Comments on: Como se dice…Formerly? http://www.formerlyhot.com/2010/02/como-se-diceformerly/ The tween site for adults Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:44:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: hugh http://www.formerlyhot.com/2010/02/como-se-diceformerly/comment-page-1/#comment-2024 hugh Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:48:09 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=1119#comment-2024 That Benadryl is an amazing drug. Should probably be illegal. So, I wonder, is it a Culebran custom to photograph the administration of shots to a woman's butt? Well, maybe there's something more to beauty than the various physical characteristics that you focus on. Maybe it's something that the tropical breeze elicits in one even when she doesn't realize it's happening. Or maybe it's the glow the emanates from a proud, successful woman accompanied on vacation by her happy family. Or perhaps it's the immanence radiating from all creatures who have attained a sense of freedom. Or, it could be that those crazy islanders are just really into itchy, groggy, doped up gals sauntering down the street. That Benadryl is an amazing drug. Should probably be illegal. So, I wonder, is it a Culebran custom to photograph the administration of shots to a woman’s butt? Well, maybe there’s something more to beauty than the various physical characteristics that you focus on. Maybe it’s something that the tropical breeze elicits in one even when she doesn’t realize it’s happening. Or maybe it’s the glow the emanates from a proud, successful woman accompanied on vacation by her happy family. Or perhaps it’s the immanence radiating from all creatures who have attained a sense of freedom. Or, it could be that those crazy islanders are just really into itchy, groggy, doped up gals sauntering down the street.

]]> By: alanb http://www.formerlyhot.com/2010/02/como-se-diceformerly/comment-page-1/#comment-2017 alanb Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:02:04 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=1119#comment-2017 No myth... it's true that, in parts of Mauritania, women are overfed (forcibly, from childhood onwards) in order to be considered more "beautiful." It's also true that it isn't rotundity per se that makes the women attractive, so much as what the rotundity represents. The fat woman’s form, it is to be presumed, reflect her family’s wealth in a land generally besieged by drought and undernourishment (wealth which will, it is to be further presumed, inure to the benefit of the prospective groom). This long-standing Mauritanian cultural practice (which the government has recently been rallying against, due to the serious consequences faced by the women) has shaped their aesthetic leanings towards fuller females, but we may take (cold) comfort in the knowledge that their craving for corpulent women—borne as it is out of class-consciousness—is no less facile that any American predilection for slender, well-toned women... ...whose form, it is perhaps to be presumed, reflects (i) the 'wealth' which paid for her gym membership, and her non-fast-food diet, and (ii) the real or imagined will-power, determination and overall ‘good breeding’ that enabled her to pursue a life of fitness (we live, after all, in a society that associates weight gain more with sloth than with trans fats, high-fructose corn syrup and otherwise-processed foods)... No myth… it’s true that, in parts of Mauritania, women are overfed (forcibly, from childhood onwards) in order to be considered more “beautiful.”

It’s also true that it isn’t rotundity per se that makes the women attractive, so much as what the rotundity represents. The fat woman’s form, it is to be presumed, reflect her family’s wealth in a land generally besieged by drought and undernourishment (wealth which will, it is to be further presumed, inure to the benefit of the prospective groom).

This long-standing Mauritanian cultural practice (which the government has recently been rallying against, due to the serious consequences faced by the women) has shaped their aesthetic leanings towards fuller females, but we may take (cold) comfort in the knowledge that their craving for corpulent women—borne as it is out of class-consciousness—is no less facile that any American predilection for slender, well-toned women…

…whose form, it is perhaps to be presumed, reflects (i) the ‘wealth’ which paid for her gym membership, and her non-fast-food diet, and (ii) the real or imagined will-power, determination and overall ‘good breeding’ that enabled her to pursue a life of fitness (we live, after all, in a society that associates weight gain more with sloth than with trans fats, high-fructose corn syrup and otherwise-processed foods)…

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