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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Tue Dec 17, 2013, 11:54 PM Dec 2013

How to fake a "thigh gap"

http://www.upworthy.com/if-you-need-an-example-of-how-silly-our-standards-have-gotten-for-how-women-look-ta-da-2?c=upw1

I try not to pay attention to body-shaming BS for my own sanity, but I just learned about a trend pressuring women and girls to have a gap between their thighs, and it really caught me off-guard. (Haven't heard of it? Lucky you!) What's next? Obsessions with perfectly round freckles? Super wrinkly elbows?

Thank goodness for satire because without it ... well, just hopeless tears and frustrated head-shaking, I guess. This tutorial makes a great point about how ridiculous this "ideal" is, plus it's friggin' hilarious.

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How to fake a "thigh gap" (Original Post) eridani Dec 2013 OP
LOL ismnotwasm Dec 2013 #1
Or just realize chub rub is a fact of life and bag the shorts in favor Warpy Dec 2013 #2
I am so over worrying about shit like this BainsBane Dec 2013 #3
Deanna Troi intaglio Dec 2013 #4
Saw this on tumblr a while back, I love it :) redqueen Dec 2013 #5
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This message was self-deleted by its author Dash87 Dec 2013 #7

intaglio

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4. Deanna Troi
Wed Dec 18, 2013, 06:23 AM
Dec 2013

Not only was she an empath ("I sense hostility,Captain" ... "Deanna, they're Romulans ...&quot but according to one lady I know she was an android because "you could flip a soup bowl through her thigh gap"

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