[numbnuts]

Different guys have different preferences regarding women's heights. Personally, I generally find unusually tall and unusually short women attractive. (Average-height women are O.K.) I think a unique height just serves to set a woman apart from the rest, not to make her more or less attractive.

As far as body composition goes, it is well known that most men prefer leaner women. I can appreciate anything from very thin and toned (but not anorexic, no ribs showing) to a little overweight with a curvy, well-proportioned figure. Some other men opt for severely skinny ladies, whereas others can't resist hugely obese mates. I imagine there is also a segment of men who enjoy larger, muscular women, although I don't hear about this group as much.

Regardless of your body type, I'm sure there's someone out there for you. Don't fret if a few people reject or tease you. Rest assured that contrary to popular belief, not all men seek the same body type, so no matter how insecure some of you may be, there are men out there who like you the way you are.

[Aithinne]

OMG I had no idea this forum existed!! I was hanging out in the small boobie support group! But my body issues are much more than just having a small chest. I'm also very thin and not very curvy. 5'2", 110 lbs, and 34B. I've experienced the same comments of ridicule for thin women as well as you other ladies. Annoys the hell out of me. This is my natural body type, and I don't gain weight no matter how much I eat. It seems like these days people are bashing thin people to boost larger people (as if all women who are thin are that way because they have an eating disorder...riiiight). It just seems like a bully tactic.

My whole life I've thought the more volumptuous women were the most beautiful, the most womanly shaped and sexy. Meanwhile I'm over here with very little curves and feel like an adolescent. These days it seems like whenever you ask men what type of bodies they like for women, it's always the curvy girls. I almost feel like they don't feel they can say they like thin women because they might be considered to be shallow and mean. But then, I feel bad because my whole life I've thought no one would want me because I didn't look feminine or curvy. I just wonder if there are men out there who would be attracted to me because of my petite-ness, be attracted to me even though I wasn't curvy. I've never felt that womanly or that attractive because of my natural body type, and that is sad.

And don't even get me started on that movie "Real Women Have Curves" UGH!!! The movie is good, but the title pisses the hell out of me... to oblivion. So what, AM I NOT A REAL WOMAN? Give me a break!! That just reaffirms every insecurity I have about being thin: you're not womanly, not feminine, therefore you are not beautiful or sexy and no man is ever going to want you unless he's a pedofile. GRRRRR. Why is my body type so unacceptable, and why do people feel that they have permission to comment to me about it? I have NEVER commented to a larger woman about her size. EVER. It is so inappropriate and rude, regardless of body type.

It also seems to me like if you talk about your small size with other people and try to discuss how it could make you have self-esteem problems to be so thin, they look at you like you're an idiot and have no idea what you're talking about. You're just a 'skinny bitch' for having a single problem with your supposed "perfect" size. They are completely baffled as to how a thin woman could be insecure and have no interest in listening to the reason WHY. At least larger women do not feel like they cannot claim their status as WOMEN. They may or may not feel unattractive in their own skin, but at least they see themselves as WOMEN. I sometimes feel not only unattractive, but an unattractive BOY, or unattractive non-entity. I feel bad when women who are larger don't even want to listen to me, or even try to understand me. It makes me feel like because I have a certain body type, that I'm not worth empathizing with. And it's hurtful because I have always tried to understand and empathize with other people.

I would love to be pretty and curvy and womanly. But I'm not (according to social ideals) and it's not my fault. I shouldn't be ridiculed for it. The grass is always greener on the other side, but in reality, every natural body type should be appreciated and seen as attractive and womanly. Just because some of us aren't very curvy doesn't mean we're not 'real women'. *end rant*