Bridgerton Season 3

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Anonymous wrote:Absolutely revolted by the Benedict having sec with a man storyline - yuck!!!!! They ruined one of my favorite characters with that crap!

This!

Yes, how gross. Men having sex with each other. Wow

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Anonymous wrote:I think NC has a fairly unusual body type (extremely voluptuous but short and still proportional -- she's like Christina Hendricks but a half a foot shorter) so she's not just a short woman who gained a bunch of weight at midlife or something. Her body is literally just built like that -- hourglass shape but with a shorter torso and shorter legs than someone like Hendricks.

But the women I've known who ARE built like that do extremely well with men. Some men are obsessed with thinness in women but plenty of men are not and there are lots of men who like a short woman (makes them feel tall) and a curvy figure. I had a friend in college like this and she was never single and then married really well.

I'm skinny and above average height but I'm also flat chested and have a plain face and when we went out together men mostly only saw her (I'm okay with it as I'm not a social butterfly anyway and wouldn't have known what to do with the attention but just to be clear that men were not turned off by her body at all).

Show me a tall, hot successful financier/billionaire who married a short dumpy woman (ok voluptuous) with a round piggy face in real life and you'd have a point.

What a cruel way to describe someone’s looks.

Exactly. One must only describe the Bridgerton actors as beautiful and talented. All of them. Everything is beautiful and good about Bridgerton. In fact, this thread should be renamed "Everything that is good about Bridgerton Season 3" so that we can all understand the rules. Sunshine and rainbows and birdies!

Criticism and debate are so mean!

I’m not obsessed with bridgerton at all. In fact aspects of the show annoy me. I didn’t even watch the second season. But calling a woman piggy faced is cruel and it’s hard to imagine the type of grown woman who would feel the need to do that.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly find it weird how many people feel it is necessary to dissect her weight or to go into detail about how her body in the nude scene made them feel. It's like people have this idea that if they think someone is not sufficiently thin it is important to comment on it. Why.

Simone Ashley is very tall. She's only two inches shorter than Jonathan Bailey. This makes her body something of an outlier for women. Yet I have never seen anyone go into detail about how Ashley's sex scenes on Bridgerton really brought up a lot of opinions and feelings about her height. Becasue it's not really relevant. Becasue who cares -- some people are tall.

So I don't get why there are so many comments on this thread just absolutely dissecting Coughlan's body and quibbling over whether it's healthy or not or whether it's attractive or not or whatever. She is short for a woman and her body type is rounder with big boobs. Why do so many of you care SO much. How does this impact you. Does it really change or undermine your enjoyment of this silly stupid show. WHY.

Yeah. There's a lot of weirdness, and dare I say- hostility?- towards the idea that Nicola is a sex symbol here. I have to wonder if it's because many thin women live in a world where they ONLY see thin women treated as the objects of desire and anything that might contradict that narrative feels threatening to them? I'm a slim woman, but I have eyes, and see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. i see these women getting married, falling in love, etc. I find it baffling that people are acting like even seeing a woman like this (who, let's be real, more closely resembles the average American woman than all the other love interests) is such a crazy anomaly. Women who look like Nicola fall in love all the time. It really shouldnt be something worth analyzing on this level, and its actually very embarrassing for this website that this has turned into the focus of the thread.

See, I haven't seen this at all with white men in an upper middle class (and up) environment. I wish I did. But in my world (educated, upper middle class world of the Philly suburbs, Baltimore, and now DC) I got crazy amounts of attention (age 20-40) from men when I was a size 4 and pretty much none when my weight crept up to a size 10 (I'm 5'5"). It seriously was remarkable (and f-ing frustrating as someone whose natural set point is probably about a 10). Black men, hispanic men, Indian men, etc. ALL FINE with the extra weight. White men? No, not at all. And I'm not talking "asking me out" attention but EVEN LOOKING at me. When I was heavier i was invisible--so it's not like they secretly found me attractive at a larger size but felt societal pressure to not date a larger woman---they looked through me on sidewalks, etc.

And the higher you go in the social pecking order, the more thin is in. I'm now in upper NW DC at a fancy private school world and everyone is rail thin. Again, when I'm a size 4 I get dads checking me out. At a size 10? Invisible.

Agree. Don't know where that poster is coming from. I live in solidly upper middle class, private school/elite public school world. Handsome men do not go after fat women or heavy women. They just do not. People get heavy as they get older but those are people already married. But good looking men in their 20s and 30s and in the dating market do not go after fat women. They just do not. And when I mean "just do not" I do acknowledge there still are exceptions but those are as rare as hen's teeth. And this is borne out over and over again everywhere in the world of celebrities and socialites, which would be the real life Bridgerton comparison. All the heavy women around me are married to heavy men.

I'm not surprised Bridgerton is finding its fan base among people who need to fantasize an alternative world.

Betcha you just can’t stand that white people are paired with black actors in the show too, can you? Your “solidly upper class elite world” probably doesn’t give you many examples does it.

You are upset that in real life people's attractions are governed by remarkably consistent standards over the generations. Bridgerton is fantasy to the extreme. In the real world, the tall, hot studly Ralph Lauren model does not chase after the fat tattooed woman.

Trust me sweetie it upsets you FAR more than it upsets me.

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Anonymous wrote:I think NC has a fairly unusual body type (extremely voluptuous but short and still proportional -- she's like Christina Hendricks but a half a foot shorter) so she's not just a short woman who gained a bunch of weight at midlife or something. Her body is literally just built like that -- hourglass shape but with a shorter torso and shorter legs than someone like Hendricks.

But the women I've known who ARE built like that do extremely well with men. Some men are obsessed with thinness in women but plenty of men are not and there are lots of men who like a short woman (makes them feel tall) and a curvy figure. I had a friend in college like this and she was never single and then married really well.

I'm skinny and above average height but I'm also flat chested and have a plain face and when we went out together men mostly only saw her (I'm okay with it as I'm not a social butterfly anyway and wouldn't have known what to do with the attention but just to be clear that men were not turned off by her body at all).

Show me a tall, hot successful financier/billionaire who married a short dumpy woman (ok voluptuous) with a round piggy face in real life and you'd have a point.

What a cruel way to describe someone’s looks.

Exactly. One must only describe the Bridgerton actors as beautiful and talented. All of them. Everything is beautiful and good about Bridgerton. In fact, this thread should be renamed "Everything that is good about Bridgerton Season 3" so that we can all understand the rules. Sunshine and rainbows and birdies!

Criticism and debate are so mean!

I’m not obsessed with bridgerton at all. In fact aspects of the show annoy me. I didn’t even watch the second season. But calling a woman piggy faced is cruel and it’s hard to imagine the type of grown woman who would feel the need to do that.

+1 it's fine if not everyone finds NC attractive but the nature of the comments about her and her body are quite literally dehumanizing and degrading. I find some people attractive and others not attractive but I would never descrie anyone in this way. It's honestly jarring and I think that's why a bunch of posters have fought back against it becasue no matter how I feel about an actor or their performance or their attractiveness I don't like cruelty and viciousness. This woman did nothing to you.

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Anonymous wrote:I think NC has a fairly unusual body type (extremely voluptuous but short and still proportional -- she's like Christina Hendricks but a half a foot shorter) so she's not just a short woman who gained a bunch of weight at midlife or something. Her body is literally just built like that -- hourglass shape but with a shorter torso and shorter legs than someone like Hendricks.

But the women I've known who ARE built like that do extremely well with men. Some men are obsessed with thinness in women but plenty of men are not and there are lots of men who like a short woman (makes them feel tall) and a curvy figure. I had a friend in college like this and she was never single and then married really well.

I'm skinny and above average height but I'm also flat chested and have a plain face and when we went out together men mostly only saw her (I'm okay with it as I'm not a social butterfly anyway and wouldn't have known what to do with the attention but just to be clear that men were not turned off by her body at all).

Show me a tall, hot successful financier/billionaire who married a short dumpy woman (ok voluptuous) with a round piggy face in real life and you'd have a point.

100% agree even though this sounds cruel.

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Anonymous wrote:Absolutely revolted by the Benedict having sec with a man storyline - yuck!!!!! They ruined one of my favorite characters with that crap!

This!

Yes, how gross. Men having sex with each other. Wow

You can’t fathom how some people find this disgusting and unnatural?

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly find it weird how many people feel it is necessary to dissect her weight or to go into detail about how her body in the nude scene made them feel. It's like people have this idea that if they think someone is not sufficiently thin it is important to comment on it. Why.

Simone Ashley is very tall. She's only two inches shorter than Jonathan Bailey. This makes her body something of an outlier for women. Yet I have never seen anyone go into detail about how Ashley's sex scenes on Bridgerton really brought up a lot of opinions and feelings about her height. Becasue it's not really relevant. Becasue who cares -- some people are tall.

So I don't get why there are so many comments on this thread just absolutely dissecting Coughlan's body and quibbling over whether it's healthy or not or whether it's attractive or not or whatever. She is short for a woman and her body type is rounder with big boobs. Why do so many of you care SO much. How does this impact you. Does it really change or undermine your enjoyment of this silly stupid show. WHY.

Yeah. There's a lot of weirdness, and dare I say- hostility?- towards the idea that Nicola is a sex symbol here. I have to wonder if it's because many thin women live in a world where they ONLY see thin women treated as the objects of desire and anything that might contradict that narrative feels threatening to them? I'm a slim woman, but I have eyes, and see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. i see these women getting married, falling in love, etc. I find it baffling that people are acting like even seeing a woman like this (who, let's be real, more closely resembles the average American woman than all the other love interests) is such a crazy anomaly. Women who look like Nicola fall in love all the time. It really shouldnt be something worth analyzing on this level, and its actually very embarrassing for this website that this has turned into the focus of the thread.

See, I haven't seen this at all with white men in an upper middle class (and up) environment. I wish I did. But in my world (educated, upper middle class world of the Philly suburbs, Baltimore, and now DC) I got crazy amounts of attention (age 20-40) from men when I was a size 4 and pretty much none when my weight crept up to a size 10 (I'm 5'5"). It seriously was remarkable (and f-ing frustrating as someone whose natural set point is probably about a 10). Black men, hispanic men, Indian men, etc. ALL FINE with the extra weight. White men? No, not at all. And I'm not talking "asking me out" attention but EVEN LOOKING at me. When I was heavier i was invisible--so it's not like they secretly found me attractive at a larger size but felt societal pressure to not date a larger woman---they looked through me on sidewalks, etc.

And the higher you go in the social pecking order, the more thin is in. I'm now in upper NW DC at a fancy private school world and everyone is rail thin. Again, when I'm a size 4 I get dads checking me out. At a size 10? Invisible.

Agree. Don't know where that poster is coming from. I live in solidly upper middle class, private school/elite public school world. Handsome men do not go after fat women or heavy women. They just do not. People get heavy as they get older but those are people already married. But good looking men in their 20s and 30s and in the dating market do not go after fat women. They just do not. And when I mean "just do not" I do acknowledge there still are exceptions but those are as rare as hen's teeth. And this is borne out over and over again everywhere in the world of celebrities and socialites, which would be the real life Bridgerton comparison. All the heavy women around me are married to heavy men.

I'm not surprised Bridgerton is finding its fan base among people who need to fantasize an alternative world.

Betcha you just can’t stand that white people are paired with black actors in the show too, can you? Your “solidly upper class elite world” probably doesn’t give you many examples does it.

You are upset that in real life people's attractions are governed by remarkably consistent standards over the generations. Bridgerton is fantasy to the extreme. In the real world, the tall, hot studly Ralph Lauren model does not chase after the fat tattooed woman.

+1

And he never did.

Probably because he was gay, sweetie. You are so lost...

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly find it weird how many people feel it is necessary to dissect her weight or to go into detail about how her body in the nude scene made them feel. It's like people have this idea that if they think someone is not sufficiently thin it is important to comment on it. Why.

Simone Ashley is very tall. She's only two inches shorter than Jonathan Bailey. This makes her body something of an outlier for women. Yet I have never seen anyone go into detail about how Ashley's sex scenes on Bridgerton really brought up a lot of opinions and feelings about her height. Becasue it's not really relevant. Becasue who cares -- some people are tall.

So I don't get why there are so many comments on this thread just absolutely dissecting Coughlan's body and quibbling over whether it's healthy or not or whether it's attractive or not or whatever. She is short for a woman and her body type is rounder with big boobs. Why do so many of you care SO much. How does this impact you. Does it really change or undermine your enjoyment of this silly stupid show. WHY.

Yeah. There's a lot of weirdness, and dare I say- hostility?- towards the idea that Nicola is a sex symbol here. I have to wonder if it's because many thin women live in a world where they ONLY see thin women treated as the objects of desire and anything that might contradict that narrative feels threatening to them? I'm a slim woman, but I have eyes, and see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. i see these women getting married, falling in love, etc. I find it baffling that people are acting like even seeing a woman like this (who, let's be real, more closely resembles the average American woman than all the other love interests) is such a crazy anomaly. Women who look like Nicola fall in love all the time. It really shouldnt be something worth analyzing on this level, and its actually very embarrassing for this website that this has turned into the focus of the thread.

See, I haven't seen this at all with white men in an upper middle class (and up) environment. I wish I did. But in my world (educated, upper middle class world of the Philly suburbs, Baltimore, and now DC) I got crazy amounts of attention (age 20-40) from men when I was a size 4 and pretty much none when my weight crept up to a size 10 (I'm 5'5"). It seriously was remarkable (and f-ing frustrating as someone whose natural set point is probably about a 10). Black men, hispanic men, Indian men, etc. ALL FINE with the extra weight. White men? No, not at all. And I'm not talking "asking me out" attention but EVEN LOOKING at me. When I was heavier i was invisible--so it's not like they secretly found me attractive at a larger size but felt societal pressure to not date a larger woman---they looked through me on sidewalks, etc.

And the higher you go in the social pecking order, the more thin is in. I'm now in upper NW DC at a fancy private school world and everyone is rail thin. Again, when I'm a size 4 I get dads checking me out. At a size 10? Invisible.

Agree. Don't know where that poster is coming from. I live in solidly upper middle class, private school/elite public school world. Handsome men do not go after fat women or heavy women. They just do not. People get heavy as they get older but those are people already married. But good looking men in their 20s and 30s and in the dating market do not go after fat women. They just do not. And when I mean "just do not" I do acknowledge there still are exceptions but those are as rare as hen's teeth. And this is borne out over and over again everywhere in the world of celebrities and socialites, which would be the real life Bridgerton comparison. All the heavy women around me are married to heavy men.

I'm not surprised Bridgerton is finding its fan base among people who need to fantasize an alternative world.

Betcha you just can’t stand that white people are paired with black actors in the show too, can you? Your “solidly upper class elite world” probably doesn’t give you many examples does it.

You are upset that in real life people's attractions are governed by remarkably consistent standards over the generations. Bridgerton is fantasy to the extreme. In the real world, the tall, hot studly Ralph Lauren model does not chase after the fat tattooed woman.

In the real world, the overwhelming majority of those "hot studly models" are gay, or homoflexible at a minimum (I used to work in the industry). The "remarkably consistent standards" you reference are social constructs and control structures. The fantasy isn't just the deviation from them, it's the destruction of them. The construction of an alternative world that isn't governed by that ridiculous nonsense, where people can eat normally and spend their time outside the gym and their money on more than ozempic and elite schools, is quite attractive to people no longer willing to drink the sugar-free, zero-calorie Kool-Aid. The pages of rebellion because OMG a fat woman got her kit off show you just how programmed you are, if you're willing to look.

But it's okay. You're pretty and your spouse is rich, right? That's all that matters (to you).

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Anonymous wrote:I think NC has a fairly unusual body type (extremely voluptuous but short and still proportional -- she's like Christina Hendricks but a half a foot shorter) so she's not just a short woman who gained a bunch of weight at midlife or something. Her body is literally just built like that -- hourglass shape but with a shorter torso and shorter legs than someone like Hendricks.

But the women I've known who ARE built like that do extremely well with men. Some men are obsessed with thinness in women but plenty of men are not and there are lots of men who like a short woman (makes them feel tall) and a curvy figure. I had a friend in college like this and she was never single and then married really well.

I'm skinny and above average height but I'm also flat chested and have a plain face and when we went out together men mostly only saw her (I'm okay with it as I'm not a social butterfly anyway and wouldn't have known what to do with the attention but just to be clear that men were not turned off by her body at all).

Show me a tall, hot successful financier/billionaire who married a short dumpy woman (ok voluptuous) with a round piggy face in real life and you'd have a point.

What a cruel way to describe someone’s looks.

Exactly. One must only describe the Bridgerton actors as beautiful and talented. All of them. Everything is beautiful and good about Bridgerton. In fact, this thread should be renamed "Everything that is good about Bridgerton Season 3" so that we can all understand the rules. Sunshine and rainbows and birdies!

Criticism and debate are so mean!

I’m not obsessed with bridgerton at all. In fact aspects of the show annoy me. I didn’t even watch the second season. But calling a woman piggy faced is cruel and it’s hard to imagine the type of grown woman who would feel the need to do that.

A hungry one. When they starve themselves skinny enough, they start eating whatever brain cells they had. This is the result.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly find it weird how many people feel it is necessary to dissect her weight or to go into detail about how her body in the nude scene made them feel. It's like people have this idea that if they think someone is not sufficiently thin it is important to comment on it. Why.

Simone Ashley is very tall. She's only two inches shorter than Jonathan Bailey. This makes her body something of an outlier for women. Yet I have never seen anyone go into detail about how Ashley's sex scenes on Bridgerton really brought up a lot of opinions and feelings about her height. Becasue it's not really relevant. Becasue who cares -- some people are tall.

So I don't get why there are so many comments on this thread just absolutely dissecting Coughlan's body and quibbling over whether it's healthy or not or whether it's attractive or not or whatever. She is short for a woman and her body type is rounder with big boobs. Why do so many of you care SO much. How does this impact you. Does it really change or undermine your enjoyment of this silly stupid show. WHY.

Yeah. There's a lot of weirdness, and dare I say- hostility?- towards the idea that Nicola is a sex symbol here. I have to wonder if it's because many thin women live in a world where they ONLY see thin women treated as the objects of desire and anything that might contradict that narrative feels threatening to them? I'm a slim woman, but I have eyes, and see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. i see these women getting married, falling in love, etc. I find it baffling that people are acting like even seeing a woman like this (who, let's be real, more closely resembles the average American woman than all the other love interests) is such a crazy anomaly. Women who look like Nicola fall in love all the time. It really shouldnt be something worth analyzing on this level, and its actually very embarrassing for this website that this has turned into the focus of the thread.

See, I haven't seen this at all with white men in an upper middle class (and up) environment. I wish I did. But in my world (educated, upper middle class world of the Philly suburbs, Baltimore, and now DC) I got crazy amounts of attention (age 20-40) from men when I was a size 4 and pretty much none when my weight crept up to a size 10 (I'm 5'5"). It seriously was remarkable (and f-ing frustrating as someone whose natural set point is probably about a 10). Black men, hispanic men, Indian men, etc. ALL FINE with the extra weight. White men? No, not at all. And I'm not talking "asking me out" attention but EVEN LOOKING at me. When I was heavier i was invisible--so it's not like they secretly found me attractive at a larger size but felt societal pressure to not date a larger woman---they looked through me on sidewalks, etc.

And the higher you go in the social pecking order, the more thin is in. I'm now in upper NW DC at a fancy private school world and everyone is rail thin. Again, when I'm a size 4 I get dads checking me out. At a size 10? Invisible.

That’s how you look at yourself. Insecure. Keely Shaye Brosnan for the win. Pierce looks at his size 14/16 like she is a size 4. Pierce Brosnan is not an anomaly.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly find it weird how many people feel it is necessary to dissect her weight or to go into detail about how her body in the nude scene made them feel. It's like people have this idea that if they think someone is not sufficiently thin it is important to comment on it. Why.

Simone Ashley is very tall. She's only two inches shorter than Jonathan Bailey. This makes her body something of an outlier for women. Yet I have never seen anyone go into detail about how Ashley's sex scenes on Bridgerton really brought up a lot of opinions and feelings about her height. Becasue it's not really relevant. Becasue who cares -- some people are tall.

So I don't get why there are so many comments on this thread just absolutely dissecting Coughlan's body and quibbling over whether it's healthy or not or whether it's attractive or not or whatever. She is short for a woman and her body type is rounder with big boobs. Why do so many of you care SO much. How does this impact you. Does it really change or undermine your enjoyment of this silly stupid show. WHY.

Yeah. There's a lot of weirdness, and dare I say- hostility?- towards the idea that Nicola is a sex symbol here. I have to wonder if it's because many thin women live in a world where they ONLY see thin women treated as the objects of desire and anything that might contradict that narrative feels threatening to them? I'm a slim woman, but I have eyes, and see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. i see these women getting married, falling in love, etc. I find it baffling that people are acting like even seeing a woman like this (who, let's be real, more closely resembles the average American woman than all the other love interests) is such a crazy anomaly. Women who look like Nicola fall in love all the time. It really shouldnt be something worth analyzing on this level, and its actually very embarrassing for this website that this has turned into the focus of the thread.

See, I haven't seen this at all with white men in an upper middle class (and up) environment. I wish I did. But in my world (educated, upper middle class world of the Philly suburbs, Baltimore, and now DC) I got crazy amounts of attention (age 20-40) from men when I was a size 4 and pretty much none when my weight crept up to a size 10 (I'm 5'5"). It seriously was remarkable (and f-ing frustrating as someone whose natural set point is probably about a 10). Black men, hispanic men, Indian men, etc. ALL FINE with the extra weight. White men? No, not at all. And I'm not talking "asking me out" attention but EVEN LOOKING at me. When I was heavier i was invisible--so it's not like they secretly found me attractive at a larger size but felt societal pressure to not date a larger woman---they looked through me on sidewalks, etc.

And the higher you go in the social pecking order, the more thin is in. I'm now in upper NW DC at a fancy private school world and everyone is rail thin. Again, when I'm a size 4 I get dads checking me out. At a size 10? Invisible.

Agree. Don't know where that poster is coming from. I live in solidly upper middle class, private school/elite public school world. Handsome men do not go after fat women or heavy women. They just do not. People get heavy as they get older but those are people already married. But good looking men in their 20s and 30s and in the dating market do not go after fat women. They just do not. And when I mean "just do not" I do acknowledge there still are exceptions but those are as rare as hen's teeth. And this is borne out over and over again everywhere in the world of celebrities and socialites, which would be the real life Bridgerton comparison. All the heavy women around me are married to heavy men.

I'm not surprised Bridgerton is finding its fan base among people who need to fantasize an alternative world.

I cannot believe you posters are comparing the conventions and beauty standards of this period in time with the conventions of Queen Charlotte’s 250 plus years ago beauty’s standards. You ever heard of the rubenesque period? Museums and art galleries have portraits and sculptures depicting the beauty of women with these body types during that period of history.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly find it weird how many people feel it is necessary to dissect her weight or to go into detail about how her body in the nude scene made them feel. It's like people have this idea that if they think someone is not sufficiently thin it is important to comment on it. Why.

Simone Ashley is very tall. She's only two inches shorter than Jonathan Bailey. This makes her body something of an outlier for women. Yet I have never seen anyone go into detail about how Ashley's sex scenes on Bridgerton really brought up a lot of opinions and feelings about her height. Becasue it's not really relevant. Becasue who cares -- some people are tall.

So I don't get why there are so many comments on this thread just absolutely dissecting Coughlan's body and quibbling over whether it's healthy or not or whether it's attractive or not or whatever. She is short for a woman and her body type is rounder with big boobs. Why do so many of you care SO much. How does this impact you. Does it really change or undermine your enjoyment of this silly stupid show. WHY.

Yeah. There's a lot of weirdness, and dare I say- hostility?- towards the idea that Nicola is a sex symbol here. I have to wonder if it's because many thin women live in a world where they ONLY see thin women treated as the objects of desire and anything that might contradict that narrative feels threatening to them? I'm a slim woman, but I have eyes, and see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. i see these women getting married, falling in love, etc. I find it baffling that people are acting like even seeing a woman like this (who, let's be real, more closely resembles the average American woman than all the other love interests) is such a crazy anomaly. Women who look like Nicola fall in love all the time. It really shouldnt be something worth analyzing on this level, and its actually very embarrassing for this website that this has turned into the focus of the thread.

See, I haven't seen this at all with white men in an upper middle class (and up) environment. I wish I did. But in my world (educated, upper middle class world of the Philly suburbs, Baltimore, and now DC) I got crazy amounts of attention (age 20-40) from men when I was a size 4 and pretty much none when my weight crept up to a size 10 (I'm 5'5"). It seriously was remarkable (and f-ing frustrating as someone whose natural set point is probably about a 10). Black men, hispanic men, Indian men, etc. ALL FINE with the extra weight. White men? No, not at all. And I'm not talking "asking me out" attention but EVEN LOOKING at me. When I was heavier i was invisible--so it's not like they secretly found me attractive at a larger size but felt societal pressure to not date a larger woman---they looked through me on sidewalks, etc.

And the higher you go in the social pecking order, the more thin is in. I'm now in upper NW DC at a fancy private school world and everyone is rail thin. Again, when I'm a size 4 I get dads checking me out. At a size 10? Invisible.

Agree. Don't know where that poster is coming from. I live in solidly upper middle class, private school/elite public school world. Handsome men do not go after fat women or heavy women. They just do not. People get heavy as they get older but those are people already married. But good looking men in their 20s and 30s and in the dating market do not go after fat women. They just do not. And when I mean "just do not" I do acknowledge there still are exceptions but those are as rare as hen's teeth. And this is borne out over and over again everywhere in the world of celebrities and socialites, which would be the real life Bridgerton comparison. All the heavy women around me are married to heavy men.

I'm not surprised Bridgerton is finding its fan base among people who need to fantasize an alternative world.

Betcha you just can’t stand that white people are paired with black actors in the show too, can you? Your “solidly upper class elite world” probably doesn’t give you many examples does it.

You are upset that in real life people's attractions are governed by remarkably consistent standards over the generations. Bridgerton is fantasy to the extreme. In the real world, the tall, hot studly Ralph Lauren model does not chase after the fat tattooed woman.

You’re right. Those men usually chase the tail of each other.

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Anonymous wrote:I think NC has a fairly unusual body type (extremely voluptuous but short and still proportional -- she's like Christina Hendricks but a half a foot shorter) so she's not just a short woman who gained a bunch of weight at midlife or something. Her body is literally just built like that -- hourglass shape but with a shorter torso and shorter legs than someone like Hendricks.

But the women I've known who ARE built like that do extremely well with men. Some men are obsessed with thinness in women but plenty of men are not and there are lots of men who like a short woman (makes them feel tall) and a curvy figure. I had a friend in college like this and she was never single and then married really well.

I'm skinny and above average height but I'm also flat chested and have a plain face and when we went out together men mostly only saw her (I'm okay with it as I'm not a social butterfly anyway and wouldn't have known what to do with the attention but just to be clear that men were not turned off by her body at all).

Show me a tall, hot successful financier/billionaire who married a short dumpy woman (ok voluptuous) with a round piggy face in real life and you'd have a point.

100% agree even though this sounds cruel.

In the 2020’s or 1790’s in which the Bridgerton’s time period is based.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly find it weird how many people feel it is necessary to dissect her weight or to go into detail about how her body in the nude scene made them feel. It's like people have this idea that if they think someone is not sufficiently thin it is important to comment on it. Why.

Simone Ashley is very tall. She's only two inches shorter than Jonathan Bailey. This makes her body something of an outlier for women. Yet I have never seen anyone go into detail about how Ashley's sex scenes on Bridgerton really brought up a lot of opinions and feelings about her height. Becasue it's not really relevant. Becasue who cares -- some people are tall.

So I don't get why there are so many comments on this thread just absolutely dissecting Coughlan's body and quibbling over whether it's healthy or not or whether it's attractive or not or whatever. She is short for a woman and her body type is rounder with big boobs. Why do so many of you care SO much. How does this impact you. Does it really change or undermine your enjoyment of this silly stupid show. WHY.

Yeah. There's a lot of weirdness, and dare I say- hostility?- towards the idea that Nicola is a sex symbol here. I have to wonder if it's because many thin women live in a world where they ONLY see thin women treated as the objects of desire and anything that might contradict that narrative feels threatening to them? I'm a slim woman, but I have eyes, and see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. i see these women getting married, falling in love, etc. I find it baffling that people are acting like even seeing a woman like this (who, let's be real, more closely resembles the average American woman than all the other love interests) is such a crazy anomaly. Women who look like Nicola fall in love all the time. It really shouldnt be something worth analyzing on this level, and its actually very embarrassing for this website that this has turned into the focus of the thread.

See, I haven't seen this at all with white men in an upper middle class (and up) environment. I wish I did. But in my world (educated, upper middle class world of the Philly suburbs, Baltimore, and now DC) I got crazy amounts of attention (age 20-40) from men when I was a size 4 and pretty much none when my weight crept up to a size 10 (I'm 5'5"). It seriously was remarkable (and f-ing frustrating as someone whose natural set point is probably about a 10). Black men, hispanic men, Indian men, etc. ALL FINE with the extra weight. White men? No, not at all. And I'm not talking "asking me out" attention but EVEN LOOKING at me. When I was heavier i was invisible--so it's not like they secretly found me attractive at a larger size but felt societal pressure to not date a larger woman---they looked through me on sidewalks, etc.

And the higher you go in the social pecking order, the more thin is in. I'm now in upper NW DC at a fancy private school world and everyone is rail thin. Again, when I'm a size 4 I get dads checking me out. At a size 10? Invisible.

Agree. Don't know where that poster is coming from. I live in solidly upper middle class, private school/elite public school world. Handsome men do not go after fat women or heavy women. They just do not. People get heavy as they get older but those are people already married. But good looking men in their 20s and 30s and in the dating market do not go after fat women. They just do not. And when I mean "just do not" I do acknowledge there still are exceptions but those are as rare as hen's teeth. And this is borne out over and over again everywhere in the world of celebrities and socialites, which would be the real life Bridgerton comparison. All the heavy women around me are married to heavy men.

I'm not surprised Bridgerton is finding its fan base among people who need to fantasize an alternative world.

I cannot believe you posters are comparing the conventions and beauty standards of this period in time with the conventions of Queen Charlotte’s 250 plus years ago beauty’s standards. You ever heard of the rubenesque period? Museums and art galleries have portraits and sculptures depicting the beauty of women with these body types during that period of history.

We're talking about a show that fakes history and pretends there were black nobles in regency Britain and made up a racial history for Queen Charlotte, a German princess with German parents. And you are getting upset that people are laughing at how the characters are paired off in the name of romance?

Oh, I'd be the *first* to tell you there were great dukes who married fat dumpy women for $$$$$ and estates and lineage and family pressure. But not for romance. And there's no shortage of realism about it. Even Austin is frank about the Regency money market when it came to marriage. Such marriages for wealth and connections almost always involved mistresses off to the side.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly find it weird how many people feel it is necessary to dissect her weight or to go into detail about how her body in the nude scene made them feel. It's like people have this idea that if they think someone is not sufficiently thin it is important to comment on it. Why.

Simone Ashley is very tall. She's only two inches shorter than Jonathan Bailey. This makes her body something of an outlier for women. Yet I have never seen anyone go into detail about how Ashley's sex scenes on Bridgerton really brought up a lot of opinions and feelings about her height. Becasue it's not really relevant. Becasue who cares -- some people are tall.

So I don't get why there are so many comments on this thread just absolutely dissecting Coughlan's body and quibbling over whether it's healthy or not or whether it's attractive or not or whatever. She is short for a woman and her body type is rounder with big boobs. Why do so many of you care SO much. How does this impact you. Does it really change or undermine your enjoyment of this silly stupid show. WHY.

Yeah. There's a lot of weirdness, and dare I say- hostility?- towards the idea that Nicola is a sex symbol here. I have to wonder if it's because many thin women live in a world where they ONLY see thin women treated as the objects of desire and anything that might contradict that narrative feels threatening to them? I'm a slim woman, but I have eyes, and see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. i see these women getting married, falling in love, etc. I find it baffling that people are acting like even seeing a woman like this (who, let's be real, more closely resembles the average American woman than all the other love interests) is such a crazy anomaly. Women who look like Nicola fall in love all the time. It really shouldnt be something worth analyzing on this level, and its actually very embarrassing for this website that this has turned into the focus of the thread.

See, I haven't seen this at all with white men in an upper middle class (and up) environment. I wish I did. But in my world (educated, upper middle class world of the Philly suburbs, Baltimore, and now DC) I got crazy amounts of attention (age 20-40) from men when I was a size 4 and pretty much none when my weight crept up to a size 10 (I'm 5'5"). It seriously was remarkable (and f-ing frustrating as someone whose natural set point is probably about a 10). Black men, hispanic men, Indian men, etc. ALL FINE with the extra weight. White men? No, not at all. And I'm not talking "asking me out" attention but EVEN LOOKING at me. When I was heavier i was invisible--so it's not like they secretly found me attractive at a larger size but felt societal pressure to not date a larger woman---they looked through me on sidewalks, etc.

And the higher you go in the social pecking order, the more thin is in. I'm now in upper NW DC at a fancy private school world and everyone is rail thin. Again, when I'm a size 4 I get dads checking me out. At a size 10? Invisible.

Agree. Don't know where that poster is coming from. I live in solidly upper middle class, private school/elite public school world. Handsome men do not go after fat women or heavy women. They just do not. People get heavy as they get older but those are people already married. But good looking men in their 20s and 30s and in the dating market do not go after fat women. They just do not. And when I mean "just do not" I do acknowledge there still are exceptions but those are as rare as hen's teeth. And this is borne out over and over again everywhere in the world of celebrities and socialites, which would be the real life Bridgerton comparison. All the heavy women around me are married to heavy men.

I'm not surprised Bridgerton is finding its fan base among people who need to fantasize an alternative world.

Betcha you just can’t stand that white people are paired with black actors in the show too, can you? Your “solidly upper class elite world” probably doesn’t give you many examples does it.

You are upset that in real life people's attractions are governed by remarkably consistent standards over the generations. Bridgerton is fantasy to the extreme. In the real world, the tall, hot studly Ralph Lauren model does not chase after the fat tattooed woman.

In the real world, the overwhelming majority of those "hot studly models" are gay, or homoflexible at a minimum (I used to work in the industry). The "remarkably consistent standards" you reference are social constructs and control structures. The fantasy isn't just the deviation from them, it's the destruction of them. The construction of an alternative world that isn't governed by that ridiculous nonsense, where people can eat normally and spend their time outside the gym and their money on more than ozempic and elite schools, is quite attractive to people no longer willing to drink the sugar-free, zero-calorie Kool-Aid. The pages of rebellion because OMG a fat woman got her kit off show you just how programmed you are, if you're willing to look.

But it's okay. You're pretty and your spouse is rich, right? That's all that matters (to you).

I agree that I'm not kind. I'm realistic. That's the difference between people who live in delusional woke worlds where life is one perpetual kindergarten where everyone has to be nice and kind to each other, and people who live in the real world driven by biology and sexual desires. Tall handsome successful men do not seek out and pair off with short dumpy women with round heavy faces. Why would they? Pick up any celeb mag, browse through any of the society websites and David Patrick's social diary for the NYC social set, spend any time in popular places for the rich and connected, and you'll soon see what beauty and attractions means to the very rich and the very connected.