Okay, so...


Which one do you consider more beautiful? Plump or skinny?


I really want guys to answer this question, 'cause it's their sincere opinion I want to hear.

Well, I'm not a guy, but I fall in love with girls. Does that count?

Yes. I don't want to hear only guys' opinions. Girls can comment too!

Hmm. Well, in a guy, he absolutely must have some muscle. I can't work with twiggy men, they make me feel like I might break them. But I don't mind if there's some meat as well, as long as it's not grotesque.

I dun fall for girls, but I think anorexic ones are objectively øgleh. I also think there's some truth in the saying "Men are like babies; they both like something to grab on to".

I'm a girl also. Though I don't look at girls that way...I think skinny is much uglier and more unnatural looking than too fat. Most of the models and conventionally "pretty"-people look like skeletons to me. *shudder* Eeewwwwww.

But beauty is really not necessarily dependent on weight. I saw a woman bellydancing once at a Renaissance Faire. On another woman her weight would have been perhaps verging on unpleasant, but she held herself with so much confidence (and danced unbelievably gracefully - she definitely outdanced ALL of the other, skinnier, bellydancers around her) that she was absolutely lovely.

I think it depends on carriage and self-confidence more than anything else.

So I’m a guy. And no one take this the wrong way because I’ve got jumped on for saying it before.

But fat is ugly.

And now that you have had time to think of sharp things to say to me, let me explain. When I say fat, I mean people who are far too fat and don’t try to do anything about it. The ones that sit about eating all day in front of a TV and then wonder why they are fat. I don’t think fat itself is a bad thing but the lifestyle beind some fat people is.

Like there’s this one fat girl who runs the track in my sixth period class with the rest of us. I can run much faster than her but I always stay with her because it helps to have someone to talk to and she really tries and runs the track. She doesn’t just walk and go “I can’t to it” and give up. So on her I don’t think fat is ugly because she’s a really great person. She always tries to not be as fat and excercises and doesn’t eat to much, but she doesn’t spend all her time thinking about that obsessively, and she always has a joke and is nice to everybody. She’s great and I think she is beautiful.

But on some other people its bad. Then there is skinny girls. I don’t usually like skinny girls. Some are really too skinny and I just feel bad that they are that insecure, but the ones that are skinny but still healthy I find that a lot of them are very mean. I see them talk to their friends and they say mean things about anyone who is not skinny. And they even say mean things behind each other’s backs, like to guys (some of them told them to me and my friends), about what is wrong with another.

But there are some skinny girls which are very nice, like for example the best friend of the girl I mentioned before is a cheerleader who is thin, but she always hangs out with her but not in that way which isn’t really a friendship. They really are best friends and do everything together.

So I guess what I mean with all this is that I think the person makes more difference than the fact that they are plump or skinny.

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Now, if you ask for which I would think is more beautiful without knowing a person, just a random girl, I think I would say somewhere between, but probably more curvy is better.

Well I'm a guy, but I'm known for looking at girls a different way than most of my peers. I mostly get hooked on a detail, like for instance, I went on a vacation camp and there was this girl, a bit skinny, without the "supermodel" look, but with a pair of the most beautiful grey eyes I have seen in a long time. It was attractive, but not because she was skinny or plump.

I don't really mind either, just not too extreme, fat is ugly and skelletons are ugly too, I just get hooked on a detail and the rest just alligns with that detail, making it beautiful and thereby making the girl look beautiful.

Thanks for your opinions, guys (and girls)! :D