Large or Small?

I've given thought to posts dissing thin women, the ones absent significant body fat. IMHO, it seems as some people watch their curves, bellies and various other body parts sag and succumb to the Earth's insidious gravitational pull they want to change the paradigm of what was once considered beautiful. To this end, the former shapely, alluring woman has been re-characterized into a gaunt, starving waif who has managed to instill her nefarious, famished visage on the psyches of girls, condemning them to a life of carrots, celery and lettuce. Pondering over this near cataclysmic event of unparalleled proportions, I had an epiphany. Society is seeing the fruition of the sour grapes syndrome - adopting a negative attitude to something because they cannot have it themselves.
I recently saw a picture of a what is classified as the now acceptable full-figured woman next to a bikini-clad counterpart. While the former stretched the fabric of her suit, the latter, until only recently the de rigeuer standard for emulation, posed sans any appreciable adipose tissue deposits. Arrows on the bottom labelled each lady noting "I'd rather look like this" (pointing to the significantly larger woman) "than this" (tagging the waif).Expanding this logic, two corollary statements espousing a similar sentiment would be:1) gray, lifeless, dry hair is more attractive than a shiny, lustrous mane2) dry, flaky, age-spot laden skin is more attractive than a smooth, tanned, delicate dermisPersonally, I no longer play hockey, run down flies in the outfield or am relied on to take & sink the last shot in a basketball game. My hair is graying & I don't weigh what I did in school. But I don't claim that my experience now would let me stand toe-to-toe with a Gretsky, Mantle or Jordan. Sometimes, we simply need to acknowledge we're out of the race and stop the rationalization process.Is there a solution? Perhaps removing mirrors in our homes, not looking at celebrities and wearing potato sacks in public would alleviate what can be considered, at a gut level, simple jealousy.