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Uh...a beautiful and forthright display of female autonomy...er...uhm...a timely reminder that objectification is in the mind of the beholder...oh, no...b'duh-b'duh-b'duh-b'duh...behold, the empowering spirit of the photographic medium...oh, screw it -
HAWT DAM - NEKKID DAWLS!
W W S L o F D ?
What would Sir Lawrence of Flint do?
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Fox = daily porn. It's a job requirement.
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Somebody get those girls a sandwich!
Nicely shot, though.
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actually those photos were amazingly tasteful.....for a change...
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Da-shiang bao-tza shr duh lah doo-tze! *storms out*
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Whenever I see a female that beautiful and so displaued, I am almost tempted to accept the teleological argument for the existence of God, and Intelligent Design. I know there are falws in both -- but none I can see in Eliza.
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Wowza, quite appealing in a visual kinda way...
Faith of course, always a hit, yes.
However, I got no idea who Sharon Leal is, but that lady has eyes you could drown in, seriously.
To quote Jayne "Can I know her?"
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Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Somebody get those girls a sandwich!
No, actually that's what healthy women are supposed to look like. I know that's not the average of what we see on the streets in North America these days. But, what we see on the street in North America isn't exactly healthy. It's what happens when we, on average, eat about 3-4 times the amount of food that we need and on top of that, make some tragic dietary choices that are 'food like substances' rather than actual food.
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SIGMANUNKI, spot on for the average calorie intake. Some like to blame fast food, but to me that is like blaming alcohol for drunks. Part of the problem in the US at least is the astonishing cheapness and availability of food. In contrast, look at Japan, where before WWII arteriosclerosis was low compared to the US - but so was the average height. During the occupation, the ration for Japanese citizens was about 2000 calories a day, while the US solider could consume over 4,500 calories a day if he so chose. Nowdyas, Japan has death rates comparable to ours for heart disease, as they added alot more meat and alocohol to their diet, but the height of the average Japanese is asymptotically approaching that of the US. Japan is better off, but only on the margin.
I suspect that we are going to have to re-learn how to use food, much the way the country had to re-learn how to use alcohol after Prohibition. In the early 1930s, alcohol became suddenly so cheap and available that there was a tremendous increase in alcoholism and alcohol related deaths. In response to that, AA was conceived and despite its many flaws, has done much good.
I believe that just about all humans are capable of looking shapely and weighing proportionally to their height and build. This gets harder as we age, and many of us will lose the Battle of the Bulge. Of course, there will always be those who keep their childhood tapeworm, and we not so gifted envy them.
So while every one has the potential to look good, not everyone is endowed with Eliza's gift. The existence of Eliza makes me grateful to whatever powers may be that I am a guy who likes girls. As for those of you males who have chosen to be exclusively sly, my humble thanks - less competition for the rest of us!
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Originally posted by Schism:
actually those photos were amazingly tasteful.....for a change...
I coulda gone for a slightly less tastefull lay-out myself.
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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Somebody get those girls a sandwich!
No, actually that's what healthy women are supposed to look like. I know that's not the average of what we see on the streets in North America these days. But, what we see on the street in North America isn't exactly healthy. It's what happens when we, on average, eat about 3-4 times the amount of food that we need and on top of that, make some tragic dietary choices that are 'food like substances' rather than actual food.
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I think it's taking it a bit far to say that's how they should look. Historically speaking, that has been the ideal form for women only for the last 30 years or so. In the big picture, "real" women have rarely looked like that. As recently as the 60's, a fuller figure was considered ideal - look at Marilyn Monroe - the epitome of female beauty at the time, and would be considered overweight today.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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EXCUSE ME!
Back on topic!!
Nekked wimmin!!!
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Quote:Simple sexual attraction to the purpose of propagating the species.
Originally posted by Penguin:
EXCUSE ME!
Back on topic!!
Nekked wimmin!!!
YOU GO GIRLS!!!!!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Eh, they're probably all Photoshopped anyway.
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Originally posted by Storymark:Quote:
Originally posted by Schism:
actually those photos were amazingly tasteful.....for a change...
I coulda gone for a slightly less tastefull lay-out myself.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Somebody get those girls a sandwich!
No, actually that's what healthy women are supposed to look like.
Unlikely. They are in the media because they are able to stay abnormally thin. You are supposed to put on weight with age, assuming no abnormal developments (obviously not several tons, but this is below normal)
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Originally posted by Penguin:
EXCUSE ME!
Back on topic!!
Nekked wimmin!!!
*yawn* - you'll get over that in time ;)
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Originally posted by Storymark:
I think it's taking it a bit far to say that's how they should look. Historically speaking, that has been the ideal form for women only for the last 30 years or so. In the big picture, "real" women have rarely looked like that. As recently as the 60's, a fuller figure was considered ideal - look at Marilyn Monroe - the epitome of female beauty at the time, and would be considered overweight today.
You're confusing ideal with healthy. I'm talking about a healthy women and what that looks like regardless of what is considered ideal. Slim women, such as the ones in these photos, are healthy. They don't "need a sandwich."
Point of fact, healthy diet (i.e. healthy food + exercise) and "you'll" look like that. At least it won't take much effort until one reaches 40. That is assuming that one hasn't totally screwed themselves already. But, who's fault is that.
Of course, age means "filling out" and that will eventually mean going not healthy when it comes to weight. But, that only really becomes an issue when one gets near geriatric.
But, QUANDOM is quite right. We in North America are really going to have to re-learn 1) what food actually is, and 2) what a proper portion size is. Our health really really depends on that. And if you think that there's no financial concerns, just wait a decade or two and see what happens to the health care system.
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Originally posted by LexiBlock:
Unlikely. They are in the media because they are able to stay abnormally thin. You are supposed to put on weight with age, assuming no abnormal developments (obviously not several tons, but this is below normal)
For there age they are completely normal. Again, you're confusing average with normal. These women are normal for the human body that has proper diet and exercise. That certainly doesn't fit what is average today. But, there is a difference between what is normal to the human body and the horror that the average person does to his/her body.
EDIT: I should add that having a tan was normal and encouraged at one point. So, was smoking. So, was a lot of stuff. Then we did this thing called learning. It changes things. It really does.
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Right. 'Cause being fat or skinny is all about diet and exercise. Which is why I have to eat a lot of veggies and work out five days a week to maintain my 110 pounds... except I don't. And, all those fatties must just eat too much/not exercise enough.
::rolls eyes::
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Originally posted by LexiBlock:Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Somebody get those girls a sandwich!
No, actually that's what healthy women are supposed to look like.
Unlikely. They are in the media because they are able to stay abnormally thin. You are supposed to put on weight with age, assuming no abnormal developments (obviously not several tons, but this is below normal)
Nah, I'm with SigmaNunki; it's really what women are supposed to look like. :) Eliza, at least. She simply has a perfect figure. Sierra, arguably, is probably a mite too thin; still frakkin' attractive, though, and her thinness is endlessly better-looking than, say, Mellie's chubbiness.
But that's just me, of course.
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Originally posted by LexiBlock:Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
Somebody get those girls a sandwich!
No, actually that's what healthy women are supposed to look like.
Unlikely. They are in the media because they are able to stay abnormally thin. You are supposed to put on weight with age, assuming no abnormal developments (obviously not several tons, but this is below normal)
Nah, I'm with SigmaNunki; it's really what women are supposed to look like. :) Eliza, at least. She simply has a perfect figure. Sierra, arguably, is probably a mite too thin; still frakkin' attractive, though, and her thinness is endlessly better-looking than, say, Mellie's chubbiness.
But that's just me, of course.
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Mellie's chubby? Really? I see her as more of the realistic body type and I'm a 21 year old health conscious San Franciscan who studies the nude figure most of the week.
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Point of fact, healthy diet (i.e. healthy food + exercise) and "you'll" look like that
Um... no?
Granted you can look like Eliza and be healthy, but the perfect figure isn't for everyone. It all depends on body type, metabolism and your genes. (Eliza probably has great genes) Some people aren't built to be the perfectly thin, they never will be. Granted taking out fast food and walking everywhere helps keep trim and healthy (I live in a fairly pro-health city, no drinking, no smoking, try to walk everywhere as well as cook for myself) but I don't think guys understand how difficult it is for most women to get to 'looking' like Eliza.
Men are built differently. You fellas are utilitarian, back in the day you were the hunters and providers. You have high metabolisms for the most part and in your prime you can eat a buffet table and not gain an ounce. It's easier for you to lose weight and stay in shape because you're designed that way.
Women, we are totally different. We were built to bare the fruit of thine loins therefore we are usually programmed to easily gain weight and keep it on. Our body chemistry is very different and it takes a lot more work for us to develop that sexy little six pack because in reality, we weren't really designed to flaunt that. Plus you guys have it easy with the eating thing because you never PMS. Try sticking to lean meats, rice, fruits and veggies when you're on your period for five days and every fibre of your being wants a pint of ben and jerrys and a bacon cheeseburger. And you're extremely growly to the rest of the world because you are denying yourself said unhealthy pleasure.
I used to look like Eliza. 5'7", 120 lbs, 5% body fat, between a size 3 and 5 with all lean muscle. It took ALOT of work to get down to that and maintain it as a woman. Beyond eating the right portions and foods, it was working out vigorously two hours a day. My brother? It's so easy for him to get ripped it's ridiculous. After various health scares (that had nothing to do with being that thin, in fact the fitness saved my life) I've settled on the fact that while I could go back to that zealous health nut lifestyle, ditch a few curves and slide a perfect ass back into my favorite jeans, I'm content being a little thicker. I'm healthy, I eat right, I walk a average of 3 miles a day, I go to the gym once a week, I don't look like any of those women.
Apologies if I am overstepping my bounds. My posts get a little wonky after midnight and weight always makes me a might techy.
Those pictures though...... ai... ya..... airbrushed for sure but very nice.
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Originally posted by yinyang:
Right. 'Cause being fat or skinny is all about diet and exercise. Which is why I have to eat a lot of veggies and work out five days a week to maintain my 110 pounds... except I don't. And, all those fatties must just eat too much/not exercise enough.
Actually, that's medical fact. There ARE certain foods that get that metabolism going. They are natural foods. Those food like substances that people eat today (e.g. at McDonalds, etc) are ones that kill the bodies metabolism. Then there's the trans fats, etc, etc, etc, that are in the more commonly eaten 'food.'
One doesn't get fat when one burns about the same amount of calories that they eat and eats a balanced diet.
Then there's the weird things that happen to the body when one doesn't get a balanced diet (and possibly eats many many calories). As in, those chips that are so popular might give someone the calories, but they certainly aren't healthy and they certainly don't have much nutritional value at all.
This might not be convenient to most people these days, but that's how it is.
That said, this can, depending on how far gone someone is, be reversed to one degree or another. The body is an amazing adaptive system and can recover from grand abuse. So, long as that abuse wasn't in the long term and too grand.
Want to do a comparison. Just take what the average weight was a couple decades ago (two is enough) and compare it to now. The do the same to the diet. I don't think that you'll be happy with the results. Because, they go right along with what I'm saying.
Hell, just look at the high-schoolers today verses a couple decades ago (again two is enough). Back then most were skinny, a couple were between that and chubby and a handful were fat. Now, what we got is most are chubby to fat with some obese and above with skinny getting more and more rare.
Now aside from the diet comparison during these times, take a look at the difference in exercise. An in, 'soccer moms' are kinda more prevalent now than then. So, the kids aren't walking nearly as much. The things they tend to do are becoming less and less active.
Etc.
Seriously. Sedentary lifestyle + poor diet = obesity. Yes, it really is that simple.
(EDIT: Fixed neural misfire in the equation.)
The one aside is when we leave generality and look at certain corner cases. As in, there are some medications that can cause weight gain by various mechanisms. Similarly, there are some medical conditions that do the same. BUT, these are few and far between (understatement) and as such can be safely ignored when speaking in general.
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Lol, SigmaNunki! I don't even know when to start. I'll come back with a more articulate reply when I've gotten some sleep, but until then, I find your views on this matter to be both stunningly incorrect and utterly repulsive.
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Originally posted by TuJiaoZuo:
Mellie's chubby? Really? I see her as more of the realistic body type and I'm a 21 year old health conscious San Franciscan who studies the nude figure most of the week.
No, she is chubby. Perhaps not by todays *average*. But, overall she is chubby.
Why do people keep confusing ideal, average and healthy? They... are... all... different... right... now.
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Originally posted by TuJiaoZuo:
Granted you can look like Eliza and be healthy, but the perfect figure isn't for everyone.
I'm stopping you here because you are misrepresenting me. You see, you are solely talking about Eliza and I'm not. I looked at ALL of them and constantly referenced ALL of them. And if you look, there is some padding on a couple of them. Did I complain and say that this shouldn't be? No. I said that ALL of these women would be considered healthy. I also mentioned that age was a factor among others.
Seriously, pointing at the best of them and referencing that as what I'm talking about?!?!? Poor form not to mention logical fallacy.
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I'm healthy, I eat right, I walk a average of 3 miles a day, I go to the gym once a week, I don't look like any of those women.
Three miles isn't really much. I mean, I might walk that in a day when I don't leave my apartment. Once a week also isn't enough. In fact, that wouldn't really have much of an overall effect at all. And if you aren't near (you didn't say how far away you are from these women) what these women look like, I'd say that you aren't eating as healthy as you think you are (stats would tell me portion size is the main issue).
Working out effectively means doing it at least 3 times a week. But, that doesn't have to be at the gym. It can be some yoga in the living room for half an hour per day.
I honestly don't understand why people think that working out needs to be at a gym. Playing football or rollerblading or yoga at home or ... would be just as good and more fun. Not to mention cheaper.
It's about regular (i.e. pretty much daily) exercise. Anything other than that and one get drastically diminishing returns.
As an aside, the no time thing is also total BS. That is assuming that ones life isn't a gigantic cluster f***. Because, if it is, then one needs to fix there life before becoming more healthy (less stress = more healthy as well). Anyway, when one exercises, it has many many benefits. One of them being becoming more efficient overall. So, one might lose that 1/2 hour to exercise. But, it'll also lead to better efficiency that will compensate for that lose. It's positive sum game.
At any rate, this whole thing reminds me of a friend of my wife's parents. She keeps saying how she doesn't understand how she is fat. Because, you know, she eats so little. And seeing what she puts on her plate at meals, one would think that too. But, when you watch her cook, she is constantly nibbling on this that and the other thing. In other words, she 'nickel and diming' herself to death.
Which leads me into something else that I see as a problem in North America (though primarily the US <- changing though). That being the overstatement of what one does right and the understatement of what one does wrong. The real killer though, is that these things don't even seem to be deliberate. These people actually seem to believe it and resist the truth even when confronted absolute proof.
With this sort of mentality, I quake for our worlds future.
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Originally posted by yinyang:
Lol, SigmaNunki! I don't even know when to start. I'll come back with a more articulate reply when I've gotten some sleep, but until then, I find your views on this matter to be both stunningly incorrect and utterly repulsive.
Thank you for showing us just what level you are working on
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Originally posted by asarian:
Nah, I'm with SigmaNunki; it's really what women are supposed to look like. :) Eliza, at least. She simply has a perfect figure. Sierra, arguably, is probably a mite too thin; still frakkin' attractive, though, and her thinness is endlessly better-looking than, say, Mellie's chubbiness.
Mellie's chubby? Really? I see her as more of the realistic body type and I'm a 21 year old health conscious San Franciscan who studies the nude figure most of the week.
My, I really stepped into a hornet's nest here, didn't I? :)
But please, define 'realistic.' Do you mean realistic, as is an attainable goal, doable without taking too many extraordinary steps? Or more like 'normal'? Problem with the latter of course is, that then apparently being chubbier is currently the norm. Which it might very well be (and probably is). Doesn't mean that's necessarily a good thing, though: it just means it's 'normal.'
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I used to look like Eliza. 5'7", 120 lbs, 5% body fat, between a size 3 and 5 with all lean muscle. It took ALOT of work to get down to that and maintain it as a woman.
I'm sure it does. And I can fully understand how one could be a mite touchy around a topic like this. And what I said wasn't really meant as a judgement, either. According to Seinfeld, only 5% of the world's population is really attractive: the rest is totally undateable. :) So, seriously now, practically none of us makes the 5% cut. Big deal. It really would be totally unrealistic to expect every woman to have Eliza's figure (or, say, Victor's bod' -- whichever one prefers). So, chances are, in real life, you'll run into a Mellie far more often than an Eliza. And when you DO find an Eliza, and you happen to be a Producer, you'll hang on to her for dear life and build a show around her, because hers is apparently a figure men like to see (I can vouch for the latter).
But, lest we forget, this is showbiz. Our Firefly BDH's are assuredly above-average looking too. So, TV gives us a Saffron, whilst the world is filled with Mellies. And the women get to swoon over Mal, whilst in real life you get to see your sisteren getting paired off with ugly men, vicious or blubberous, men with appetites too unseemly to speak on. :) Or somewhere in-between, most like. Point just is, there's a big difference between 'ideal' and 'real.' They're probably not even in the same boat.
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(I apologize in advance for the length of this post.)
Alright, starting from the very tippy top, these are my four major rebuttals to your comments, SigmaNunki. They are:
1) Thin =! healthy, and fat =! unhealthy; in fact, being overweight or obese may even be protective.
2) Calories in, calories out is bunk.
3) We’re not eating more trans fats (or “bad foods,” or calories in general) than we have in the past (and trans fats may not even be bad for us, anyway).
4) Average weights aren’t significantly higher than a few decades ago, and our health continues to improve.
I also have a fifth point about the BMI, which, while you didn't mention specifically, is a relevant point, IMO:
5) The metric that determines “overweight” and “obese,” the BMI, is bullshit. It is a crude measurement that only takes height and weight into consideration, nothing else - not muscle mass, body type, age, or gender. It assumes that all people’s bodies are, essentially, the same.
Now, those are the reasons why I think you're wrong. The reason why I find your views to be repulsive is that they imply that all the non-thin people I know - no less the wonderful people who frequent this site - are either lazy, or gluttonous, or both, for failing to conform to what your opinion of the normal body type should be. An opinion of normal which seems to "conveniently" and "coincidentally" conform to the current female beauty standards - standards which are catered directly to the average male heterosexual.
Now, I've got evidence to back up my first five claims. This is the part that gets really long, but I think it's important to show that I'm not just disagreeing with you out of conjecture or spite. Note: all underlining emphasis within quotes has been added by me; pretty much everything else is from the original text.
1) Thin =! healthy, and fat =! unhealthy; in fact, being overweight or obese may even be protective.
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Claim #2: ‘Mortality rates increase with increasing degrees of overweight, as measured by BMI.’—WHO, 2003 (p. 61) 2
This claim, central to arguments that higher than average body mass amount to a major public health problem, is at best weakly supported by the epidemiological literature. Except at true statistical extremes, high body mass is a very weak predictor of mortality, and may even be protective in older populations. In particular, the claim that ‘overweight’ (BMI 25–29.9) increases mortality risk in any meaningful way is impossible to reconcile with numerous large-scale studies that have found no increase in relative risk among the so-called ‘overweight’, or have found a lower relative risk for premature mortality among this cohort than among persons of so-called ‘normal’ or ‘ideal’ [sic] weight. Among the obese, little or no increase in relative risk for premature mortality is observed until one reaches BMIs in the upper 30s or higher. In other words, the vast majority of people labelled ‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ according to current definitions do not in fact face any meaningful increased risk for early death. Indeed the most recent comprehensive analysis of this question within the context of the US population found more premature deaths associated with a BMI of ,25 than with a BMI above it. This was largely owing to the finding that lowest death rates fell within the BMI range of 25–29.9—some 86 000 fewer ‘excess’ deaths than was observed in the referent group, the so-called ‘normal weight’ BMI range of 18.5–24.9. Additional analyses that controlled for potential confounders such as length of follow-up, weight stability, weight loss caused by illness, or smoking status did not change the results. For this nationally representative cohort of US adults—National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys I, II, and III—the ‘ideal’ weight for longevity was ‘overweight’. 6
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/saguy/IJE.pdf
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