As if our beauty standards weren't arbitrary enough, there's been a new regulation introduced to its ever-shrinking confines.
Introducing thigh gap: the creepy, and inexplicable obsession of sexy people all over the Western Hemisphere!
It used to be that a person's hotness could be determined through such straightforward means as: establishing facial symmetry, or calibrating stomach flatness. (it doesn't count if you're sucking in!) Gone are the days, when the markers of beauty were limited to a sufficiently adorable nose, or a sufficiently white mother. It seems we have now reached the age of the Mandatory Thigh Gap.
Thigh gap, or that gap between a skinny woman's thighs, was covertly inducted into the Official Hall of Beauty standards, sometime in 2013. (Apparently, while I was in the shower.)
And like all healthy people, I am still coming to terms with this development. Over a second lunch.
The first time the notion of a thigh gap crossed my consciousness (though not in those terms) was when I was in middle school. A girl complimented me on mine and I was left utterly bewildered and uncomfortable. Middle school.
ReplyDeletewhat are you serious?? then again, thin parts have always been in. this recent wave of thigh gap envy, seems to be a new trend though. (the article i linked to was from a couple days ago.)
ReplyDeleteBut aside from that, being complimented for possessing a gap in your thighs, seems like the most bizarre thing ever.. (um thanks? I put it there myself.)