Thought for Food

miss-r:

Why do so many women choose to manufacture their appearance in this particular way (bleach blonde hair, tan, big boobs, tiny hips)? And why is a look that almost no one (save a few Scandinavians) has naturally the primary ideal of “hotness” in Western society?

We know this, but let’s take a moment to remind ourselves that “hotness” is subjective. Juergen Teller, fashion photography icon-in-the-making and heterosexual man, is “for the individual human being, not some plastic figure.”  Of glossy fashion spreads (which, admittedly, are not populated by cartoonishly sexy bunnies and reality TV stars, but are nonetheless divorced from the reality of hips and limp hair), he said:

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy, which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man. She’s so retouched, so airbrushed, without any human response at all, and, well, you don’t really want to fuck a doll.

(This doesn’t answer your question, but I read it today and found it interesting and relevant.)