Since when do secondary sex characteristics denote beauty? Huh? Why are all the women in porno shaved, or most at least? Scary, I say. And seriously, at the first party I threw at my house I was talking about how the historical scale is now reversed, and those with money can afford to be thin while the poorer have to settle for fast food and tv dinners and wind up being horridly overweight, when my friend Jerry from 400 miles away strode in, plopped down on the couch, and yelled (in front of all my paraprofessional, uh, colleagues) "BITCH, BRING ME A CHICKEN POT PIE!" It was funny how every single one of them got up and said they really had to go all within a minute of each other. I mean, there was a queue to leave. I had to return a keg 95 percent full. But really it's nice that the beanpoles get their chance at being the queens, seeing as fat girls have had the rest of history to be the paragons of beauty. Not that this excuses eating disorders or anything. I really don't think the first thing that goes through a man's head when he sees a girl, consciously or unconsciously, is "God she could bear my offspring quite well couldn't she?" Though my sociobiology course contradicts that. Perhaps men now want a girl who =won't= bear any children. And you don't know about body image problems til you've been a man stuck with childbearing hips. Worse, a second-grader. Unnggh. I've come to accept that I'll never have a cowboy's ass. At least if you're a girl it's somewhat natural to have a pelvis like a wok. My favorite formative memory on body image was reading in Sassy an interview with J Mascis.... "How do you feel about girls with big asses?" "Any guy who's not weird will take as much as he can get." Ha! My dog loves rock and roll. And she's old! Whenever I really crank the stereo she just moves up and lays right by the subwoofer, and the only surefire way to get her in the house is to kick on my amp and play the most tinnitus-inducing guitar..... she runs (well sort of waddles) up and just puts her head right in the amplifier.... I'll test her response to TUBBYWARS tonight. She's easily the hippest 84-year-old I know. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+