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	<title>Comments on: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: fattening up</title>
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		<title>By: Futuremarine'smom</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37567</link>
		<author>Futuremarine'smom</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>The Mauritania link isn't working for me</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Mauritania link isn&#8217;t working for me</p>
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		<title>By: University Update - Diabetes - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: fattening up</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37568</link>
		<author>University Update - Diabetes - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: fattening up</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>[...] Nile Virus                       Link to Article                diabetes Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: fattening up &#187;  Posted at [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Nile Virus                       Link to Article                diabetes Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: fattening up &#187;  Posted at [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Steve-o</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37570</link>
		<author>Steve-o</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37570</guid>
					<description>"Mohamed el-Moktar Ould Salem, a 52-year-old procurement officer, blames the brightly colored, head-to-toe mulafas that hide all but the most voluptuous female curves for shaping the men’s preferences. A slender woman, he said, “just looks like a stick wrapped up.”

This calls for some wet mulafas' contests!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Mohamed el-Moktar Ould Salem, a 52-year-old procurement officer, blames the brightly colored, head-to-toe mulafas that hide all but the most voluptuous female curves for shaping the men’s preferences. A slender woman, he said, “just looks like a stick wrapped up.”</p>
<p>This calls for some wet mulafas&#8217; contests!</p>
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		<title>By: neo-neocon</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37583</link>
		<author>neo-neocon</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Futuremarine'smom: I fixed the link.  Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Futuremarine&#8217;smom: I fixed the link.  Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Buck Smith</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37595</link>
		<author>Buck Smith</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37595</guid>
					<description>This reminds of a great, 70s reggae song Fatty, Fatty by the Heptones.  Lyrics:

I need a fat girl, fat girl, fat girl tonight...
Cause I'm in the mood, mood, I'm in the mood
I'm feeling rude, rude, I'm feeling rude
I need some food...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This reminds of a great, 70s reggae song Fatty, Fatty by the Heptones.  Lyrics:</p>
<p>I need a fat girl, fat girl, fat girl tonight&#8230;<br />
Cause I&#8217;m in the mood, mood, I&#8217;m in the mood<br />
I&#8217;m feeling rude, rude, I&#8217;m feeling rude<br />
I need some food&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: gcotharn</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37610</link>
		<author>gcotharn</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37610</guid>
					<description>Marisa Tomei said she was never so attractive to men as when she gained 20-30 pounds for 
"The Perez Family".  Men were so taken with her - so much more than normal - that she seriously considered keeping the weight on.  But, needing clothes to look good on her on film, she decided to lose the weight.

I have found this to be true for most of the men I know:  the skinny, ballet dancer look is not their  most preferred look.  

Luckily - for a possibly skinny neo - being a beautiful person is way more important than exterior packaging!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marisa Tomei said she was never so attractive to men as when she gained 20-30 pounds for<br />
&#8220;The Perez Family&#8221;.  Men were so taken with her - so much more than normal - that she seriously considered keeping the weight on.  But, needing clothes to look good on her on film, she decided to lose the weight.</p>
<p>I have found this to be true for most of the men I know:  the skinny, ballet dancer look is not their  most preferred look.  </p>
<p>Luckily - for a possibly skinny neo - being a beautiful person is way more important than exterior packaging!</p>
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		<title>By: Ymarsakar</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37629</link>
		<author>Ymarsakar</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Petite, not skinny. The bone size and length adds a sizable weight modification to folks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Petite, not skinny. The bone size and length adds a sizable weight modification to folks.</p>
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		<title>By: BBW</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37635</link>
		<author>BBW</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37635</guid>
					<description>Last year, the Discovery Channel presented a program entitled "Fat Fiancee":

“For the Hima people of western Uganda, fat is beautiful - at least for women. Men measure a woman's attractiveness by her obesity, and a young woman is prepared for marriage in ways guaranteed to "fatten her up": the least possible activity and the most possible food. By the time of her marriage, the young woman may be so fat that she cannot walk, only waddle. At the wedding, onlookers comment on how beautiful she is, noting with approval the cracks in her skin caused by the fatness and the difficulty with which she walks. Once married, a wife is kept fat by consuming surplus milk from the cowherd - often coerced to do so by her husband long past the point of satiation. The wife leads a life of "leisure" - she is assigned no heavy physical work, rarely leaves home and spends her days in sexual liaisons with a variety of men approved by her husband. These sexual relationships cement economic ones: the obese, conspicuously consuming wife is both a symbol and an instrument of her husband's economic prosperity.”

Here's more: http://somewhereistan.blogspot.com/2006/05/bountiful-brides.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last year, the Discovery Channel presented a program entitled &#8220;Fat Fiancee&#8221;:</p>
<p>“For the Hima people of western Uganda, fat is beautiful - at least for women. Men measure a woman&#8217;s attractiveness by her obesity, and a young woman is prepared for marriage in ways guaranteed to &#8220;fatten her up&#8221;: the least possible activity and the most possible food. By the time of her marriage, the young woman may be so fat that she cannot walk, only waddle. At the wedding, onlookers comment on how beautiful she is, noting with approval the cracks in her skin caused by the fatness and the difficulty with which she walks. Once married, a wife is kept fat by consuming surplus milk from the cowherd - often coerced to do so by her husband long past the point of satiation. The wife leads a life of &#8220;leisure&#8221; - she is assigned no heavy physical work, rarely leaves home and spends her days in sexual liaisons with a variety of men approved by her husband. These sexual relationships cement economic ones: the obese, conspicuously consuming wife is both a symbol and an instrument of her husband&#8217;s economic prosperity.”</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s more: <a href="http://somewhereistan.blogspot.com/2006/05/bountiful-brides.html" rel="nofollow">http://somewhereistan.blogspot.com/2006/05/bountiful-brides.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Fausta</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37673</link>
		<author>Fausta</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37673</guid>
					<description>As  Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective agency would say, "Not fat, but &lt;i&gt;traditionally built".&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As  Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective agency would say, &#8220;Not fat, but <i>traditionally built&#8221;.</i></p>
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		<title>By: michael i</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37803</link>
		<author>michael i</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-37803</guid>
					<description>To the degree a man's model of female appearance is formed by his mother's appearance and what his mother considered to be the standard of female beauty (especially during his childhood), we must conclude that women, not men, primarily determine the culture's standard of what is to be considered female beauty.

Here in the West we can look back on numerous eras in which the standard of female beauty swung away from the preferences of most men.  In the flapper era of the Roaring Twenties, women considered the flat chest to be stylish.  And was the bustle of an earlier era of women's fashion a trend led by men or women?  Today, most men prefer a woman about one or two typical short-term crash-diet weight loss goals heavier than the stick-figure models featured in the women's-interest magazines.  What gcotharn remarked about Marisa Tomei's experience of being more attractive to many men when she was 20-plus pounds heavier is not at all unusual.

&lt;blockquote cite="Women Can't Hear... by Warren Farrell, Tarcher/Putnam (1999) p228"&gt;   One day I received a call from Glamour magazine.  ... Here was the deal: I do the research; she [an editor at Glamour] does the writing Glamour style. Fine. So I did the research.

I found that many men felt sex was better with &lt;i&gt;less&lt;/i&gt;-attractive women. In one man's words, "The most attractive women I've been with have been the worst lovers." A few had good experiences with women who were a little overweight.

...But a top Glamour editor marked these very findings with "I'd drop this." Finally the entire piece was canned. The excuse? "Nothing original." ...Glamour isn't interested in selling slightly overweight, less-attractive women.

Warren Farrell, _Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say_
(speaking about what he said to a woman and how she refused to hear); Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, publishers (1999) page 228. (ellipses and bracketed text added)&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To the degree a man&#8217;s model of female appearance is formed by his mother&#8217;s appearance and what his mother considered to be the standard of female beauty (especially during his childhood), we must conclude that women, not men, primarily determine the culture&#8217;s standard of what is to be considered female beauty.</p>
<p>Here in the West we can look back on numerous eras in which the standard of female beauty swung away from the preferences of most men.  In the flapper era of the Roaring Twenties, women considered the flat chest to be stylish.  And was the bustle of an earlier era of women&#8217;s fashion a trend led by men or women?  Today, most men prefer a woman about one or two typical short-term crash-diet weight loss goals heavier than the stick-figure models featured in the women&#8217;s-interest magazines.  What gcotharn remarked about Marisa Tomei&#8217;s experience of being more attractive to many men when she was 20-plus pounds heavier is not at all unusual.</p>
<blockquote cite="Women Can't Hear... by Warren Farrell, Tarcher/Putnam (1999) p228"><p>   One day I received a call from Glamour magazine.  &#8230; Here was the deal: I do the research; she [an editor at Glamour] does the writing Glamour style. Fine. So I did the research.</p>
<p>I found that many men felt sex was better with <i>less</i>-attractive women. In one man&#8217;s words, &#8220;The most attractive women I&#8217;ve been with have been the worst lovers.&#8221; A few had good experiences with women who were a little overweight.</p>
<p>&#8230;But a top Glamour editor marked these very findings with &#8220;I&#8217;d drop this.&#8221; Finally the entire piece was canned. The excuse? &#8220;Nothing original.&#8221; &#8230;Glamour isn&#8217;t interested in selling slightly overweight, less-attractive women.</p>
<p>Warren Farrell, _Women Can&#8217;t Hear What Men Don&#8217;t Say_<br />
(speaking about what he said to a woman and how she refused to hear); Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, publishers (1999) page 228. (ellipses and bracketed text added)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Chubby Grannies Chubby Blonde Mature Chubby Mature Thumbs</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2007/07/07/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-fattening-up/#comment-50727</link>
		<author>Chubby Grannies Chubby Blonde Mature Chubby Mature Thumbs</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>&lt;strong&gt;Chubby Grannies Chubby Blonde Mature Chubby Mature Thumbs...&lt;/strong&gt;

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Chubby Grannies Chubby Blonde Mature Chubby Mature Thumbs&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view&#8230;</p>
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