Skip to comments.
The death of the ‘bikini body’ is the best thing to happen to fitness in the past decade
Well & Good ^
| Dec 3, 2019
| Zoe Weiner
Posted on 12/03/2019 2:00:46 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
In the days before you could order both groceries and magazine subscriptions online, it was damn near impossible to walk through a supermarket checkout line without seeing the term bikini body plastered on glossies at the newsstand. By todays standards, strapping two pieces of material onto any body fits the bill, but a decade ago, the term was still reserved for only those with six-pack abs and not an inch of perceived bodily "imperfection" in sight.
The definition was so narrow, the ideal so unattainable, that when actress and runway model Kate Upton appeared in a bikini on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover in 2012, people straight-up called her fat. Fast forward five years to when she appeared on the magazines cover again in 2017a year after Ashley Graham became the first curve model to cover the issueand that same body was criticized for not being diverse enough, proving just how much our definition of the bikini body has changed for the better over the last 10 years
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: ashleygraham; bikini; bikinibody; bodypositive; culturalmarxism; feminazism; fullbody; kateupton; obesity; sexy; sportsillustrated; zoeweiner
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-60, 61-80, 81-100 ... 121-124 next last
To: 9YearLurker
61
posted on
12/03/2019 4:06:35 PM PST
by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
To: Pelham
62
posted on
12/03/2019 4:09:32 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Like I said...’depressing’. We allowed the freaks to define deviancy down.
To: Pelham
very nice but:
My fantasy
To: where's_the_Outrage?
" By todays standards, strapping two pieces of material onto any body fits the bill, but a decade ago, the term was still reserved for only those with six-pack abs and not an inch of perceived bodily "imperfection" in sight."
Standards change along with society's economic and political positions.
Before the Industrial age, fat women(by the "bikini" standard) were very desirable.
But when food became cheap and even the lower class became obese, being "pleasingly plum" became out of fashion with the upper classes and set the standard to be thin.(selective exotic foods from distant lands became desirable)
The same thing with white people having tans. Before Industrial Revolution, having a pale, white skin was "en vogue" among the upper classes, Then, as women were interring the work force in sunless, bleak commercial and assembly line jobs, being pale meant working class poor.
Only the upper class had the wealth and time to lay about in the sun getting the "prefect tan'.
To: NativeSon
It might be his sister. The cigar smoking biker runs a lesbian book store or something.
66
posted on
12/03/2019 4:36:46 PM PST
by
Pelham
(Coup d'etat tickets available, dial 1 800 Obama)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Does Phoebe Cates know how much damage she has done to our delicate male psyches?
67
posted on
12/03/2019 4:38:39 PM PST
by
Pelham
(Coup d'etat tickets available, dial 1 800 Obama)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Same people ridicule “dad bod” and beer guts.
It’s all about the “abs”.
And women are aiming for men under themselves these days (with teachers preying on students and dating profiles cutting 10+ years off their ages).
68
posted on
12/03/2019 4:41:41 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
I'm totally stressed out from hunting down these pics
69
posted on
12/03/2019 4:42:27 PM PST
by
Pelham
(Coup d'etat tickets available, dial 1 800 Obama)
To: Chuckster
Here's a ton of chicks in bikinis:
70
posted on
12/03/2019 4:47:14 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: Lizavetta
fluffy, bbw, thick,...
And some get booty injections because they don’t fit “the norm” of fat ass.
71
posted on
12/03/2019 4:50:01 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: dennisw
72
posted on
12/03/2019 4:54:27 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
73
posted on
12/03/2019 4:58:21 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: higgmeister
They used to remind women to get ready for bikini season by hitting the gym after New Year’s,
74
posted on
12/03/2019 5:01:11 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: ReaganGeneration2
Penelope walked through the suitors. Their knees smote together, every man wanted to lay with her—The ODDESSY
Just my kind of woman till her husband came home and cleaned house.
To: Ouderkirk
Didnt realize it was Camel Toe Tuesday at FR...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I sense a trend born.
An FR tradition timeless, with any luck.
Bless you.
To: Pelham
I believe the female form is perfection, why ruin it with tattoos? And also looks silicon enhanced. Back to post #64.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
My six-pack looks like 30 cases of Schlitz.
78
posted on
12/03/2019 5:53:31 PM PST
by
Colt1851Navy
(What was wrong with Nixon?)
Comment #79 Removed by Moderator
Comment #80 Removed by Moderator
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-60, 61-80, 81-100 ... 121-124 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson