesome androgyny is:
http://fieldsoffashion.blogspot.com/2009/03/lady-looks-like-dude.html
If you have doubts about the female-who-looks-like-a-dude thing in fashion, just glance through some of these professional models here (may be nsfw, high fashion tends that direction and I didn’t look through much of it):
http://www.managementartists.com/#portfolio=&artist=
Ha! Love that posts’ title: “Lady looks like dude.”
The boyish figure has been in vogue for women since the 1980s according to this timeline.