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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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 [b]see plenty of mid-sized, chubby, and yes, fat women holding hats with hot men in the real world. [/b] 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.[/quote]

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.

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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.

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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. [/quote]

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.[b] In the real world, the tall, hot studly Ralph Lauren model does not chase after the fat tattooed woman[/b]. [/quote]

And he never did.  [/quote]

Probably because he was gay, sweetie. You are so lost...[/quote]

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