Thigh gap "fun fact"

in... but on page 4. :frown:

Someone changed the pic lol yea that was not me...sorry if anyone missed the pic, its been reposted in comments though. Weird i didnt know somone else could change my posts?

Only a mod can. Which means someone reported you.

Strange, though. Why would they just change the photo (and to that). Why would they not lock or delete. Something odd going on here... I have seen this happen in a thread, to a woman's profile pic (it got changed to a cat pic). The mods (Rachel) said it was not them. Maybe a hacker???

Great....ugh

The internal dimensions of the pelvis, i.e. the width and shape of the birth canal, determines whether or not you have an easy or a hard time giving birth... a wider birth canal = more likely to give birth easily and quickly. The size of the birth canal has no relation to tightness of the vagina... the latter comes from the vaginal muscles. Doing pelvic floor exercises and squats tones up those muscles and makes them strong. The only possible correlation here is that women whose birth canal is too small to give birth vaginally have c-sections so will avoid possible pelvic floor issues that come from a vaginal birth, although the weight of the baby late in pregnancy still impacts on the pelvic floor somewhat and women who've had c-sections should still do pelvic floor exercises.

So it's certainly not the case that having more widely spaced hip joints means a looser vagina - if it is then please provide a peer reviewed journal to back that up.

Additionally, the internal and external dimensions of the pelvis don't match each other so closely as people would imagine. In general, a larger birth canal does mean a wider pelvis and therefore more widely spaced hip joints..... but the correlation isn't perfect and women can have a wide pelvis, widely spaced hip joints and still have a narrow birth canal and have difficulty giving birth because of it. Also, it's possible to still have a fairly wide birth canal while the distance between the hip joints is still fairly narrow, because the overall shape of the pelvis can vary.

And finally, even if someone has a large pelvis and large birth canal, the shape of the birth canal can impact how easy labour is. The birth canal should be oval shaped, a wide oval not far from circular. But if it's more triangular or a more flattened oval shape, then someone's going to have a harder time giving birth, even if it's quite big.

I am now sitting here watching Neil deGrasse Tyson be "booped" on the nose by a pendulum....

Funny how so many random women jumped on this as a chance to claim superiority over women with thigh gaps.

Funny how so many random women jumped on this as a chance to claim superiority over women with thigh gaps.

I am superior, remember wheird?

TadaGanIarracht.