The new mark of beauty - The Thigh Gap

[crazy canuck]

I have never heard of this abomination before.  How is a woman to have a good body if she has a thigh gap?  I have always thought it was quite unattractive.  But apparently the gay designers who want women to look more and more like boys are winning.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/are-we-taking-body-obsession-too-far-with-thigh-gap-scrutiny/article8289000/

[Josephus]

I had to google image that.

[Valmy]

Chicken legs are sexy now?    What will the anorexia mafia think of next?

[Admiral Yi]

It was conventional wisdom among my middle school and early high school peer group that a nice gap, as we referred to it, was a noteworthy component of female attractiveness.

Chicks that have their legs so far apart they look the Attack of the Droids are grody, but then again so are women with pudgy thighs that always chafe together.

[Jacob]

Don't blame the gays for that - the thigh gap has been a thing in modern Japanese/ Chinese beauty ideals for a while.

[Admiral Yi]

Don't blame the gays for that - the thigh gap has been a thing in modern Japanese/ Chinese beauty ideals for a while.

So lucky for all those bowlegged Japanese women.

[MadImmortalMan]

I like it. You don't have to be uber-skinny to have one either.

[Ideologue]

Yet again, the world is doing its best to catch up with me, and hardly succeeding.  Does a fish have a word for water?  A bird for the thermal current upon which he rises?  So I, and this concept of "thigh gap."

[Valmy]

It was conventional wisdom among my middle school and early high school peer group that a nice gap, as we referred to it, was a noteworthy component of female attractiveness.

Wow go figure

But granted my tastes are not really the mainstream when it comes to the super skinny types.

[derspiess]

Chicks that have their legs so far apart they look the Attack of the Droids are grody, but then again so are women with pudgy thighs that always chafe together.

Yep.

[Eddie Teach]

But apparently the gay designers who want women to look more and more like boys are winning.

Better they look like boys than like men. Thick legs are masculine.

[Valmy]

Better they look like boys than like men. Thick legs are masculine.

So if they have skinny legs they are masculine and if they have thick legs they are masculine?  What is feminine?  No legs at all? 

Anyway that is silly, women have hips and thighs that look nothing like a man's body.

[FunkMonk]

Yet again, the world is doing its best to catch up with me, and hardly succeeding.  Does a fish have a word for water?  A bird for the thermal current upon which he rises?  So I, and this concept of "thigh gap."

[Eddie Teach]

So if they have skinny legs they are masculine

No. Thickly muscled legs are masculine.

[MadImmortalMan]

women have hips and thighs that look nothing like a man's body.

Exactly. Having hips is what creates the gap. If the hips are too narrow the legs would be too close together like a man. Then, no gap.

Or something like that.