I'm very happy because God created me in his image and they don't call him the Big Guy for nuthin'!!!

In regard to size, I am generally attracted to women of a more medium build.  Attraction is a funny thing though and for me it's more about comportment than build.  How a woman holds herself and moves, whether skinny or not so... Some women have idiosyncrasies that drive me nuts.  

fat. you know you are eating too much, and not moving around enough. so take control of your intake, go for a walk, or have crazy sex three times a day, but don't tell me you are ok, size 10 is not ok.

ehg. u look like size 4 in your pix!

u hot!

I think shorter, voluptuous girls look amazing. I wish I had a classic figure. Then again, people always want what they can't have. But most of the time I feel like a weird giant lady standing next to guys, even though I'm less than six feet tall. I have a thin, awkward body. I've experienced a lot of guys that are turned off by my body type. It's not always fun to be skinny.

spjv: "but the actual average size of an American woman is a size 14."  

that means that for every size 6 on either coast there is size 22 in between them coasts. that is sooo not hot!

MM size 12  5 decades ago is size 6 now. did you notice that some people who were wearing size 6 10 years ago now are wearing size zero. numbers are the same but they somehow got bigger to accommodate the feelings of average American woman. just saying

Well, Marilyn Monroe just had big hips (although actually, sizes have been scaled up over the years, so today she'd probably be like an 8 or 10).  MM had a teeny-tiny waist though.  

But yeah, I agree even in today's sizing there's nothing wrong with a 10.  (I would know because, I'm a 8-10 at almost 6ft, and plenty of people think I'm too skinny, so a shorter 10 could look more balanced).

Anyway, yeah I mean I study social science, and preferences for both males and females have changed throughout history and from one culture to another (like in Brazil, for most of the past century the culture has preferred big hips and small boobs)  I just find it interesting that men are so much more likely to try and justify their preferences (whatever they may be) as being some "biological imperative" or something than are women, at least in my experience.  And as someone who almost majored in biology and studied evolution and animal behavior and has read through various "evo psych" studies, I have a lot more opinions about that as well...

But, enough with the intellectualism...  Whatever size, I'd love to look as good as you do at 40.

T: it is all about proportions.

But the point, I think acamil, is that different people have preferences for different proportions, and that the most common preference has varied pretty widely from culture to culture

Toluca:  You've been calling yourself a skinny girl while I have been assuming I was a big boobs and booty gal, but upon reading your statistics I realize WE'RE THE SAME SIZE!  

This weekend, let's trade body images.  I'll be skinny Minny and you can be flashing your sweet T&A all around town!

of course they do! and there is nothing wrong with size 16 either (especially if everybody else is the same size).

"This weekend, let's trade body images."

I'm afraid there's more too it than that, unless you are truly body dysmorphic.  Because there is not a person I've met who does not consider me skinny.  Sizing can have a lot to do with hip bone and shoulder width measurements though I've noticed... at least for me it does.  To get pants that fit me around the hips, they're baggy almost everywhere else...  So you're almost 6ft?  I'm at the line between "normal" and "underweight" for my height on the BMI.

Toluca:  We're twins!  I'm close to 6ft and I've always been underweight according to the pantyhose chart, but my healthy behind requires ample fabric while the waist needs considerably less.  1970s corduroy hiphuggers are the only option.  Steeped in my thirties, the pointy edges have rounded a bit to symbolically match my harsh opinions softening.  

For years I had a man "type" which was very very tall and slightly brutish playboy musicians and trust-fund misanthropes.  As my curves filled in, I found a lean, classically handsome hardworking gent to wed and provide me the pleasure of being a "kept woman".  

You sound pretty!  Play up your skinny frame with skin-tight looks that enhance your helplessness if you yearn for rugged caretakers or dress boyishly to assert your androgyny and attract like-minded progressive men.  The world is yours!  

I don't know how true it is, but your last paragraph made me laugh.

I'm afraid I'd prefer to avoid 70s corduroy hiphuggers though...

You girls are so funny. Your little locker-room body bonding. I have a gymnast/dancer body so I feel preferred by everyone except modelizers and boob guys. I think the jeans that are saggy to make room for jutting hip bones are really beautiful and exquisite, probably because that's one thing mine will never do no matter how skinny I am.