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From: faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Dates not eating and m/f body image
Message-ID: <1879@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 11:37:56 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1879
Posted: Tue Apr  2 11:37:56 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Apr-85 02:59:52 EST
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Reply-To: faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <187@sdcc13.UUCP> you write:
>
>I have also found *many* women who well call themselves ugly when they
>are actually attractive.  This is not unusual, because many men do this
>too.  But what bothers me is women who claim they are overweight, when
>they seem so slender!  Then, they believe that society (i. e. men)
>"pressure" women to be too thin (I think Barbara Z. falls into this
>category).  Well, those women are wrong.  They pressure themselves!
>Just look at all these women's magazines they buy.  Most of the models
>are very slender.  Women then take these as the example of the
>"perfect" women, just because a *few select* men who publish these
>magazines find such women attractive.  Well, I say those women ought to
>get their heads out of the magazines and look at the real world!  There
>are plenty of men out there who like not-so-slender women.
>
>Incidently, I have been told by some of my friends that I tend to be
>attracted to "overweight" women (I couldn't find a better word.  I mean
>women who have more fat than average).  One of those friends,
>admittedly, chooses the same variety.
>

A couple of points. There is a word to use instead of overweight.
Try BBW (Big Beautiful Woman). In fact, there are TWO fashion
mags devoted entirely to BBW's: "It's Me" and "BBW". Tell me if
you want subscription addresses. 

Also, it is true that many people (both men and women) have been
duped by Madison Avenue into thinking "you can never be too
thin". There re a number of books that discuss this; I'll try and
get a list of references and post it to the net.

There are a lot of men attracted to BBWs. I should know -- I'm
engaged to a BBW (and love every minute I'm with her).

Daniel
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