Is it normal to find "thigh gaps" unattractive?

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It's apart of the whole thinsperation/super model look. I don't see what the big deal is about having your thighs not touching or rubbing against each other. I'm a girl, my thighs touch, and I'm fine with it. The whole idea of being thin is real a turn off for me. Most of the pictures I've seen are of super models or young girls, NONE of them look healthy. Tumbler has several pages dedicated to achieving this look with things like 300 calorie diets, exercising a certain way, even wearing tight clothing to help shape up the look of your legs. Why is being model thin such a big deal? Isn't obsessing over something like this bad for your health anyway?

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  • anti-hero
    11 years ago | pl

    I like a little meat on the drumsticks.

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  • VioletTrees
    11 years ago

    I said "other". Yes, it's normal not to find thigh gaps particularly appealing. It sounds like you have a pretty healthy idea of what your body looks like and "should" look like.

    As such, thinspo isn't *for* you. Yes, thinspo is unhealthy, but you don't catch anorexia or bulimia from tumblr or weheartit. If you're obsessing over those images, there's already something wrong. It's complicated, and it varies a lot from person to person, but eating disorders have deeper roots than just wanting to be thin.

    I'm talking about eating disorders right now because people with eating disorders, like me, are who those images are for. You don't have to have an eating disorder to run a thinspo or pro ana page, exactly, (or at least, your eating disorder can be subclinical), but by and large, those images are being collected, tagged, and obsessed over by people who are already ill.

    As for why it's such a big deal, I'm not really sure how to answer that. I've been bulimic for about ten years now. Of course it's a big deal. There are a lot of things that can contribute to that: parents who overemphasise thinness or healthy eating in an unhealthy way during childhood, feeling that food is the only thing that I can really control, feeling that my body doesn't belong to me, autism spectrum disorders, etc. It's complicated.

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  • bananaface
    11 years ago

    I've never found it particularly attractive either.

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  • purpleflower
    10 years ago

    My thighs don't touch. But I'm not very skinny, either. It's more of a structural thing, my legs aren't aligned properly.

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  • Magenta_W
    11 years ago

    No, it's ridiculous. The only place I've ever heard the term "thigh gap" is Tumblr, and that place is one heaving mass of stupidity and gang mentality.

    (PS. I accidentally voted that is is wrong to find them attractive, sorry. I think make no difference to how attractive someone is, and people need to stop making such a big deal out of them.)

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  • yoyomah
    11 years ago

    The thigh gap makes me think of the Holocaust. There's nothing cute about starvation.

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  • LeatherbackSeaTurtleIsABadass
    11 years ago

    Thank god someone is finally expressing a genuine concern about all this shit. You are totally normal.

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  • SceedarMoon
    11 years ago

    Not to mention mental health...

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  • robbieforgotpw
    11 years ago

    I prefer thunder in the thighs

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  • thegruffalo
    11 years ago

    I don't really get the whole gap thing.

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    Some girls are just naturally slim and can't do much about it. I am not one of them.

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