superodalisque
Well-Known Member
i was curious about the archetype of the fat woman as seen by Jung and Freud. and i ran across this
Personality Theory:
A Biosocial Approach
C. George Boeree, PhD
Psychology Department
Shippensburg University
idea:http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/ptinstinct.html
"These differences between the sexes is known as sexual dimorphism, and the process that leads to these differences is called sexual selection. Small functional differences between the sexes can become large nonfunctional ones over many generations. If female birds are instinctively inclined to prefer colorful males -- perhaps because colorful males have served to distract predators from ancestral females and their chicks -- then a male that is more colorful will have a better chance, and the female with a more intense attraction to color a better chance, and their offspring will inherit their colors and intense attraction to colors and so on and so on... until you reach a point where the colors and the attraction are no longer a plus, but become a minus, such as in the birds of paradise. Some males cannot even fly under the weight of all their plumage.
Human beings are only modestly dimorphic. But boy are we aware of the dimorphisms! Women tend to find tall, well-muscled men more attractive, for example. Men tend to like youth and nicely rounded softness attractive. An interesting odd detail comes to mind here: Youth and "nicely rounded softness" are slightly contradictory, since the young woman tends to be slender and "boyish", while the mature woman tends to develop a more "motherly" figure. Perhaps this plays a part in the cycles of women's fashion: One decade, women try to achieve rail thinness; the next they work on exaggerating their breasts or hips. In today's bizarre world of plastic surgery, we see thin women with disproportionately large breasts! Another odd detail is that, while women like a strong man, few are attracted to the overly-muscled body-builder types. The sociobiological explanation is a logical one: Too much of a good thing is a deviation from averageness, and a signal of mutation."
world wide fashion magazines etc... bemoan the fat epidemic.they base the idea on fat being the disease that is whipping it's way around the globe based on prosperity and access to food. but what if that isn't the real cause. what if people are becoming fatter because of natural selection and the preference over several generations that men in particular have for fatter and fatter women. after all wouldn't that result in fatter people as well? what if fat people are humanity's birds of paradise? what do you think?
Personality Theory:
A Biosocial Approach
C. George Boeree, PhD
Psychology Department
Shippensburg University
idea:http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/ptinstinct.html
"These differences between the sexes is known as sexual dimorphism, and the process that leads to these differences is called sexual selection. Small functional differences between the sexes can become large nonfunctional ones over many generations. If female birds are instinctively inclined to prefer colorful males -- perhaps because colorful males have served to distract predators from ancestral females and their chicks -- then a male that is more colorful will have a better chance, and the female with a more intense attraction to color a better chance, and their offspring will inherit their colors and intense attraction to colors and so on and so on... until you reach a point where the colors and the attraction are no longer a plus, but become a minus, such as in the birds of paradise. Some males cannot even fly under the weight of all their plumage.
Human beings are only modestly dimorphic. But boy are we aware of the dimorphisms! Women tend to find tall, well-muscled men more attractive, for example. Men tend to like youth and nicely rounded softness attractive. An interesting odd detail comes to mind here: Youth and "nicely rounded softness" are slightly contradictory, since the young woman tends to be slender and "boyish", while the mature woman tends to develop a more "motherly" figure. Perhaps this plays a part in the cycles of women's fashion: One decade, women try to achieve rail thinness; the next they work on exaggerating their breasts or hips. In today's bizarre world of plastic surgery, we see thin women with disproportionately large breasts! Another odd detail is that, while women like a strong man, few are attracted to the overly-muscled body-builder types. The sociobiological explanation is a logical one: Too much of a good thing is a deviation from averageness, and a signal of mutation."
world wide fashion magazines etc... bemoan the fat epidemic.they base the idea on fat being the disease that is whipping it's way around the globe based on prosperity and access to food. but what if that isn't the real cause. what if people are becoming fatter because of natural selection and the preference over several generations that men in particular have for fatter and fatter women. after all wouldn't that result in fatter people as well? what if fat people are humanity's birds of paradise? what do you think?
