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> richard@plesiosaur.com (Richard Forrest) wrote in message
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> > >
> > > I think the problem is with some of the studies you have given is that
they
> > > are biassed because obese people write them.
> > >
> > > Uncle Davey
> >
> > My word! Isn't it easy to dismiss evidence that contradicts your view!
> > Thanks for the laugh.
> >
> > RF
> >
> > PS You're not exactly persuading me by the force of your argument and
> > evidence.
>
> Here is an interesting point. When the truly mass production of
> images on paper became cheap and easy, from high speed rotary presses,
> around the turn of the last century, it was possible for the first
> time to provide chick-pictures to a mass market. You will look forever
> to find any mass produced images of female beauty that are anywhere
> near fat. Check out the vargas girls who were staple pinups in the 2nd
> WW.
> It is hard to know exactly why stone images of fat women were mass
> produced 20,000 years ago. It is unlikely that they were love objects
> because such women have low fertility and would be a lot of trouble to
> carry around from place to place in stone-age Europe. Maybe the
> statues were used as fear inducing objects in primitive warfare --
> something to throw at an enemy to make them run away.
> As for all those Raphaels, Who knows? He was being paid to portray
> certain rich people. Who knows why they wanted what he produced?
> But for images of female beauty for a mass market, there has been
> virtually no fat-women-images, ever. Maryln Monroe, at the end of her
> life, was at the upper limit of what has ever been considered
> marketable.
>
I sometimes think those old stone figures where there to tease fat women and
encourage them to slim down a little, and regain their value to the tribe.
They probably stuck them in the fridge so as to scare off the fat women when
they went there by night to get their sleeping calories.
Uncle Davey
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