ok..let me start out by saying nothing in this post is meant to be mean or judgemental, but it is really for an understanding....this can easily be men and not women...but i heard this stat when this show was being tested and i thought then about this and then again tonight when the show premiered....
The average woman on a dating show is a size 2
The average AMERICAN woman is a size 14/16 (did notice they specified American)
doesn't this seem very lopsided?
i understand the size 2 for most dating shows, they want ratings, they want the supermodel look...even in our industry small petite woman seem to be the norm....we have girls like Gianna Michaels, who in my opinion is not large by any means, shes a woman with curves, meat on her bones....and a very attractive woman, Brandy Talore is another, and the list can go on...but these women are more curvy or larger than most (just look at our title "Soft In The Middle"...a movie filled with women that i would not consider by any means large...yeah larger than a petite girl)..but you cant say all the girls in our industry are 2's..i can think of plenty of 5-8 (maybe higher, dont know the sizes that well)
but to jump from a 2 to a 14/16 seems very extreme...can this really be true? Why? is the American diet that screwed up that you are either a 2, constantly working out and eating so differently, or a 14/16?...Maybe this show was just showing the old saying "Big girls need lovin' too"...and i respect that...but if that statistic is right, then isnt there a bigger problem with the foods we eat?...is it a depression thing?...cant loose the baby weight, if you had kids?...what is it?...why so drastic?
where are the girls that are say 5-9 in size? is there really more 14/16 women than what i thought (when i sold men & womens clothes and 7/9 seemed average) than middle numbers? Are sizes that different until you get in to higher numbers and many women are only a 14/16 because everything smaller is so close together that it doesnt really matter? Did womens sizes in clothing change? like the difference between a 2 and a 6 is not the same between a 9 and a 13...
i really find that stat kind of scary for no other reason than if this is really the case, then its a nail in the coffin of really how bad american diet has become...
again, i am really interseted, esp since i have been learning my personal diet and watching the foods i eat and found tons of crap in the foods i used to eat...
thoughts? comments? opinions? and again, im being 100% serious and not looking to judge or make anyone upset or defensive or even uncomfortable, just seemed that the average is higher than when i was growing up and wasnt bombarded by supermodel women..just normal average women...was it always 14/16 and im just finding this out now? I'm just trying to understand...
What about other countries besides America? Is this the average size of other countries?
yes smiley is not ranting, nor being opinionated....hes actually asking a real question...a thought provoking conversation is my goal... but again, i am asking on GFY so i expect a certain amount of jokes from this question....
