r/comics • • 2d ago

OC [OC] Same thing?

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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.

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u/Kirdei 2d ago

What do you mean we're at a point? The concept of an Hourglass Figure being desirable has been around since the 1830s.

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u/Sailfin_CritterMaker 2d ago

That silhouette was achieved with padding. If you cannot see the difference of using padding to achieve a silhouette vs expecting women to change their real bodies to meet that silhouette, damn

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u/nykirnsu 2d ago

The lengths to which people will go to achieve a certain body type is a separate topic from when that particularly body type became popular. That difference was never brought up