rodgerd

And that's the point, innit? The tastes of real people in the real world are quite different to mass-media images.

Women often seem more critical of themselves, but that's hardly surprising, given the size of the diet, cosmetic, etc, industries trying undermine self image to sell you stuff.

I've seen a couple of surveys which suggested women have quite different perspectives on what an attractive body is; essentially groups of men and women are given a set of pictures nude female bodies, from the neck down, and ask to rate them as underweight, overweight, ideal, etc.

The women in the surveys were alarmingly skewed toward seeing very skinny women as idea at the same time the men in the survey rated those images as too thin; women were rating as overweight the bodies men considered ideal.

Of course, surveys are surveys, and both these had fairly small samples (in the hundreds).