Weird Saying I've Wondered About A Long Time

[Msterbeau]

Oh right right. I get what you mean, and it's true. Like a heavy girl will be kinda shapeless if she doesn't have the underlying bones to make the padding stick out where it should...? Or a thinner girl will look more boyish if she doesn't have bones that give her much for hips?

Precisely. Although, the "padding" can also be unequally distributed so a person with a relatively "straight" bone structure might have the "padding" in just the right areas (Hips and chest) so that they still appear curvy. It ends up being one of those " I know it when I see it" kinda things.

[Fierce Critter]

Christ. I can't believe there's this much concern over the use of some adjective applying to one person and not the other.

Thin people get the following "positive" descriptives:

Svelte

Gamine

Lithe

Thin

Fit

Lean

Slender

Sound

Leggy

Toned

Trim

Sylphlike

Active

Muscular

Tight

Robust (to be fair, this is going on both lists)

"normal" sized (as opposed to the somewhat negative terms used to describe anyone above a size 10, such as "Plus" or "Full-figured")

And larger people get the following "positives" (and I looked hard for terms that weren't overboard into negative territory):

Curvy

Curvacious

Zaftig

Rubenesque

Ample

Voluptuous

Pleasingly Plump (Oh, lovely one that is)

Stout

Upholstered or Well-padded (Nice. Big chicks are fucking sofas.)

I also left out any terms that refer more to the size of a woman's bust than to the overall figure (i.e. "Stacked", "Buxom").

I think it's pretty clear that "positive" adjectives are much more numerous for smaller bodies than for larger.

Thesaurus.com if you want to do the research yourself.

Gads. Why begrudge the use of a fucking term when there are so many others applicable?

[Msterbeau]

Christ. I can't believe there's this much concern over the use of some adjective applying to one person and not the other.

Thin people get the following "positive" descriptives:

Svelte

Gamine

Lithe

Thin

Fit

Lean

Slender

Sound

Leggy

Toned

Trim

Sylphlike

Active

Muscular

Tight

Robust (to be fair, this is going on both lists)

"normal" sized (as opposed to the somewhat negative terms used to describe anyone above a size 10, such as "Plus" or "Full-figured")

And larger people get the following "positives" (and I looked hard for terms that weren't overboard into negative territory):

Curvy

Curvacious

Zaftig

Rubenesque

Ample

Voluptuous

Pleasingly Plump (Oh, lovely one that is)

Stout

Upholstered or Well-padded (Nice. Big chicks are fucking sofas.)

I also left out any terms that refer more to the size of a woman's bust than to the overall figure (i.e. "Stacked", "Buxom").

I think it's pretty clear that "positive" adjectives are much more numerous for smaller bodies than for larger.

Thesaurus.com if you want to do the research yourself.

Gads. Why begrudge the use of a fucking term when there are so many others applicable?

I dunno... I'm not THAT concerned. And I think that curvy covers a wide variety of sizes.... even if it's generally used for larger women.

[Pandora]

She's a Brick - Houuuuuuuse.

[predaking]

ok, let me rephrase... Super Skinny, and skinny well rather super skinny is the result of eating disorders. Your bones are only a frame your tissues fill that out. hows that work for ya?

[jadnifer]

First off, I would like to say that Chernobyl is a beautiful woman no matter whether she was 135 pounds, 170 pounds, or 400 pounds. No one has the right to make fun of her or anyone else for that matter.

I think that curvy, well, curvy means exactly that CURVES. Curves in the simplest terms that I can think of right now would be waves. Somebody that I would call curvy would be someone that seems to have a wavy body. If that doesn't make sense, please ask me to rephrase it because I am very tired right now.

As far as I'm concerned, I am fat. I will be the first one to admit it and I am trying to lose weight. It's not easy, but I'm trying. I don't let what others say about me affect what I am trying to do for myself though. My opinion is the only one that matters. I think that I am fat and that I need to lose weight, not because I think that I'm ugly but because I think that it would be better for my health. The only other person's opinion that matters to me on the subject of my weight is my boyfriend's and he loves me...fat and all.

[Miranda]

Appearance plays a big part in daily interaction and societal judgment and ridicule. Generally you are treated based on how you look by individuals who are not wise enough to understand there is more to a human being than what they may weigh. Now about this curvy term, to me it just means someone shapely at any weight. Beauty is inside of you. I am certain we have all seen what may be defined as a beautiful person on the outside yet so ugly within. It is important to live your life now, not 25 or 50 pounds from now, for this moment.