'thigh gap'?

VeganSurfer

<----I think I have one?
feet and knees together and thighs apart.
I don't see what is attractive or not attractive about it though? its just.... there.

Gorgeous legs!

carolmcgov

<----I think I have one?
feet and knees together and thighs apart.
I don't see what is attractive or not attractive about it though? its just.... there.

Gorgeous legs!

Thanks hun, I don't think they're anything special though, a little bit boyish even, my legs are the last place I gain weight and the first place I lose it, which is annoying because if I am carrying any extra weight I look top heavy

geebusuk

I can't believe anybody would do anything "because men like it on a girl." The idea of that is completely sickening to me.

One of the reasons I exercise, do weights and the like is because generally "women like it on a man".
And if I had a partner, I'd have no problem with making any effort to be attractive for her.

What's your position on a girl putting make up on for a date?

As for the OP (I didn't read every page, may have been mentioned); may be a bit of an evolutionary 'baby bearing hips' thing?
Me, happy either way .

katy_trail

Thigh gaps are cool if you can rock one because of your wide hips. They're not cool if you have one because you're legs are too damned bony.

the last time I had a thigh gap, I was about 7. So when I was 10 I had wide hips? :huh:
No.....My thighs were bulky! yes that's it!:noway:

BinaryPulsar

Something I have noticed is that people with a thigh gap at the top of the thighs usually have knees that touch. My knees do not touch, I have a gap, all the way till the very top (unless I stick my butt out, which I don't do). So, it does seem to have a lot to do with the way in which the leg bones are positioned in the sockets).

spacemuffins

Something I have noticed is that people with a thigh gap at the top of the thighs usually have knees that touch. My knees do not touch, I have a gap, all the way till the very top (unless I stick my butt out, which I don't do). So, it does seem to have a lot to do with the way in which the leg bones are positioned in the sockets).

a lot photos of people with a "thigh gap" don't actually have one, they're just sticking out their bum a bit and voila, gap! Not that this is an insult, as having a thigh gap isn't an achievement. Just a question of bone structure. But like photo-shopped photos of models, photos of thigh gaps which are just a question of angle are harmful and further encouraging people to strive after an ideal that is simply impossible because even the people we're trying to look like, don't look like that.

Tbh I think it's not healthy to have an obsession with negative spaces, spaces where you're not taking up room and being less.

spacemuffins

I can't believe anybody would do anything "because men like it on a girl." The idea of that is completely sickening to me.

One of the reasons I exercise, do weights and the like is because generally "women like it on a man".
And if I had a partner, I'd have no problem with making any effort to be attractive for her.

What's your position on a girl putting make up on for a date?

As for the OP (I didn't read every page, may have been mentioned); may be a bit of an evolutionary 'baby bearing hips' thing?
Me, happy either way .

Personally I think the issue is when a woman is saying "I want to look a certain way" and then a man jumps in saying "as a man I just want to say men prefer a woman with curves/ women who look like x so there's no need to lose/gain weight" or a woman wears a lot of makeup and men decide to say "oh there's no need to make that effort because men prefer a natural look" because it's like the assumption is there that women care about what men think or are doing it for the men, does that make sense? Like damn not everything is about the men.

(Also surveys and studies have shown that most of the time the people women are trying to impress aren't men, it is other women. I have noticed that a lot of women I know are self-critical and compare themselves to other women and are almost competing with them, and not doing anything because of a desire to be appealing to men )

Tatonka_usn

Had never even heard of this silliness before noticing this thread yesterday. Concurrently, there was a story online a friend of mine just posted, discussing the detrimental effects this idiotic craze can have on teen/tween girls. [http://the-mean-girl-extinction-project.com/2013/05/03/the-thigh-gap-a-new-and-dangerous-craze-girls-are-trying-to-fit-in/]. My own personal opinion is that we stop foisting this sort of standard on women of all ages. What does it honestly prove?

DalekBrittany

lol where has this thread gone to

geebusuk

(Also surveys and studies have shown that most of the time the people women are trying to impress aren't men, it is other women. I have noticed that a lot of women I know are self-critical and compare themselves to other women and are almost competing with them, and not doing anything because of a desire to be appealing to men )

But why are they trying to impress each other in the way they look, than for reasons that go back to an evolutionary sense of finding a better mate?

Of course, you could argue a man riding a motorbike in circles around a bit of tarmac with other men doing the same was pretty similar - and I'd argue I've only raced motorbikes purely because I enjoy it (but of course do I enjoy it because evolution dictated that those who enjoyed taking gaining skill in activities considered dangerous so they can do them well and survive were more likely to pass their genes on?)

A lot of "what women do" could be boiled down to the same. I tend to find women doing other things generally not considered stereotypically feminine more attractive; not sure what that says about me, however!

JDBLY11

There was a girl in middle school with me who was ethnic and she had very wide hips and a thigh gap. I thought it was so unattractive at the time. I thought she needed to gain some weight.

SerenaFisher

I have one, it hasn't changed my life in any good or bad way. It just is. :ohwell:

JacksMachine

Why not just try to be the best that you can. The best shape that you can and become this amazing speciman that you never thought you could. Forget about seeing veins or muscles or a "thigh gap" just be the best that you can and let yourself take whatever shape you're gonna take....Not a surmon...just a thought.

likitisplit

I think a woman would need to have very wide hips and slender legs, or just very, very skinny legs to achieve a thigh gap.

I didn't know thigh gaps existed until my husband and his gamer friends showed me a picture of a (fictional) video game character who was drawn to have very wide hips and a perfect triangle gap between her legs. It looked a little freakish! LOL They were attracted to it, for some reason. I have no idea why.

I can't remember who the character was. A WoW one, maybe?

A lot of Russian women have them - they have wide hips and thighs that go straight down instead of angling in like mine do. It's quite sexy. Of course, my meaty thighs are pretty sexy too.

brower47

'Thigh gap' seem to be the thing to have. Hardly fair as not all woman have the hips to achieve it.
But I don't really get it...who do you do this for? Do men like 'thigh gap' on a girl?
Same with size zero....do men like size 0 women?
I mean... is there anyone that really believes you get a higher status from those shapes even if they don't necessarily mean you're healthy?
What do you guys and girls think of this?

Some guys like it, some don't.

Some girls want it, some don't. (I fall into the latter category)

Some women can achieve it, some can't. Some of the ones that can and some of the ones that can't, will employ some very unhealthy food habits to achieve it.

Is it a good or bad thing? It's completely situation/individual dependent.

Are guys and girls that like it somehow depraved? No.

Katina3333

How funny... I'm pretty sure when I was in high school (way back when) thigh gaps were bad. People said that people with gaps had gotten around too much. lol Now its a sexy thing? I can't keep up... nor do I need to. If I end up with one, so be it, if I don't well then that's fine too. Not like I could do much about it anyways, right. lol

MagicalLeopleurodon

i have a thigh gap with 22" thighs. but i also have incredibly wide hips. i dont fwel special for it.

ChefTJP

My mother tells of her Personal Hygiene class in school. The teacher told all of the girls that you know you're the right weight when you can fit your fist between your thighs.

Ah, gotta love 1950s classes, right?

I've had a fist between my thighs before...I mean...what?

hahahahahahahaha

wswilliams67

MireyGal76

sigh...

I like that I don't wear my inner thigh seam out nearly so fast. Do I have a gap? When it counts.

size 0? Don't think guys check your tags before they decide to date you.
I'll never be a 0 because I am tall. Don't think that matters much either.

My goal:
- be strong
- be confident in my own skin buck naked
- walk with my head held high because I did what I never thought I could.

goal reached*

well mostly... some times the second bullet is iffy

neacail

One of the things I missed the most about my "old" body during my fat days was my thigh gap. I'm am so thankful it is back.

I don't think it looks great. I just couldn't get used to my thighs rubbing together. I wasn't able to wear skirts or dresses for four years as a result of this. It nearly made me insane.

970Mikaela1

My mother tells of her Personal Hygiene class in school. The teacher told all of the girls that you know you're the right weight when you can fit your fist between your thighs.

Ah, gotta love 1950s classes, right?

I've had a fist between my thighs before...I mean...what?

BOOM;)

whierd

Meh, I could take or leave it.

BeachIron

I'd volunteer to fill the gap if I thought it would kill this thread

mikurulove10

I personally think the whole "thigh gap" hype is ridiculous. I admittedly used to be dying for a thigh gap, until I realized that not only is it really difficult to achieve, but as far as I know, nobody really CARES. Also, if you have a thigh gap, and you drop food, it'll just sink through and fall on the floor instead of on your lap ;__;

ldrosophila

Best way to get a thigh gap is a nice case of rickets

likitisplit

I'd volunteer to fill the gap if I thought it would kill this thread

Damn. I just wish I had one then.

_the_feniks_

Only two times I'm going to notice a girl's thigh gap. OK, three. It would make a great beer koozie.

Candi_land

5erious

Best way to get a thigh gap is a nice case of rickets

u jelly?