The Country Club aesthetic.
The athletic aesthetic.
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I don’t know exactly where women got off track [or men became so fetishistic about anorexia], but the go-to aesthetic for successful older men appears to be very thin physiques.
I have several theories, which I know you just can’t wait to hear. [ahem…]
1] Many successful, older men were once wormy little bean counters nobody paid much attention to until they sold their shares of stock in the company they gave 20 years of their lives building, and then retired, divorced…and reinvented themselves as superheroes.
Such men prefer women who don’t remind them of what they once were, particularly now that they’re rich, entitled, and bigger than life.
Mindful of this, smaller women are less threatening, which feeds the man’s delusions of grandeur.
2] Successful older men who once played pro football and now own car dealerships tend to like physically small women because they crave control, and like knowing that the woman is submissive and willing to maintain the physique of a 12-year-old boy in exchange for lifestyle.
3] Couture fashion designs look better on small-framed women, which is a slam-dunk for galas, benefits and cocktail affairs of the rich and powerful where men parade their women like goats in Prada.
4] There is a notion floating around the collective unconscious of this socioeconomic niche that thin women are more cultured, educated, and generally speaking, intelligent.
This conveys to others in his world that she is in his arms by divine provenance.
In other words, if he didn’t himself possess the same qualities, she wouldn’t be with him.
5] Sex, Sex, Sex: Smaller woman make men look and feel bigger, which is a massive turn-on for men with control issues [most of them].
And while there exists in smaller numbers a closeted fetish for fuller-figured women with big asses, but most of them keep such fantasies in the closet alongside everything else they keep in there.
As for the men who truly crave nothing but very thin frames, they like knowing they can throw them around like rag dolls.
6] Reflecting the psychopathology of this aesthetic, women tell their personal trainers they want “tone, not muscle,” which only makes sense if you’re in this culture zone.
What they mean by this is they want a long, lean, low-fat figure that sells well in country clubs, and has store clerks tripping all over themselves at places like Chanel.
Men in possession of such women want a comprehensive “package” that never changes for the rest of their mortal lives, that’s all.
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NOTES
The woman in the second photograph is fit and muscular.
Unfortunately, her legs are too big for many high-end fashion designs, which means she can’t wear them; a clear breach of protocol.
Personally, the woman in the below photograph would be a slam-dunk for me, but I happen to like athletic women in Lycra because she could hold her own with me in a street fight against several assailants.
My perspective is obviously warped.