ita's link was wrong, and traumatic, and still kind of funny.

I'm pretty damn symmetrical, and yet, it's not really working out for me.

I can't believe people click ita's links. I mean, she even WARNS people, and yet, I see people clicking the links.

What gives? You're all the same people who slow down to look at accidents on the opposite side of the freeway, right?

Next time traffic is at a standstill for no particular reason, I'll think to myself, Somewhere a few miles up the freeway, bon bon is clicking one of ita's links. Fucking rubbernecking link-clicking bon. She does this every morning on the 405.

Wasn't beauty more currency for the privileged? I'd imagine, for men whose wives had to do stuff for everyone to get by, indicators of their practicality would be better currency--what is then attractive is what suits them best for the task. Childbearing hips, perhaps, or strong hands for working in the fields.

I doubt it. I don't think there are many old ballads or folk tales or poems about the guy who gets lucky and finds a nice sturdy bride. I could be wrong, but I don't know of any, "Oh, shallst I e're be worthy of her excellent threshing?"

tee hee hee hee.

Just ordered a bit of costuming for KT and ND's party next week. Hopefully it arrives in time. Hopefully it goes over well. 'taint much, but it's naughty.

Tee hee hee hee :)

Trudy--what about certain African cultures (and Polynesian too, I think) that find fat women the prettiest. Because fat has another meaning in those societies--healthy, from wealth, and probably good childbearing stock.

Much like thin has become some indicator of leisure these days--however shortsighted and inaccurate, it's supposed to be the people with more leisure who have time to be thin. Calories are readily available, so being heavy doesn't mean anything.

I remember reading the same thing about a tan. Back in the day, tan meant your worked outdoors, pale meant you were wealthy enough for leisure. That flips around in the late 20th, where tan means you have time to hang out in the sun, and pale means you're stuck in some sweatshop/office cubicle instead.

At least that's what I recall.

They're still valued for their beauty, its just a different standard of beauty.

It doesn't matter WHAT the standard is, beauty ends up being the #1 again and again.

I think pale and curvy is hawt.

Yay for pale and curvy! Bony hips can bruise.

IJS.

Mmmm gentle curves :) I miss them.... Oops, outloud typing again. Damn I hate that.

ION, after cleaning a bit, I decided to pull out "the rack" (known commercially as Total Gym 1000) to finally do some stretches. Step one to actually doing some excercises to lose some of my "prosperous" belly. What did I put in the DVD player? Firefly disc 1 :) Mmm, lets see, after a week of watching Season 2 Buffy, why not watch some Firefly. It's been a Joss week, what can I say! Shiney! :)

Mmm 4am, and still not sleepy. read? no! Let's watch Train Job. Gotta love insomnia.

At least it's nice to have insomnia have some bonus, after all.