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[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I would like to know what this term means to this board.

Someone who is far too moronic to understand what you have pointed out time and time again about calories in versus calories used.

ncs, if you tire of Mr. Man, I have a 23-y-o for you. Oh, wait, he's too short.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Me too. In its original context, this was the "full-figured" gal.

Yup, good ole Jane Russell. However, I note that, while "full figured" was long ago intended to mean "busty or hourglass" it's been co-opted by the "busty - and also hippy, wiggly, jiggly, etc." and now effectively means "fat."

"Curvy," which was the main replacement for "full figured," is going the same way, thanks in no small part to "Real Women Have Curves," a great movie but one in which the women didn't so much have curves as sphericalness. "Womanly" is up next.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
"Curvy," which was the main replacement for "full figured," is going the same way, thanks in no small part to "Real Women Have Curves," a great movie but one in which the women didn't so much have curves as sphericalness. "Womanly" is up next.

I liked Real Women have Curves too, but at the same time it drives me bonkers that if you are not fat you are somehow "unreal." Not that I mind being imaginary because of all the magical benefits it provides, but still. Enough of this "real" crap.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I liked Real Women have Curves too, but at the same time it drives me bonkers that if you are not fat you are somehow "unreal." Not that I mind being imaginary because of all the magical benefits it provides, but still. Enough of this "real" crap.

I think the implication was more that the uncurvy are fake than that they are imaginary.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
All you Gladwell fans (or not such) may be interested to know that he's got a new piece in this week's New Yorker. He takes on what's wrong with our health care system. I haven't read the whole article yet but my first impression (hi SD and TS) is that he's pretty spot on about the source of the problems.

It's available online here.

I support the idea that health care is the government's responsibility. The Bush presidency will long be remembered as the first step toward making this country a third world one.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Spoken like someone who has never experienced a sandy vagina.

I thought those were scabs. But anyway, I am faster than sand.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I think the implication was more that the uncurvy are fake than that they are imaginary.

I don't know, fringey - there are a lot of fake women with curves out there. It's very misleading.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I support the idea that health care is the government's responsibility. The Bush presidency will long be remembered as the first step toward making this country a third world one.

If the premise of Collapse (Jared Diamond; great book) is to be believed, his environmental policies are also taking us down that path.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I don't know, fringey - there are a lot of fake women with curves out there. It's very misleading.

agreed (see ANS) but really there was no otherworldliness in that movie, where there were ghosts or whatever of skinny women.

In other news, I had dreams about a guy I dated more than half my life ago (and never had sex with) all night and woke up from one of them coming. Nice start to the day -- much better than coming to work to discover that once again we are going to have the discussion of what, exactly, constitutes disgustingly fat.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
agreed (see ANS) but really there was no otherworldliness in that movie, where there were ghosts or whatever of skinny women.

In other news, I had dreams about a guy I dated more than half my life ago (and never had sex with) all night and woke up from one of them coming.

Was there a wet spot?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
agreed (see ANS) but really there was no otherworldliness in that movie, where there were ghosts or whatever of skinny women.

I know. I was just being silly about the imaginary part.
I am glad you had a good dream.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Me too. In its original context, this was the "full-figured" gal.

No. Jane Russell was a calendar girl. She was not full figured until she was old. And fat. And did the bra commercials. When she was old. And fat.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Was there a wet spot?

No. In reality, I was alone, and nothing was hitting the place that might have resulted in that.

[nononono]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Yup, good ole Jane Russell. However, I note that, while "full figured" was long ago intended to mean "busty or hourglass" it's been co-opted by the "busty - and also hippy, wiggly, jiggly, etc." and now effectively means "fat."

"Curvy," which was the main replacement for "full figured," is going the same way, thanks in no small part to "Real Women Have Curves," a great movie but one in which the women didn't so much have curves as sphericalness. "Womanly" is up next.

Can't we blame Jane Russell herself for that? Didn't she - in later years when less hourglassy and more round - tout those Playtex 18-hour monster bras for "full figured gals"? Took any allure right out of the phrase right there.

Hate that "real women" terminology - seems to imply not only what gwnc and ltl/fb said, but also that that is what you should now aspire to.

And I say that as a fake woman with apparently exceedingly minor curves.

[Mr. Split Infinitive]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Worse than Mr. Split Infinitive?

Indeed I do suck. But it's nice to ultimately know that you are still suckier than me. You and your lot are the suckiest bunch of sucks who have ever sucked.