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<p>[QUOTE="Stevearino, post: 4283940, member: 74571"]I strongly disagree that evolutionary standards favor your idea of beauty. Google "Venus of Willendorf" for an image of the famous paleo carving showing a VERY heavy-set woman. And that carving is just one of many paleo carvings depicting obese women. THAT was their standard of beauty. An obese woman could afford to bear and nurse children, survive the winter, know how to forage and may have reflected on her provider(s) as a well-fed woman likely showed that the hunters in her clan were competent.'</p><p><br /></p><p>Google Titian and look at the size of those women. That was a standard of beauty, also. No Skinny-Minnies there.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest, I have had to overcome a prejudice against obese people. Maybe I'm finally growing up. Maybe the realization and acceptance of my own addictions and genetic inheritance are encouraging me to accept that of others.</p><p>Maybe what's on the inside really DOES count more than what one sees, and beauty really is only skin deep.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that I prefer my wife of 48 years today even though she is quite a bit overweight, over my wife of the honeymoon era when she weighed 115. Today she knows me and still loves me. Back then she was judgmental and tried to change me (try to change an extrovert with ADHD and addictive tendencies and let me know how that works for you). She is still beautiful to me because in her I see our children, grandchildren and a vast host of memories, good and bad, that make up who we are together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Steve[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Stevearino, post: 4283940, member: 74571"]I strongly disagree that evolutionary standards favor your idea of beauty. Google "Venus of Willendorf" for an image of the famous paleo carving showing a VERY heavy-set woman. And that carving is just one of many paleo carvings depicting obese women. THAT was their standard of beauty. An obese woman could afford to bear and nurse children, survive the winter, know how to forage and may have reflected on her provider(s) as a well-fed woman likely showed that the hunters in her clan were competent.' Google Titian and look at the size of those women. That was a standard of beauty, also. No Skinny-Minnies there. To be honest, I have had to overcome a prejudice against obese people. Maybe I'm finally growing up. Maybe the realization and acceptance of my own addictions and genetic inheritance are encouraging me to accept that of others. Maybe what's on the inside really DOES count more than what one sees, and beauty really is only skin deep. I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that I prefer my wife of 48 years today even though she is quite a bit overweight, over my wife of the honeymoon era when she weighed 115. Today she knows me and still loves me. Back then she was judgmental and tried to change me (try to change an extrovert with ADHD and addictive tendencies and let me know how that works for you). She is still beautiful to me because in her I see our children, grandchildren and a vast host of memories, good and bad, that make up who we are together. Steve[/QUOTE]
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