I far prefer fuller hips on a woman. I am pleased that women like J-Lo, Beyonce and (ugh) Kim K., have made hips and butt on a woman acceptable again. As a teen of the 80's it was quite disconcerting to see women who looked like adolescent boys from behind.
The 80's were different. I remember one of the most popular stores was 5-7-9. I was a junior size 9, 5'5, hour glass. Widely considered to have pretty much an ideal shape. So much so that I often disguised my looks when I went out during the day, wearing baggy clothes, my hair pulled into a very severe bun, and no makeup. I really never liked dealing with all of the attention that being young and conventionally good looking brings. Some of it was scary, most of it just annoying. And even now when I frankly no longer have that knock out body, and of course the bloom of youth is gone, I don't miss it, don't want that level of attention back. I have not yet reached "invisible" status, and don't know how I will feel then.
Here is the point; beauty standards changed. In the 90's came Ally McBeal and I no longer had the culturally ideal figure. Regardless of what individual men felt.
Today, 5-7-9 could not exist because the ideal size is 0. Yes, women have actually been encouraged to starve to a size 0! A non-existent size! A nothing! Think about that and all of its implications.
And the thing is that women need to be able to have worth in this society even if
no one wants to fuck them. I think that's really important. I appreciate that some men want to tell us they like a woman with tits and ass...but, our worth cannot be dependent upon that. And I think society teaches us all that it largely is.
Even those women who enjoy conventional good looks will eventually lose them, or at least a part of them. And some will never have them, let's be honest, just as some men will never be conventionally attractive. (does not mean someone won't find them attractive, do not get me wrong).
We all have worth that is far greater than this. We must have.
