Kurgan wrote:
Men don't want fat women because fat women are less fertile.
They're just as fertile as thin women. They have complications with birth and fetal development however. Very different things although the end result is inclined to agree that thin women do give birth to more babies than fat women.
ArrantPariah wrote:
Speaking of the beauty standards of our remote ancestors
*Venus Figurine Image*
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With the Venus of Willendorf, again we see how mere survival is a part of their culture. It is commonly thought that these statues represent fertility, or the ideal woman that would be able to reproduce.
In some countries today, such as some South Pacific island nations, fat chicks are much preferred over thin. If you're a fat woman in need of love, then go to Tonga or Samoa. You will probably end up being married to a big, strong, good-looking rugby player.
The venus figurine has been debated for decades. All artwork of the era depicting humans is crude compared to how they depicted the animals they relied on. Aka the cave paintings show elk and other prey animals in exquisite detail yet humans are shown as stick figures. Animal figurines are also found with exquisite detail yet the only human form figurines found so far that I'm aware of are that of pregnant women. The debate then is... if our ancestors put so little focus on human figures and so much on animal figures then they put their energy into the PRACTICAL. A pregnant women was as important as a prey animal for their survival.
...and the figure of the pregnant women are always in the same 'very pregnant' shape with dropping, very enlarged breasts and chubbed thighs.. but the arms and legs, face and neck area are 'thin'. Very unusual.
Unusual until you realize that if it is the woman herself who is making the figuring , from the POV of her looking down at her body... then the figure matches the POV of the artist. A male artist making the figurine would, following their practical 'what I see is what I make' mentality, have made a more accurate figure.
Remember too women of that era would get pregnant relatively young. Breasts of that size and droopy-ness would match older women (old in that time would have been late 20s, early 30s). A young woman (~14 to 22) which were the bulk of the pregnant population would not have such 'gravity wear'. Not even modern bushmen/nomad African and Eurasian populations display this (aka they dont use bras and have a very active physical labor lifestyle).