I was in Europe not too long ago…and spent too much time at museums.
Have you ever noticed that when all of these master painters (Da Vinci, Monet, Manet, etc), and even the not so famous guys were painting women…they were all painting chubby gals?
And how can I mention paintings of naked fat chicks, without mentioning Botticelli?
Definitely the style of the culture was different back then, and plumpness had an indication of being “middle class” or part of the aristocracy (as the poor people back in those days didn’t have enough to eat to be plump, but that story is for some political history blog).
Things have gotten so far out of whack these days. Just think 40 or 50 years ago Marilyn Monroe was the hottest, sexiest thing on this earth…today would be too curvy to be a model. People magazine (or one like it) would probably feature her on cover with unflattering photos of her butt in her swimsuit. Playboy seems to have kept the curvy standard (although often it is surgically enhanced)…but the rest of the media has really moved on.
The sexiness of a curvy woman, really gets down to her womanliness. Breasts and hips and that hourglass shape (even if the sand in the hour glass has shifted to the bottom), are physical qualities that are so innately femine and sexy, yet to look truly femine like that is to be “out of style”.
Seriously, does anyone think that Nicole Ritchie (all 85 pounds of her) has a sexy body? Really? Now she has never claimed to be role model, and she shouldn’t be…yet there is enough media coverage of her (and others) that it makes them role models by default. And how does this make women feel about their bodies? As a guy, I have heard it a lot….and the conversation that starts “do these jeans make my butt look big?” simply can not go anywhere good.
Love your big butt. We, as men do. Actually, I think that other women do….at least in my non-scientific survey of the one lesbian that I know well enough to have this discussion….she has a thing for Marilyn Monroe too. Ok, far from a meaningful survey…feel free to chime in!
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