Question for the straight guys: when is a woman too skinny to be attractive?

[XemaSab]

Poll question: Question for the straight guys: when is a woman too skinny to be attractive?

Women are free to comment, but I would prefer to have only straight males voting in the poll because theirs is the only opinion that matters. I kid! I kid! :D

But at what point do you look at a woman and go "ew."

[mainegreen]

1. Every woman is unique and can't be pigeonholed by such simple rules.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[flvegan]

2. Never. "Attractive" on a physical level is secondary.

I'd dig the Kate Moss look if it was linked to an attitude and brain that I could REALLY dig.

[XemaSab]

4. What about the Queen Latifah look?

:shrug:

[slj0101]

3. When you can see bones & tendons.

But I agree, it all depends on a person's shape. There is no one standard to go by.

[Lex]

5. Someone will have to do a "When is a guy too much of a judgmental asshole" poll.

nt

[XemaSab]

8. I'm asking because some of the women at the Oscars look scary

Also, I live in Southern California and every day I see women where *I* think they would look great with another 10... 20... or 30 pounds.

I think the attitude on the part of women is "the thinner the better" but if you look at fashion models versus Playboy Playmates, the Playmates are much more substantial.

(As an aside, women my age (30) are getting BOTOX!!! :scared: )

[Radical Activist]

6. Your poll is too girly.

What I mean is that, you're describing skinny in ways that women would describe being skinny, but not in ways that a man would. How would I know if a woman can look down and see her toes? I'm not sure how to answer your poll.

My usual answer is that I don't want a woman who looks like a 13 year old boy. That's just my preference.

[XemaSab]

9. Right on

:D

[SPKrazy]

7. I've Been Attracted To All Kinds Of Physical Types

I am not turned on by the skeletal look

I think that a woman's attractiveness actually glows from the inside.

I've seen skinny women who by strict physical standards (symmetry, etc) would be "attractive" who were not because they weren't attractive women on the inside

I've seen overweight women who were beautiful on the inside and that shone through and ....

I'm not sure how to say it other than beauty is an inside job.

:shrug:

[sakabatou]

10. When you can see her facial bones

ribs and leg bones. Her skin is pasty and her hair would come out in clumps due to poor diet.

[SOteric]

11. This is size-ism!! Just because my elbows are registered as lethal weapons

doesn't mean I don't like hot sauce. :cry:

[jpgray]

12. Unless it's unhealthy, all sizes can be fine

Just depends on the person. I find it weird that some DUers would be trekking through subsaharan Africa and saying "Look at all the people who are tooooo skinny!!"

[Nikia]

13. I realize that my opinion is warped

Because of my eating disorder, which I am recovering from, now being "normal" weight.
What are those of us to do though who can be both too thin and too fat for a bikini at the same time. When I was a little thinner, I looked at myself in a bikini and saw all my ribs sticking out but yet I saw a big roll of fat on my stomach.

[entanglement]

14. I find the anorexic fashion model look repulsive - very hard to be attracted to

someone that looks diseased / unhealthy.

[TheBaldyMan]

15. OTHER: too skinny when she stops looking healthy.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, real men like them all.

I like curvy and slender women.

I don't care how big/small your boobs are.

I don't care what colour you are.


The only turnoff I have is politics, I find myself backing away from conservatives.

[DBoon]

16. A woman is too skinny when..

she sacrifices her health or happiness to stay skinny

[XemaSab]

17. That describes a lot of women

:P

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

20. Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!

:thumbsup: Best answer I've seen yet. +1 good sir.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. When she's smaller around than my

ah, never mind.

:P

[Pushed To The Left]

19. Attractive women come in all shapes and sizes

from waifs to BBWs!

[Dude_CalmDown]

21. Other - a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman. Skinny, Fat, - if she grabs you're heart...

...she can't be defined by adjectives.

[LostInAnomie]

22. Once it goes beyond naturally skinny.

Some women naturally have very thin frames, and naturally they will have a very thin body type. When the thinness does not match their frame it starts to become unattractive to me.