I just love Degas.
Kyle Smith:
Apparently Nimoy’s book advances something called “the fat acceptance movement,†and Nimoy chastises us all–how dare we be attracted to the attractive?–in the book by noting that “the average American woman weighs 25 percent more than the models selling the clothes.†And a few women, apparently, weigh 300 percent more than the models selling the clothes.
Warning: not safe for anything (h/t Hot Air)
This terrible prejudice, it appears, has been with us since prehistory:
In the Neolithic settlement in a valley nestled between rivers, mountains and forests in what is now southern Serbia, men rushed around a smoking furnace melting metal for tools. An ox pulled a load of ore, passing by an art workshop and a group of young women in short skirts.
“According to the figurines we found, young women were beautifully dressed, like today’s girls in short tops and mini skirts, and wore bracelets around their arms,” said archaeologist Julka Kuzmanovic-Cvetkovic.
Thank goodness Nimoy is here to chart us a better future course, though I don’t really recall a whole lot of cellulite in outer space in any iteration of Star Trek (discounting, of course, the stuff between Guinan’s ears and Kirk’s corsets). In fact, that’s been a kind of Prime Directive.
I’d pay to watch this woman kick Naomi Campbell’s ass on pay-per-view.
Nimoy from the NYT article:
And what of his own attitude toward fat women?
“I do think they’re beautiful,†he said. “They’re full-bodied, full-blooded human beings.â€Â
He doesn’t necessarily find them sexually attractive. “But I do think they’re beautiful.”
Links are getting blocked again. Whats up with that?
I’m not having any troubles, Sarah.
I can put links in sometimes, but other times they get blocked. I can’t seem to figure out the difficulty. Other commenters have complained of it, so I know I’m not alone. Is there a chance my comment is stuck in moderation?
There’s certainly a chance. There are more there today than were there yesterday, but I don’t have access to that.
Just tried a test, and was blocked again. I’m logged in and everything, and getting duplicated comment messages when I try to repost. I tried posting the bare link and got blocked again. Bummer. It’s just a reuters news link.
Can you post it with -at- instead of @?
“According to the figurines we found, young women were beautifully dressed, like today’s girls in short tops and mini skirts, and had a facination with glittery, ruby-encrusted pumps,†said archaeologist Julka Kuzmanovic-Cvetkovic, a finding we base, in part, on the physiognomic resemblance to noted character actress Margaret Hamilton.http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/1985228460_ad90effbbf_o.jpg
Well, except for forgetter to delete a the pasted link from my own flickr page at the end there, that worked out.
The Reuters link was blocked. Hmmm. I don’t have a clue what the difference is.
I do so love to be told by others what I must find attractive in women in order to be considered a decent human being. The very fact that I, and most if not all men that I know prefer curvy gals with hips and boobs, (just not the saggy stomach ptosis) over Kate Moss is of no account.
Just remember, folks, after the bombs fall and all is gone but Mad-Maxian flatus-powered go-karts, it will be survival of the fattest, for the first few weeks, at least.
Well, in that case, I’m reasonably certain I will outlive you all!
BWAAAA HAHAHA (burp)
Do gingerbreads talk? SHUT UP, you chocolate gingerbread. I am not tasting you. *
Our tastes in womanly beauty have changed a bit over the years. Here’s the Venus de Willendorf, often thought to be the archetype of Paleolithic female pulcritude. Note the fancy hairdo and.. well even back then men didn’t focus on a woman’s face.
So round, so firm, so fully packed..
I’m sure I read somewhere that curvy women are more intelligent than skinny ones, and that men are more attracted to them.
Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests – as did their children.
I am awed by the arduous labors that researchers will perform for the sake of mankind.
Ok, there was supposed to be a blockquote around “Researchers …. children”
PIMF or at least it would be if there was one, mutter…mutter..mutter
Well, I don’t feel so bad now. I’m 40 pounds heavier than when my husband first tagged my ass, but I’m no where near the size of even the smallest woman in those pictures. While I can appreciate that women come in all sizes and shapes, carrying that much extra weight can not be healthy.
This may be a bit OT, but did any of you read the blurb on that “Venus de Willendorf” link that Swen put up? There was damn near as much feminist drivel about THE PATRIARCHY and paleolithic art books written as there was about the origins of the statue in question.
And yes, I like my women round, firm and fully packed, too.
Firm? Well, maybe, but try a cold winter night with a muscualt blond. Give me curvy without firm anytime…
musculalt is muscular. It’s not as good as comaprison, a typo I really admired.
Well … ahem … you know … I just like women. Skinny, fat, dark, fair, smooth-skinned, pock-marked, tall, short …, maybe it’s only me but it’s just that… like well … you know … they’re women.
Here’s a picture of Nimoy’s wife. My god! She’s huge!
Farmer Joe,
I don’t see that the lady is all that huge.
But don’t you think that it’s a little bit less than manly for men to show their teeth when they smile (and in Nimoy’s case I guarantee they’re store-bought teeth). ;)
PS. Smileys don’t work here. Substitute ^_^.
I like women who like me.
Yeah, that’s kinda that point. Nimoy can rhapsodize all he wants about body acceptance, but you think he’d marry a fat woman? Not a chance.
Yup.