FatAndProud
Well-Known Member
This is from a dating site (I don't want to give the link because of promotion or whatever). I found it to be interesting. It's not an official study, but numbers don't lie! So, based on the personality quizzes, data was gathered:
Remember, the women themselves select their body-descriptions; the bubbles show the size of each group. Though many of the words are just a shade of meaning apart, there are dramatic differences in the traits of the people who choose them. Go through the animation and compare full-figured to curvy or skinny to thin.
It's particularly interesting to isolate skinnya deprecating way to say something generally considered positive (being thin)and curvyan empowering way to say something generally considered negative (being heavy). Here are those bubbles' complete paths across the graph:
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Curvy women pass skinny ones in self-confidence at age 29 and never look back. They also consistently have the highest sex drive among the groups. Curvy, as a word, has the strongest sensual overtones of all our self-descriptions. So we're getting a little insight into the real-world implications of a label.
This is the "complete path" plot for men:
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Things to notice: (1) almost no men choose curvy or full-figured as self-descriptions, so those words aren't plotted here; (2) men of all body types have roughly the same peak sex drive; (3) and the thing that matters most for guys is simply to not be overweight. The other four body types are clustered relatively together at most ages.
Remember, the women themselves select their body-descriptions; the bubbles show the size of each group. Though many of the words are just a shade of meaning apart, there are dramatic differences in the traits of the people who choose them. Go through the animation and compare full-figured to curvy or skinny to thin.
It's particularly interesting to isolate skinnya deprecating way to say something generally considered positive (being thin)and curvyan empowering way to say something generally considered negative (being heavy). Here are those bubbles' complete paths across the graph:
View attachment 101530
Curvy women pass skinny ones in self-confidence at age 29 and never look back. They also consistently have the highest sex drive among the groups. Curvy, as a word, has the strongest sensual overtones of all our self-descriptions. So we're getting a little insight into the real-world implications of a label.
This is the "complete path" plot for men:
View attachment 101531
Things to notice: (1) almost no men choose curvy or full-figured as self-descriptions, so those words aren't plotted here; (2) men of all body types have roughly the same peak sex drive; (3) and the thing that matters most for guys is simply to not be overweight. The other four body types are clustered relatively together at most ages.
