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/
I had to google image that.
Chicken legs are sexy now? :lol: What will the anorexia mafia think of next?
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.
Don't blame the gays for that - the thigh gap has been a thing in modern Japanese/ Chinese beauty ideals for a while.
Quote from: Jacob on February 06, 2013, 03:48:23 PM
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.
I like it. You don't have to be uber-skinny to have one either.
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."
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2013, 03:48:17 PM
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 :hmm:
But granted my tastes are not really the mainstream when it comes to the super skinny types.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2013, 03:48:17 PM
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.
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 06, 2013, 03:39:48 PM
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.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 06, 2013, 04:00:30 PM
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? :lol:
Anyway that is silly, women have hips and thighs that look nothing like a man's body.
Quote from: Ideologue on February 06, 2013, 03:53:16 PM
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."
:lmfao:
Quote from: Valmy on February 06, 2013, 04:02:10 PM
So if they have skinny legs they are masculine
No. Thickly muscled legs are masculine.
Quote from: Valmy on February 06, 2013, 04:02:10 PM
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. :P
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 06, 2013, 04:12:52 PM
No. Thickly muscled legs are masculine.
I think when women do not have the gap being 'thickly muscled' is not the implication the skinny mafia usually makes. But I guess that was what the article was hinting about Beyonce, she is too buff for the gap.
It's genetic, really. I mean, a girl could starve herself into having a gap... maybe, but realistically, it has more to do with genetics, just like where one carries her fat and whether she has big boobs or not.
For some guys, that's attractive, just like for some guys small breasts are attractive. It's not a "new" thing, nor is it a big thing. It's just a preference.
Quote from: merithyn on February 06, 2013, 04:33:41 PM
It's genetic, really. I mean, a girl could starve herself into having a gap... maybe, but realistically, it has more to do with genetics, just like where one carries her fat and whether she has big boobs or not.
It also has a lot to do with hip size and hip socket placement.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2013, 04:35:27 PM
Quote from: merithyn on February 06, 2013, 04:33:41 PM
It's genetic, really. I mean, a girl could starve herself into having a gap... maybe, but realistically, it has more to do with genetics, just like where one carries her fat and whether she has big boobs or not.
It also has a lot to do with hip size and hip socket placement.
Which is genetic.
The Daily Fail article this references is crap (what did I expect, I know). It presents the issue as a bipolar choice between fat and anorexic. That's silly. I'm certain most people prefer something in between.
Me and Ide are going to form the itty bitty titty committee. Meetings to be held at the jr high gym.
Quote from: merithyn on February 06, 2013, 04:48:31 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2013, 04:35:27 PM
Quote from: merithyn on February 06, 2013, 04:33:41 PM
It's genetic, really. I mean, a girl could starve herself into having a gap... maybe, but realistically, it has more to do with genetics, just like where one carries her fat and whether she has big boobs or not.
It also has a lot to do with hip size and hip socket placement.
Which is genetic.
The phenomenon the article is talking about is not genetic but women trying to make the gap bigger on the theory that the bigger the gap the better. I have no problem with a healthy woman having some kind of spaces here and there. Good nice curves will do that. But what is described in the article is :x
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 06, 2013, 04:57:34 PM
Me and Ide are going to form the itty bitty titty committee. Meetings to be held at the jr high gym.
You guys really ought to go to anorexia anonymous meetings to pick up chicks. :P
Quote from: Malthus on February 06, 2013, 05:09:12 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 06, 2013, 04:57:34 PM
Me and Ide are going to form the itty bitty titty committee. Meetings to be held at the jr high gym.
You guys really ought to go to anorexia anonymous meetings to pick up chicks. :P
I'd rather drive by the jr high.
Quote from: Malthus on February 06, 2013, 05:09:12 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 06, 2013, 04:57:34 PM
Me and Ide are going to form the itty bitty titty committee. Meetings to be held at the jr high gym.
You guys really ought to go to anorexia anonymous meetings to pick up chicks. :P
Tried that, but nobody believed I was anorexic. :(
Quote from: Josephus on February 06, 2013, 03:43:52 PM
I had to google image that.
Yeah, me too. Not one of the better googles I've done, first hit is to a tumblr collection of anorexic chicks in hipster gear.
That beaner chick in Boardwalk Empire had a pretty signficant gap IIRC. As well as a hearty bush.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 06, 2013, 05:14:27 PM
Tried that, but nobody believed I was anorexic. :(
Tell them you are just a beginner, learning the ropes as it were.
Quote from: Malthus on February 06, 2013, 05:25:46 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 06, 2013, 05:14:27 PM
Tried that, but nobody believed I was anorexic. :(
Tell them you are just a beginner, learning the ropes as it were.
:lol:
So this is what that subliminal message on the underground circle line was about. :bowler:
Thigh Gap, The gap, gapping......
Old news. You guys need to get out more.
It's not the thigh gap that matters, it's the willingness to temporarily increase it.
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 06, 2013, 04:57:34 PM
Me and Ide are going to form the itty bitty titty committee. Meetings to be held at the jr high gym.
Comite de Salut Petits. :frog:
Quote from: Ideologue on February 06, 2013, 07:44:33 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 06, 2013, 04:57:34 PM
Me and Ide are going to form the itty bitty titty committee. Meetings to be held at the jr high gym.
Comite de Salut Petits. :frog:
You'd like Paris Ide. Petite chicks in boots.
Do they have cool haircuts?
I WASN'T LOOKING AT THEIR HAIR.
Different strokes, old friend.
:lol:
Seriously, a lot of short to medium length hair.
My God I can see it.
Quote from: LiepYeah, me too. Not one of the better googles I've done, first hit is to a tumblr collection of anorexic chicks in hipster gear.
I googled it. Hot, right?
Why do people get all butthurt over what others find attractive, anyway? It's not like the question "who's hotter" has a correct answer. It's subjective preference.
Quote from: Valmy on February 06, 2013, 04:23:53 PM
But I guess that was what the article was hinting about Beyonce, she is too buff for the gap.
If these people are saying that Beyonce's thighs are too much, then count me out of this party.
Then again, I've seen what they're talking about; yeah, the thigh gap was hot back in the day as well, at Auschwitz.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on February 06, 2013, 09:05:08 PM
Why do people get all butthurt over what others find attractive, anyway? It's not like the question "who's hotter" has a correct answer. It's subjective preference.
We get butthurt when the forces of fashion of hipness are arrayed against what we consider attractive. Social pressure making women uggo is a travesty.
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 06, 2013, 03:39:48 PM
But apparently the gay designers who want women to look more and more like boys are winning.
It's not that they want women to look like boys: they want them to look like wire hangers for their wares. Sickly thin models drape and show cloth better than buxomy, curvy fuck-me-I-can-take-the-punishment Kate Winslet types. The fact that they wind up looking like pubescent boys during a growth spurt is a coinkydink that benefits the industry.
And yet it was Beyonce on the stage at halftime, not Fiona Apple or Kristen Bell.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on February 06, 2013, 09:16:35 PM
And yet it was Beyonce on the stage at halftime, not Fiona Apple or Kristen Bell.
Case: rested.
Quote from: Ideologue on February 06, 2013, 09:00:25 PM
My God I can see it.
Another thing, thier Milf's hold up better than ours.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 06, 2013, 09:17:22 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on February 06, 2013, 09:16:35 PM
And yet it was Beyonce on the stage at halftime, not Fiona Apple or Kristen Bell.
Case: rested.
Can you imagine if they had Fiona up there? That'd be a downer. :D
Anyway we had granny panties Madonna up there recently.
:lol: Talk about Ray Lewis really crying.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 06, 2013, 09:07:10 PM
If these people are saying that Beyonce's thighs are too much, then count me out of this party.
It's funny, because I just had a discussion with my wife while watching the halftime show about how her thighs were too much for my tastes.
What does it matter? America has the most beautiful women anyway.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on February 06, 2013, 09:05:08 PM
Why do people get all butthurt over what others find attractive, anyway? It's not like the question "who's hotter" has a correct answer. It's subjective preference.
:yes:
Problems come up when girls get it in their head that there is only one kind of attractive... and starve themselves to get there. So long as everyone recognizes that there are all kinds of beautiful - and those who appreciate them - then it's all good.
Kristen Bell? She's not up there because she's had fuck-all of a music career. Might just as well let William Shatner do it.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2013, 03:48:17 PM
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.
The wisdom of Yi. :nods:
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on February 06, 2013, 09:05:08 PM
Why do people get all butthurt over what others find attractive, anyway? It's not like the question "who's hotter" has a correct answer. It's subjective preference.
Why do you get all butthurt over a thread about women dieting to increase the gap between their thighs? Do you want women to look like boys?
I'm glad I live over here, where the thigh gaps are plentiful.
Quote from: Valmy on February 06, 2013, 04:02:10 PM
What is feminine? No legs at all? :lol:
Which reminds me of the old joke. Why do women have legs? Well, you've seen the mess snails leave.
Men like thigh gaps because they can still see the football when their girlfriend is stood in front of the TV telling them to take the rubbish out.
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on February 07, 2013, 06:14:53 AM
I'm glad I live over here, where the thigh gaps are plentiful.
Naturally so...
Remember the complaint isnt that women shouldnt be fit, it is that they shouldnt be stick creatures who diet to turn their legs into twigs.
Quote from: merithyn on February 06, 2013, 11:32:25 PM
Why do:yes:
Problems come up when girls get it in their head that there is only one kind of attractive... and starve themselves to get there. So long as everyone recognizes that there are all kinds of beautiful - and those who appreciate them - then it's all good.
the latter part of your post is inconsistent with the former. there are all kinds of beauty, indeed, and those who wish to maintain healthy lifestyles are considered incredibly beautiful in today's modern society. that you think they are ... "starving themselves" is your own projection, and seems dishonest. while there are few who prefer the incredibly starved (ide and myself, as far as i can tell, may be an exception), dismissing those who are skinny because they both exercise and eat healthily seems rather spiteful
Quote from: LaCroix on February 07, 2013, 06:27:27 AM
the latter part of your post is inconsistent with the former. there are all kinds of beauty, indeed, and those who wish to maintain healthy lifestyles are considered incredibly beautiful in today's modern society. that you think they are ... "starving themselves" is your own projection, and seems dishonest. while there are few who prefer the incredibly starved (ide and myself, as far as i can tell, may be an exception), dismissing those who are skinny because they both exercise and eat healthily seems rather spiteful
Talk about projecting. :rolleyes:
The article posted spoke of girls starving themselves to get said gap. It wasn't about them getting healthy to have a gap. No, it was about them
starving themselves. That's an issue for anyone, regardless of who they are or why they're doing it.
Perhaps you should read all of my posts before you decide that I'm "spiteful" or projecting, dimwit.
Back in the kitchen sugartits!
Quote from: merithyn on February 07, 2013, 09:43:08 AM
Perhaps you should read all of my posts before you decide that I'm "spiteful" or projecting, dimwit.
LaCroix doesn't like reading - he just likes to vent his opinions.
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 07, 2013, 09:45:26 AM
Back in the kitchen sugartits!
Why? Did you make me a sammich? :mmm:
Quote from: merithyn on February 07, 2013, 09:53:11 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 07, 2013, 09:45:26 AM
Back in the kitchen sugartits!
Why? Did you make me a sammich? :mmm:
You'll get American cheese smothered in 6 month old miracle whip and like it.
Quote from: merithyn on February 07, 2013, 09:43:08 AMTalk about projecting. :rolleyes:
The article posted spoke of girls starving themselves to get said gap. It wasn't about them getting healthy to have a gap. No, it was about them starving themselves. That's an issue for anyone, regardless of who they are or why they're doing it.
Perhaps you should read all of my posts before you decide that I'm "spiteful" or projecting, dimwit.
but i'm not projecting..
the article in question quotes, which i assume you refer to as "starving themselves" (though i only skimmed it, as is languish tradition, you realize)
Quote"Websites promoting the desired thigh gap show thousands of images dedicated to the achievement of losing weight until they have a space between their thighs,"
for your own sake, i even control + f'd "starving" ... i did not find anything. i assume you mean this quote? this is not, as you say, girls starving themselves. this was an assumption on your part, that they are ... "starving" themselves to reach this point. in reality, it means they are losing weight until they reach this point.
you are not, unless i have missed an incredible revelation, a physician who has studied these girls and made a professional opinion that they are, indeed, literally starving their bodies - which, as i'm sure you know quite well enough, is subjective enough that such generalizing statements might be baseless. right?
Quote from: merithyn on February 07, 2013, 09:43:08 AM
Perhaps you should read all of my posts before you decide that I'm "spiteful" or projecting, dimwit.
I don't think you are, but a whole lot of women who say similar things definitely are.
Quote from: derspiess on February 07, 2013, 09:56:04 AM
Quote from: merithyn on February 07, 2013, 09:43:08 AM
Perhaps you should read all of my posts before you decide that I'm "spiteful" or projecting, dimwit.
I don't think you are, but a whole lot of women who say similar things definitely are.
Say what? That there are a variety of different ways to be beautiful? Or that it's a genetic thing? Or that as a genetic thing, the only way that some women can get a thigh gap is by starving themselves, which isn't healthy?
I'm struggling to see where I said anything off base at all. Basically, I've said that there's nothing wrong with guys who find this attractive. That there are a lot of beautiful women, some of whom have a thigh gap. And that those who are trying to get a thigh gap and aren't genetically predisposed to having one shouldn't starve themselves to try to make it happen.
Which part is problematic?
Edit: Oh, was it the part where I said that there's a problem when women perceive only one kind of beauty and don't see the beauty in themselves? I understand that a lot of people (re: men) don't like it when women say that, so I'm guessing that's the part that's the problem.
IMO, unless you're Asian and thus you're just built that way genetically, thigh gap is quite unattractive.
Quote from: merithyn on February 07, 2013, 10:02:48 AM
I'm struggling to see where I said anything off base at all. Basically, I've said that there's nothing wrong with guys who find this attractive. That there are a lot of beautiful women, some of whom have a thigh gap. And that those who are trying to get a thigh gap and aren't genetically predisposed to having one shouldn't starve themselves to try to make it happen.
Relax, sweetcheeks. I wasn't busting on you. I'm just saying a lot of *similar*-sounding statements by women are just thinly-veiled jealous rants meant to take down skinny/pretty chicks.
I myself can appreciate a nice-looking fuller figured woman. If they can wear the weight well, some women actually look better that way. But frankly in these days where obesity is such a rampant health problem, I have no problem with women starving themselves to look thin (as long as it's not the Auschwitz-type look). If you're going to err on one side, I say go the skinny route.
I had to google the term, like everyone else. Some of the picture were really hot but I'm not into crazy skinny chick.