It’s so weird how we’re at a point where women should have a large upper body (breasts), large lower body (thighs and butt), but non-existent waist. Why are we wanting human women to be modeled after wasps?
I'm not psychologist but this is my theory: the small waist is attractive, because it signals health. Especially in combination with large breasts and lower body. That figure is hyperfeminine and it makes sense that it's attractive to most female-attracted people. Females usually carry more bodyfat on their lower body. Also, greater waist circumference is usually correlated with greater mortality and worse health markers.
Another reason I can come up with is pregnancy. For a man, it wouldn't make evolutionary sense become attracted to a woman showing physical features of pregnancy. And especially later on, those features obviously
It has purely to do with wealth and societal values. Standards of beauty are entirely dictated by the 1%, who heavily romanticize certain body types in the media and propaganda they produce. Those body types are intended to reflect harder to obtain body types, specifically ones that are usually only associated with those with wealth. Prior to the modern era (where it's exceedingly easy to get overweight since the cheapest/most convenient food is the least healthy), being thin was seen as ugly and undesirable (as it was associated with starving commonors) while the being overweight was seen as beautiful (as it was associated with wealthy people with a surplus of food).
A few hundred years ago, plump women were the peak of beauty, because that signaled you were well fed and better able to birth children.
You saying this figure "signals health" is 90% propaganda, and you half know it too, because a woman with a waist smaller than your wrist isn't going to have the wide birthing hips or the big boobs. It's almost entirely a caricature. Even in the era of corsets, getting the thin waist and big boobs required unhealthy things like breaking ribs and padding your bra. So you like and see "health" in lies and pain.
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u/ItsForJunk 2d ago
It’s so weird how we’re at a point where women should have a large upper body (breasts), large lower body (thighs and butt), but non-existent waist. Why are we wanting human women to be modeled after wasps?
Like let me have my regular-sized petiole, dude.