Why are most female beauty issues concerned with weight?

Question

When women fret about their beauty, it's usually their weight they want to change (downwards, almost invariably). While thin-to-average women are generally regarded as more attractive than heavy-to-obese women, weight is only one aspect of beauty; and a diet ain't going to change your low cheekbones, big nose, sticky-out ears, boring hair, unsymmetrical face, et cetera. So why the focus on weight? Just because it's one of the more changeable properties of a woman?

Answer 1

Sadly, it's a cultural thing, and body-hating is passed on from mother to daughter like the plague.

Stylish body types have changed over the ages. A lot depends on how affluent the society is at the time. For instance, during the middle ages and Renaissance, food was scarcer than it is now, and a fashionable woman was one that we would consider overweight. If you were fat in that time, it meant you were wealthy enough not to have to do any manual labor, and you had enough money to buy any amount of food you wanted to eat. The average person had to work hard for their meager meals, so fat ladies were in style! Fast forward to any post-industrial period, and you will see that thin is in. As soon as food became relatively cheap and available, then fat girls were out of style. Strange, isn't it?

The pity is that there are all types of bodies. Some women will never be really thin, even if they exercise and diet. And yet, they will torture themselves over it mentally and physically, because society hates a fat girl, and so she must hate herself. Unless she becomes enlightened to the fact that everyone is beautiful, just as they are. Seriously, I love the way bigger women look. Not people who are at an unhealthy weight for themselves, but girls who are luscious and rounded look really nice. If a girl can accept herself at that weight, be comfortable and confident, and dress to accentuate the positive ~ she is usually a knockout even if some people consider her "fat".

Answer 2

i don't understand why people obsess over weight either. i think its the face (lips, nose, eyes) that are more important to change.....i think a lot of girls equate skinny with beautiful & that's why. fortunately, i don't think that way. i prefer slim-curvy. just a healthy looking size.

Answer 3

because that is the only thing you can change with out surgery.

Answer 4

thank magazines and ads, commercaials, movie stars, celebs..... etc.