Women Vs. Stick Figures

November 20, 2008
5:10 AM CST

Of the many things on this here website about which I’ve taken abuse, my fondness for large, curvy women has probably been among the leading contenders.

Allow me, then, to post two pictures (both taken two nights ago, at the same party): one of the world’s most celebrated curvies, and one of the world’s most famous supermodels, a byword for “beautiful” to many.

From left to right: Nigella Lawson and Claudia Schiffer

I need say no more.

Comments

Bottom of Comments | Original Post

Claudia needs extra fabric to make it look like she has boobs. Nigella has them. Also Nigella looks happier.

Author ID: 8648 | 11/20/2008 05:38 AM CST | #138593


What kind of influence would make the media body-standard for beautiful women the figure of a skinny teenage boy?  When a woman’s elbows are the largest part of her arm and you can see every rib, when your eye is drawn to her plunging neck line, it makes as much sense as the recent lending decisions for home mortgages.

We are hard wired to respond to sexual signals and I for one like a round, curvey woman who looks as if she would enjoy making, bearing and feeding children.  Even at my age I always perk up and pay a bit more attention when a TV show features a beautiful woman with bountiful curves. 

We were watching a sitcom a few nights ago and Sara Rue who had a familiar face was on, she would be considered large by current standards but to me she is a knock out. I also looked her up online and it seems as if she lost a lot of weight a couple of years ago and also lost her charm, now she has regained her stature and classic looks. 

Wouldn’t that be nice if we were able to see a few more lucious, curvey women instead of walking, talking stick figures in the movies and on TV.

Author ID: 7907 | 11/20/2008 06:04 AM CST | #138595


Wow, looks like Claudia has put on some weight! 

Author ID: 7019 | 11/20/2008 06:09 AM CST | #138596


Who put lipstick on Skeltor?

Author ID: 11075 | 11/20/2008 06:20 AM CST | #138598


One of the saddest things I have ever seen was a woman in the mall in AZ. She had facial features and bone structure that indicated that she was destined to be a beautiful woman. Unfortunately, she either had an eating disorder, or willfully starved herself in an attempt to imitate the supermodel look. The result was that her bone structure was no secret. She looked like a skeleton with a bit of skin draped over it.

There is an added benefit to those who have curves, or at least the appropriate amount of flesh attached to them. When the time comes to enjoy the physical properties your mutual attraction, it is more akin to laying down on a comfortably padded couch or recliner. The stick figures whom clothing designers and magazines claim are beautiful? They are kind of like snuggling with a bicycle rack.

Author ID: 186 | 11/20/2008 06:33 AM CST | #138601


Total agreement Kim. Skinny women do sweet FA for me. G-d I’m gonna miss your posts.

Author ID: 6430 | 11/20/2008 06:33 AM CST | #138602


Weird… Claudia used to be curvy.

Author ID: 11588 | 11/20/2008 06:38 AM CST | #138603


Nigella= yes.
Interchangable walking skeleton/supermodel= NO.

That is all.

Author ID: 7244 | 11/20/2008 06:39 AM CST | #138604


“What kind of influence would make the media body-standard for beautiful women the figure of a skinny teenage boy?”

Most of mode designers are gay. Don’t look further.

Author ID: 11617 | 11/20/2008 06:47 AM CST | #138605


What happened to Claudia?  She used to be hot!

Nigella is a bit big for me, but Claudia is pretty gross now.

K

Author ID: 11811 | 11/20/2008 06:47 AM CST | #138606


Gulp!  Ok, twitching now.....The whole red dress thing, it is a weakness of mine.  I feel the Beast Within awakening......

Rusty

Author ID: 11023 | 11/20/2008 06:52 AM CST | #138608


Ms. Lawson FTMFW

Just WOW! (and I’m partial to blondes)

Author ID: 424 | 11/20/2008 07:14 AM CST | #138612


Please feel free to post as many pictures of the goddess Nigella as you wish!

Author ID: 11082 | 11/20/2008 07:42 AM CST | #138614


somone feed the starving woman please.

Author ID: 8850 | 11/20/2008 08:24 AM CST | #138626


Perhaps we should take up a collection along the lines of “You can help feed this starving African child for only pennies a day” and get CARE type packages of wholesome foods, sent directly to that poor blonde waif.

Author ID: 7964 | 11/20/2008 08:30 AM CST | #138629


I first noticed Claudia back in the day because she was markedly curvier than her peers.  Too bad.

Author ID: 7799 | 11/20/2008 08:32 AM CST | #138630


Curvy is definately better.  Want to see some seriously curvy women?  Watch Telemundo or Univision and check out the Novelas.  You don’t have to understand Spanish to enjoy it.

Author ID: 10486 | 11/20/2008 08:39 AM CST | #138633


Holy Crap!  I’ve seen more attractive zombies!

She’s wasted away to nothing!  augh!  What idiocy!  What madness!  What insecurity!  Someone force feed her a hamburger or 10.

Give me a woman with some flesh on her bones anyday!

Author ID: 7681 | 11/20/2008 08:44 AM CST | #138635


Curvy is for me too as long as the lady is still somewhat fit (Ms. Lawson appears to be very fit).

I also typically prefer a natural brunette to a fake blonde.

Author ID: 8662 | 11/20/2008 08:50 AM CST | #138638


Nigella is as close to perfect as it gets imho.  Curvy and brunette.

Author ID: 11037 | 11/20/2008 08:57 AM CST | #138639


F-4 Dude is my new best friend.

Author ID: 2090 | 11/20/2008 08:59 AM CST | #138640


LOL Anna.

0 Author ID: 1 | 11/20/2008 10:11 AM CST | #138660


Frigate has the germ of an idea, there… have some starving children in [famine-ridden third-world hell-hole du jour] with “You can feed these kids for $2 a day”, coupled with a pic of a supermodel, captioned “Oh - and her, too”.

Author ID: 2342 | 11/20/2008 10:13 AM CST | #138662


Claudia would be stunning with about 20-30 lbs on her. She’s always been a tad skinny, but before she became Skeletor, she was healthy-looking and had a generous bosom.

Author ID: 8184 | 11/20/2008 10:29 AM CST | #138665


Dammit. You’ve made my eyes do that twitchy thing again. Someone pass me a large piece of marble. I need to pound my skull.
--
littlejbg

Author ID: 10790 | 11/20/2008 11:11 AM CST | #138676


Mmmmmm… Dawn French. Oh- sorry. Wrong post.

Author ID: 8348 | 11/20/2008 12:15 PM CST | #138695


I love watching Nigella on the Food network.  Sometimes, she will do a show in her robe.  I spend the entire episode hoping she is naked beneath the robe, and the robe will slowly start sliding off… and she doesn’t try to stop it.  Ooooh!  Where does the line for the cold shower start???

Author ID: 9388 | 11/20/2008 12:42 PM CST | #138703


You know, there is an intermediate step between “chunky” and “skinny.”

It’s called “healthy.”

Nigella needs to loan Claudia about fifteen pounds. Then they’ll both be perfect.

And I’m still looking for eye bleach after that Dawn French trauma.

Author ID: 1256 | 11/20/2008 12:48 PM CST | #138709


Well, according to scientific evidence, the insurance scales for “healthy” have been shown to be too low… by about 20%… so when you rudely conclude that Dawn French is physically hideous because she doesn’t meet YOUR definition of healthy, she meets that standard by others.

I find your remarks “unhealthy” so I would like to get some “eye bleach” after reading anything you have to say on this subject.  Is that any more or less an objective standard?

0 Author ID: 2 | 11/20/2008 12:52 PM CST | #138712


Connie;

Since WHEN have you ever been foolish enough to believe anything the INSURANCE companies try to tell you about health and weight?
C’mon; I always thought you had better sense than that!

Insurance companies are not in business to keep you healthy; they’re in business to make money, and if keeping you alive, starving, skinny, hungry, and crawling after bugs and bread crumbs is the way to do it, then get your knee pads out, ‘cause they’re about to send you to the floor! They don’t WANT you well-fed and strong, they want you fed just enough to not drop dead from malnutrition! STRONG clients can spare the energy to get up off the couch and sit for hours at the keyboard researching all the scams the insurance moguls run on us.

As long as you don’t OVEREAT, to where YOU feel bad (and you KNEW, even before your surgery - you just didn’t admit it, even to yourself), you’ll be okay. Just eat with you brain and your stomach, not your EYES and your tastebuds!

Why am I preaching to you, anyway? You’re smarter than I am about this - maybe I’m just reminding you.

Author ID: 8889 | 11/20/2008 01:10 PM CST | #138720


I prefer curves, but I would not say no to Claudia - if she were ever to ask which seems kinda unlikely.

Author ID: 10919 | 11/20/2008 02:25 PM CST | #138741


Ah, Kim, I’m gonna miss you sir. I’d like to think that you helped me realize that there is so much more to a bigger lady (pun intended) over the several years I’ve been visiting your blog. Thank you so much, and I will miss your daily wisdom.

Author ID: 11834 | 11/20/2008 03:21 PM CST | #138754


I have always figured that a pretty girl was a pretty girl, and that they come in all shapes and sizes - I’ve met girls that were willowy and those that were stocky, and equally beautiful.

The problem is that the concepts of grace and beauty seem to be ignored these days in favor of “sexy,” which as far as I can tell seems to consist of baring skin and lots of make-up. Why are low-rider jeans so popular today among young women? They break up the curve of the hips and give derriers a odd look, all for the sake of showing a bit of skin close to the pubic area. And why are all those models’ faces layered in paints and given a look ranging from slutty to demonic? Since when was “diseased black widow” an aphrodisiac?

Sheesh. 26 years old and already a cranky old man....

Author ID: 11044 | 11/20/2008 06:19 PM CST | #138777


Kim, Why do you want me to like the left

Author ID: 8294 | 11/21/2008 07:54 PM CST | #138906