The new mark of beauty - The Thigh Gap

[garbon]

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.

[merithyn]

Back in the kitchen sugartits!

Why? Did you make me a sammich?

[Ed Anger]

Back in the kitchen sugartits!

Why? Did you make me a sammich?

You'll get American cheese smothered in 6 month old miracle whip and like it.

[LaCroix]

Talk about projecting. 

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)

"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?

[derspiess]

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.

[merithyn]

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.

[DGuller]

IMO, unless you're Asian and thus you're just built that way genetically, thigh gap is quite unattractive.

[derspiess]

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.

[Grey Fox]

I had to google the term, like everyone else. Some of the picture were really hot but I'm not into crazy skinny chick.