Susan S <otoeremovethis@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:<3k3120lv3d98r227k6kim8s3m39fufgvl6@4ax.com>...
> In talk.origins I read this message from MitCoffey@aol.com
> (Mitchell Coffey):
>
> >rdubose@pdq.net (Ralph DuBose) wrote in message news:<cb5b2d4e.0402021542.4498bb00@posting.google.com>...
> >> richard@plesiosaur.com (Richard Forrest) wrote in message news:<892cb437.0402020645.66f5141b@posting.google.com>...
> >> > >
> >> > > 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.
> >
> >Much cheekier than what you see now.
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >Such people had higher fertility in stone-age conditions, when food
> >supplies were uneven..
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >Special pleading. You're explaining away the mass of evidence against
> >you with ad hoc assertions. When cheesecake was expensive to produce,
> >pictures of fat ladies got produced, you don't really say why. But
> >when a great dead of effort went into production, and the product was
> >relatively rare and valuable, the cheesecake tended toward heavey.
> >Why, you don't say.
> >
> >I note also how you dismiss any speculation on people's motives ("Who
> >knows why they wanted what he produced")when you think it helps your
> >argument to be dismisive, while going for the gold when you think it
> >helps to speculate ("Maybe the statues were used as fear inducing
> >objects"). I suppose it likely you were joking; which means you had
> >no real response to that bit of evidence at all.
> >
> >Monroe, by the way, was not at the upper-limit of marketable pin-up
> >photos. Your comment that there have been virtually no
> >fat-women-images, ever, on the mass market is inaccurate. In the 19th
> >c. a healthy market for pin-up still grew hard upon the evention of
> >photography. Fat was often the word of the day.
> >
> >Mitchell Coffey
>
> Davey is just plain wrong. Even I know that a subset of the
> pornography industry is devoted to larger women. Research into
> which female body types are considered most attractive by male
> residents of the U.S. shows that the waist-to-hip ratio was the
> most important factor.
>
> Susan Silberstein
I said that waist to hip ration is the most important, somewhere in
this thread, and I also said that when a woman gets too fat that
generally reduces that ratio. If a woman has a fat rounded backside
coupled with a slim waist, then she'll have her admirers, but with a
cag dangling in front, I think not.
Best
Uncle Davey
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