I’ve never been attracted to skinny women. There’s nothing wrong with someone who’s naturally thin, but it’s never been my preference. What has shocked me, though, is the judgment I’ve heard from women all through my life — about themselves and others — about who’s “fat.” I concluded long ago that most women in our culture have been brainwashed to believe that skinny is attractive — and that anything other than skinny is ugly. I first assumed that I was the oddball — for preferring women with bigger and heavier bodies — but I’m coming to the conclusion that most men naturally feel this way to one extent or another. I just ran across new research by a couple of Northwestern University psychology professors that shows that women seriously overestimate how much a straight man will be attracted to a skinny woman. In a perfect world, we would all be at a healthy weight, but when it comes to attractiveness, too heavy is more attractive than skinny. At least to me — and to a lot of men, too.
Briefly: Old Bernie Sanders papers paint him as full of self-doubt
Briefly: Dumbed-down public discourse means reason is dead
Briefly: Modern culture seems to be coming apart
I am angry that life doesn’t work the way I once learned it should
‘Vast military-industrial complex’ keeps growing and keeps killing
W.V. student suspended from school and arrested for pro-gun t-shirt
Why are we uncomfortable when other people aren’t much like us?