WTF is a thigh gap?

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  • _CowgirlUp_
    _CowgirlUp_ Posts: 585 Member
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    Thigh Gap = Urban Legend.
  • beekuzz
    beekuzz Posts: 428 Member
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    If you can go for a run in shorts without getting a friction rash on the inside of your thighs, you have a thigh gap.

    Very happily moving in that direction. The opposite is Chub Rub - Owww, it hurts.
  • BeingAwesome247
    BeingAwesome247 Posts: 1,171 Member
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    That's IT? Just that the thighs don't touch when a person stands with their feet together? I can't believe that's what all the fuss is about. Seems like there are a lot of physical results from getting fit; I don't see why that one is so desirable.

    Personally I find it desirable for purely logistical reasons...I want my thighs not to feel like they're going to start a fire when I run. I'm getting there...slowly.

    :laugh:
    EXACTLY
  • gingerjen7
    gingerjen7 Posts: 821 Member
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    That's IT? Just that the thighs don't touch when a person stands with their feet together? I can't believe that's what all the fuss is about. Seems like there are a lot of physical results from getting fit; I don't see why that one is so desirable.

    Personally I find it desirable for purely logistical reasons...I want my thighs not to feel like they're going to start a fire when I run. I'm getting there...slowly.
    I don't think that's the same aspiration, though. Unless you run like your on a balance beam, you don't need your thighs to not be touching one another when you stand with your feet together in order for them to not create friction when you run. If that makes sense. I think you can achieve what you're after without needing space between your thighs when your feet are together.
  • gingerjen7
    gingerjen7 Posts: 821 Member
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    Thigh Gap = Urban Legend.
    If I'm understanding it right, it's not an urban legend. When I stand with my feet together, my thighs don't touch unless I clench my butt cheeks and tilt my hips forward (and why would you ever do that; not the most attractive pose, that's for sure). I didn't think it was that big a deal; I still have a friend that makes fun of my "chicken legs" and I left middle school 16 years ago. Apparently some men don't mature in the humor department past the age of 14.
  • ktillotson14
    ktillotson14 Posts: 331
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    It is a casual apparel thigh that has struggled since the late 90's due to being sandwiched between a lower and higher sister company, those companies being Thigh Banana Republic and Thigh Old Navy.

    Thanks for making me lol :)
  • MonicaLee92
    MonicaLee92 Posts: 222
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    I never thought to much about it till I saw it on The Chive a lot. I realized that I use to have one but I no longer do. I think they're really hot on a female but everyone has their own opinion. Also not can have one it just depends on your bone structure. :drinker:
  • gddrdld
    gddrdld Posts: 464 Member
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    It is a casual apparel thigh that has struggled since the late 90's due to being sandwiched between a lower and higher sister company, those companies being Thigh Banana Republic and Thigh Old Navy.

    Middle class gap. )
  • belladonna786
    belladonna786 Posts: 1,165 Member
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    its what happens when you get a girl liquored up enough




    Ha!
  • WaltSeher
    WaltSeher Posts: 65
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    why anyone else cares what others want for their own body amazes me. Who cares? If its not for you, its not for you. If others want it, let them have at it and worry with getting your own body the way YOU want it.

    So if I'm a healthy weight, young girl (who the majority of "thigh gap desirous" people tend to be) and I decide to eat 500 calories a week to aim for that... then that's ok? There is a highhighHIGH association between "thigh gap" and "pro-ana/mia" communities and ED behaviors.

    Or, on the flip side, is it healthy for me to dislike my own body and desperately want a super thin, hipless figure if I HAVE wideset hips and that's never going to change? Body acceptance is different than body "desire"--thigh gap has EVERYTHING to do with the set of your hips and much less to do with your weight.


    Um, not sure why you would want to attack me. I merely stated to let people do what people want to do. In no way, shape or form was I promoting anorexia or anything else. That was QUITE the assumption. And WHERE pray tell did I EVER say one WORD about weight?!? I said worry not about others bodies and worry about your own. But, thanks for trying to put words in my mouth....

    On a more positive note, one HEALTHY way to get a thigh gap is to lose body fat.

    I just read this 5 times and didn't see an attack on you.

    excuse me, accusing me of being and/or promoting pro-ana, because people should worry about their own bodies. My bad. Maybe its not, but it seemed the same to me.


    ETA: hey, at least I didn't call her a bully, lol.

    Glad someone defended me before I had a chance to. I'm not sure how you made the jump from "thigh gaps have a huge association with people struggling with EDs and/or promoting EDs" to me accusing you of promoting those things...?

    I distinctly responded to you, because the concept of "People should worry about their own bodies" is exactly why the delusion of thigh gap being the end all, be all of thinness and beauty for some men and women is, well, dangerous. Yeah, people shouldn't worry about what others think of them, or judge other people... but if people are worrying about their own bodies using a body ideal that doesn't match their own... how is that a good thing?


    There was no need for anyone to defend anyone.

    From your statement "There is a highhighHIGH association between "thigh gap" and "pro-ana/mia" communities and ED behaviors."

    It appeared you were associating my let's all worry with our own bodies and not so much with others and what they want for themselves. Nowhere did I say it was ok, I just said worry about your own body.

    and you said "-thigh gap has EVERYTHING to do with the set of your hips and much less to do with your weight."

    Again, I not once mentioned anyone's weight. I did try to counter with a positive note that loss of body fat could help create a thigh gap....

    Lol, yes, I appreciate that other person defending me by pointing out I wasn't attacking you, because I cannot even begin to wrap my mind around how you thought my comments were an attack. You jumped to an assumption that was way off base.

    And yes, you pointed out "worry about your own body," and I pointed out that, well, that's kind of the core issue with people wanting a thigh gap and taking unhealthy measures to try and get it? They're worrying about their bodies?

    So, in short: it "appeared" to *you* that I was linking your comments with promoting anorexia. In my actual text, in every post I've written, I didn't do that. It does not matter if you mentioned weight or not--I was directly responding to the concept of "let everyone worry about their own bodies" that people wanting certain "looks" ARE worrying about their own bodies, and the "thigh gap" in particular is often an unhealthy goal for many people.

    I mean, yeah, lowering body fat can help achieve more of a "thigh gap"... and some people won't even in the healthy range because of how much it's determined on the set of hips.

    I think we have a big failure to communicate here.


    ok, I'll agree, *attack* was not the right word, but I am not the only one who made an assumption here. My original response was actually supposed to be a positive message, but got taken WAY out of context. I will agree there was a huge failure to communicate and comprehend what the other was trying to say going on here.

    Nope.

    Your big mistake here is that you seem to keep thinking I'm "debating" with you or taking anything you said out of context. I knew what you said; I understood what you said. I said something different in response.

    Ex: You said something "positive." I said, "Okay, but that mindset can also be used for a., b., etc."

    Apparently you are missing this crucial distinction here between "attack/assumption/fight" and "response" or "different point."
    ok wow!!
  • bragaswag
    bragaswag Posts: 28
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    Thigh gaps are sexy.
  • gingerjen7
    gingerjen7 Posts: 821 Member
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    Thigh gaps are sexy.
    I have a question about this for you and other guys who feel this way. What makes it sexy? Looking through the pictures that people have provided, most of those girls are pretty skinny, but any time there's a thread about what's sexy, most of the guys seem to say, "Curvy is sexy, that's what women are supposed to look like, not like little boys." Are these the same guys, guys who think that curves are sexy but also think thigh gap is sexy? Seems contradictory, since the thigh gap girls don't look very curvy at all to me. Or are the guys who say they don't think skinny girls are sexy lying because it's no longer socially acceptable to admit that skinny ladies are attractive?
  • christine24t
    christine24t Posts: 6,063 Member
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    Thigh gaps are sexy.
    I have a question about this for you and other guys who feel this way. What makes it sexy? Looking through the pictures that people have provided, most of those girls are pretty skinny, but any time there's a thread about what's sexy, most of the guys seem to say, "Curvy is sexy, that's what women are supposed to look like, not like little boys." Are these the same guys, guys who think that curves are sexy but also think thigh gap is sexy? Seems contradictory, since the thigh gap girls don't look very curvy at all to me. Or are the guys who say they don't think skinny girls are sexy lying because it's no longer socially acceptable to admit that skinny ladies are attractive?

    I wonder too. I don't get why thighs not touching is attractive, so it's gotta be more than that, it must mean being thin enough that thigh touching doesn't happen...
  • supahstar71
    supahstar71 Posts: 926 Member
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    Gap, Baby Gap, Thigh Gap.
  • Steve_Runs
    Steve_Runs Posts: 443 Member
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    It's a perfect place for my nose!!
  • astrylian
    astrylian Posts: 194 Member
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    It is a casual apparel thigh that has struggled since the late 90's due to being sandwiched between a lower and higher sister company, those companies being Thigh Banana Republic and Thigh Old Navy.

    :laugh:
  • EatClenTrenHard
    EatClenTrenHard Posts: 339 Member
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    Fat women dont have curves, since they are fat, and fat smoothes out the curves.

    Curves is a definition of a beautiful woman body, who is obviously not overweight.

    Too many whiteknights and whales in the thread mad at girls who have thigh gaps. nothing else.

    THIS IS WHAT CURVY IS:
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    THIS IS WHAT CURVY IS NOT

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  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,735 Member
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    I wonder too. I don't get why thighs not touching is attractive, so it's gotta be more than that, it must mean being thin enough that thigh touching doesn't happen...

    i think it just implies overall fitness to some guys. a woman who has a fit, toned body is attractive. it goes no deeper than that.
  • EatClenTrenHard
    EatClenTrenHard Posts: 339 Member
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    I wonder too. I don't get why thighs not touching is attractive, so it's gotta be more than that, it must mean being thin enough that thigh touching doesn't happen...

    i think it just implies overall fitness to some guys. a woman who has a fit, toned body is attractive. it goes no deeper than that.

    some anorexics still dont have thigh gaps. its all genetics^ and how you workout.
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,735 Member
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    I wonder too. I don't get why thighs not touching is attractive, so it's gotta be more than that, it must mean being thin enough that thigh touching doesn't happen...

    i think it just implies overall fitness to some guys. a woman who has a fit, toned body is attractive. it goes no deeper than that.

    some anorexics still dont have thigh gaps. its all genetics^ and how you workout.

    you don't have to convince me. it seems to be a new thing for the 25-and-under crowd. it didn't exist when i was that age.

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