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Guide for the Married Man---Interesting choice of movie! I love this one for the wit and the curiously moral underpinning (considering it's Hollywood). The lovely Inger Stevens would be considered fat these days, as would most of the tootsies in this movie. Another movie I like is "Where the Boys Are", which decries the naivte of women about men, a movie feminists ought to watch. And dauthers, too.

What men find beautiful is endlessly fascinating to women. I found the recent Victoria's Secret show distressing not because so many beautiful women were present for the delectation of men, but because I thought the most (not all) of the "women" has masculinized proportions, like a middle-school boys basketball team (with the regulation silicone, size small, tacked on as an afterthought). It is disheartening to think one must compete with a hairless adolescent boy.

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What is even morew disheartening is how an entire generation (and maybe more) of young girls now think that they are "too fat", and thus have unbelievable problems with anorexia and bulimia.

As this thread shows, real men like natural, healthy, CURVY women who LOOK LIKE women! (wow, big shock there!). It is the fashion industry, along with the motion picture industry, that has pushed the "thin is in" view on women, to the detriment of us all.

I go on "movie geek" sites a lot...movies are a hobby of mine. On one, a photo of Cameron Diaz was recently posted, wearing a swimsuit in an upcoming movie. She looked positively boyish and, frankly, UGLY. In the thread that followed the post, the VAST MAJORITY of the males who responded (and this was movie geeks of all ages and types) denounced her broomstick figure. Thus, it would seem that no matter HOW hard they try, Hollywood cannot override preprogrammed instincts.

The trouble is, girls growing up in the shadow of all this, and with the normal insecurities that all adolescents face, are particularly susceptible to the effects of it.