{"id":33145,"date":"2020-12-21T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=33145"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:17:05","slug":"briefly-women-overestimate-mens-attraction-to-skinny-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=33145","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Women overestimate men\u2019s attraction to skinny bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Super-skinny-model.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33146\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Super-skinny-model.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Super-skinny-model.jpeg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Super-skinny-model-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been attracted to skinny women. There\u2019s nothing wrong with someone who\u2019s naturally thin, but it\u2019s never been my preference. What has shocked me, though, is the judgment I\u2019ve heard from women all through my life \u2014 about themselves and others \u2014 about who\u2019s \u201cfat.\u201d I concluded long ago that most women in our culture have been brainwashed to believe that skinny is attractive \u2014 and that anything other than skinny is ugly. I first assumed that I was the oddball \u2014 for preferring women with bigger and heavier bodies \u2014 but I\u2019m coming to the conclusion that most men naturally feel this way to one extent or another. I just ran across <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11199-020-01167-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new research<\/a> 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 \u2014 and to a lot of men, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never been attracted to skinny women. There\u2019s nothing wrong with someone who\u2019s naturally thin, but it\u2019s never been my preference. What has shocked me, though, is the judgment I\u2019ve heard from women all through my life \u2014 about themselves and others \u2014 about who\u2019s \u201cfat.\u201d I concluded long ago that most women in our <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=33145\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8CB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33148,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions\/33148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}