“Fat Actress” Is Most Desirable Woman
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It seems that just yesterday Jennifer Lawrence was deemed a fat actress — in Hollyweird, anyway. But now she’s been named “Most Desirable Woman” by more than 2.4 million AskMen readers. Also on the list were her sisters in non-starvation, Christina Hendricks and Kim Kardashian.
But actually, different sizes, shapes, colors and ages are on this list, too. And in a truly revolutionary move:
These men were tasked with voting on more than just sex appeal, taking into account character, intelligence, talent, sense of humor, professional success, achievements in 2012 and potential for 2013.
And as a result, “a new breed of women have changed the definition of ‘desirability’” read one headline.
And so the list includes non-voluptuous celebs with Mila Kunis at #2, along with Kristen Stewart and Kate Middleton.
Women of different colors were named: Rihanna, Selena Gomez and Lucy Liu, among them.
You needn’t be a classic beauty, either. Check out Emma Stone and Claire Danes, who got her start playing a very ordinary teen.
Even the over-40 set was lauded, including Sofia Vergara, Sarah Silverman and Rachel Weisz.
Powerful women were also among the most desirable, including Michelle Obama, Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo! and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the Russian activist-punk group Pussy Riot.
As feminism has spread men have become less intimidated by, and more appreciative of, strong women. James Bassil, the Editor-In-Chief of AskMen, put it this way:
The top-rated women on AskMen’s 12th edition of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women list speaks to men’s growing comfort with strong and independent partners.
It speaks to men’s growing confidence in themselves, as well.
I’m not thrilled about ranking women. But perhaps this varied list that moves beyond looks will encourage more women to move outside the one-dimensionality of narrow beauty norms and help us to broaden and grow greater confidence in ourselves, too.
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Posted on December 12, 2012, in body image, feminism, men, psychology, women and tagged AskMen Most Desirable Woman, body image, feminism, men, psychology, women. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
I think you hint at one of the most important things here. What answer you get will depend on what question you ask.
Many stereotypes and damaging prejudices can be maintained and supported by asking leading questions. So the gutter media, who thrive by exploiting ignorance and bigotry, can ask questions like “who’s got the best tits”, or “which guy gets laid more?” and then make out that this was all the interviewees were interested.
Yes. It’s nice to see the questions expanding into something that’s actually substantive, important.
Nice to see diversity of all kinds in this ranking.
**This might seem revolutionary after the wave of extreme anorexia in women that continues to permeate the media; however, Jennifer Lawrence, Christina Hendricks, and Kim Kardashian still have very idealized bodies. They are still slender women. It’s nice to see that anorexia isn’t being totally praised, and I think this definitely could be a step in the right direction. Or it could be a step in the direction that women are expected to have idealized bodies in another way, like Hendricks, Lawrence, and Kardashian, who are all thin, but have curves in the right places, like curvy hips and breasts. Most women I know gain weight in their stomach or legs, unless they’re lucky enough for their bodies to naturally fit the standard of beauty.**
When we take a real step forward is when we start acknowledging that there is no real ideal, there is nothing to be attained because everyone is different, when we can recognize that striving to be identical to someone else is ridiculous, especially to the point where it compromises one’s health. And living in a time when movie stars have to defend themselves from being called fat when they are still a billion times more suited to an ideal than most people, still eons from being even near overweight, we have a very long way to go.
There is definately still more room for expansion.
Great to hear that men are more appreciative of strong women a step forward of understanding that women can do anything they set there mind to. jennifer Lawerence deemed as an fat actress PLEASE! hollywood needs to stop! Every women thats curvy, fat, ETC… is BEAUTIFUL!
I found this story from different website. The writer of the other article had different opinion. Your article is titled as ‘“Fat Actress” Is Most Desirable Woman’, and talks about how views on woman are changed. I once again think how important that culture and society influence people. Because the articled talked about the reason why this actress was top ranked is because she hasen’t had any kind of scandal for four years. The country I came from expects pure and innocence from actress. If actress were in some kind of scandal with a man, she is most likely to lose a lot of fans. I found it very interesting that how different culture and society can see things in so totally different ways.