Word: fittingness
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Not even the most dedicated transvestite could enjoy the annual rite of trying on bathing suits. All year long you've been judged by your efficiency, your creativity, your managerial talents--and suddenly, when you enter that fitting room, the only operative criteria are tilt of breasts and firmness of...
Think of the implications of this startling fact for the average woman facing a fitting-room mirror. Nothing can make you fully beach ready: not total abstinence from carbos and fat, not Madonna's workout regimen, not even a $100 suit hot-wired for maximum curves. If Julia Roberts is...
Biologically speaking, it might still be worth the humiliation of trying to squeeze into a size-8 suit if the payoff were a guaranteed increase in reproductive fitness. According to the most recent beauty research, this should indeed be the case: the standards of beauty that men bring to the...
Yes, men are still drawn to the kind of female geometry that excited their caveman ancestors, but this atavism only seems to make them resentful. My dear brother, for example, a man whom the concept of political correctness persistently eludes, refers to dumb women as "D cups." Or consider the...
George is a mergers-and-acquisitions specialist who has been the victim of an unfortunate divestment, left at the altar by his sassy, tousle-haired fiance. But this isn't an episode of Must See TV, so George doesn't seek solace from close friends and a laugh track. Instead...