The first thing I thought of when I looked at the 'revised' bodies was 'dude, when did we start defining attractive as 'barely-into-puberty-teenage-girl'?
Exactly! Again I was watching dancers perform pieces today and I was struck by the different body types. The ones that were really dynamic movers and interesting to watch tended to be the ones with the more normal body size. There was one tiny girl and everytime I looked at her I kept thinking "spider twitching". It was awful. I'm sure she's a very nice girl but the illusion of flow was disrupted by her skinny little arms and legs. It looked like the other girls could break her. She looked like a child amongst women.
When I was little I had the opposite issue. I had an uber high metabolism but was kept indoors at all times because that's the society I grew up in. People constantly asked if I was anorexic. I'd much rather be FIT then skinny enough that people think I starve myself.
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Date: 2009-02-03 01:58 am (UTC)Exactly! Again I was watching dancers perform pieces today and I was struck by the different body types. The ones that were really dynamic movers and interesting to watch tended to be the ones with the more normal body size. There was one tiny girl and everytime I looked at her I kept thinking "spider twitching". It was awful. I'm sure she's a very nice girl but the illusion of flow was disrupted by her skinny little arms and legs. It looked like the other girls could break her. She looked like a child amongst women.
When I was little I had the opposite issue. I had an uber high metabolism but was kept indoors at all times because that's the society I grew up in. People constantly asked if I was anorexic. I'd much rather be FIT then skinny enough that people think I starve myself.