Probably from the millions of instances in which I've seen men specifically say, "No fat chicks" either verbally, with T-shirts, Facebook pages as well as implicit pressure that females feel when males feel the need to look at the rail-figured women in porn, oggle at women with as much body fat as my small finger has etc, their rap songs, their country songs, goodness there are far to many exampled to list...
You can argue that explicitly stating disgust for "fat chicks", which, whether or not you wish to accept it, includes women that have visible amounts of body fat (there really is no true definition of what it means to be fat, there is overweight and obese, but people typically don't narrow it down so nicely), even though it reduces said women to two simple and somewhat offensive words (she's not a woman, she is a "fat chick") does not count as "pressuring women to be skinny", and I would accept that argument with credence to YOUR personal definition of the word skinny, but take it from a males perspective...
If a large number of women expressed their desire for a certain type of male (eg. masculine and muscular) and you're not exactly up to par with the men in the magazines that they oggle and the pornos that they watch with those men in them, and they blatantly and explicitly expressed that they would have no alternative (no skinny wimps!), and it appears as if your pool of potential mates is limited to how well you can live up to the explicit "no skinny wimps!" declaration, would you not agree that a large number of men would rightly so, feel pressured to live up to an expectation that, in reality, may be unattainable for some men?
The pressure isn't coming from men 100%, but much of it does come from men. It doesn't help that even women feel the need to criticize each other. I know that women do these things for the purposes of attracting men, not just to please other women, and they will do what men seem to respond to most as "attractive". These women are ultimately out to be attractive to men, and market responds to demand...
I'm not implying that it's exclusively the fault of men but once again, I must add, the market responds to demand!
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Probably from the millions of instances in which I've seen men specifically say, "No fat chicks" either verbally, with T-shirts, Facebook pages as well as implicit pressure that females feel when males feel the need to look at the rail-figured women in porn, oggle at women with as much body fat as my small finger has etc, their rap songs, their country songs, goodness there are far to many exampled to list...
You can argue that explicitly stating disgust for "fat chicks", which, whether or not you wish to accept it, includes women that have visible amounts of body fat (there really is no true definition of what it means to be fat, there is overweight and obese, but people typically don't narrow it down so nicely), even though it reduces said women to two simple and somewhat offensive words (she's not a woman, she is a "fat chick") does not count as "pressuring women to be skinny", and I would accept that argument with credence to YOUR personal definition of the word skinny, but take it from a males perspective...
If a large number of women expressed their desire for a certain type of male (eg. masculine and muscular) and you're not exactly up to par with the men in the magazines that they oggle and the pornos that they watch with those men in them, and they blatantly and explicitly expressed that they would have no alternative (no skinny wimps!), and it appears as if your pool of potential mates is limited to how well you can live up to the explicit "no skinny wimps!" declaration, would you not agree that a large number of men would rightly so, feel pressured to live up to an expectation that, in reality, may be unattainable for some men?
The pressure isn't coming from men 100%, but much of it does come from men. It doesn't help that even women feel the need to criticize each other. I know that women do these things for the purposes of attracting men, not just to please other women, and they will do what men seem to respond to most as "attractive". These women are ultimately out to be attractive to men, and market responds to demand...
I'm not implying that it's exclusively the fault of men but once again, I must add, the market responds to demand!
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I dissagree with most of what you typed, but I'm really not motivated enough to reply in full, which would be needed for you to see my point.
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Fair enough.