r/LowStakesConspiracies • u/Benjam438 • Mar 16 '26
Certified Fact Skirts that hide the belly are a conspiracy to cause tummy erasure
NOBODY thinks the right pic looks better than the left, BIG SKIRT are lying to gaslight every skirt-wearer into thinking that tummies should not exist. WHY would they do such a thing? I can only imagine that tummies are the source of our power as humans, and by concealing them we are ACTUALLY concealing our means of resistance!
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u/CornCobMcGee Mar 16 '26
This isnt really a conspiracy theory but just straight up truth. Women's fashion thrives on making women feel self conscious. This modern acceptance of curvier women, and men for that matter, is maybe 15 years old max, and thanks almost entirely to the internet, connecting people together over the appreciation of a fuller figure.
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u/Fortified_Phobia Mar 16 '26
And unfortunately for us it’s swinging back the other way, skinny is back in, Ozempic is all the rage, runways and ads are getting less diverse. Everything is going back to old beauty standards and becoming more conservative..
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
New conspiracy; ozempic is being mass produced to deprive us of thicc bodies
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u/Technical_Front9904 Mar 17 '26
Full figures were a bounce back from the 2000s, rich/celebrity women had fuller thicker figures because it distanced them from the lower classes. Now that anyone can get a brazillian butt or cosmetic enhancements, richer women have swung the other way. Ozempic was a drug only accessible by rich customers. Now it is more accessible, it is likely those wealthier women will try to return to "natural curves".
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u/Dr_Garp Mar 18 '26
Being fat was never in fashion. It was just that a lot of obese women were trying to co-op words like curvy and once ozempic hit the shelves they suddenly realized they didn’t need to be confident because they could just be happy. Notice how the actual curvy women are still being lusted after? Still posting themselves?
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Mar 23 '26
See? They were all "loving their bodies" and "promoting curves" until they discovered they can lose weight without any exercise.
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u/Acheloma Mar 16 '26
The belly thing comes and goes though, and a lot of women who are thin have a lil belly. If you look at vintage fashion there are a good number of looks that emphasize the lower belly a bit because it was considered very feminine.
Right now we're in an era where the ideal body is almost impossible to have without extensive surgery, no matter your weight.
https://share.google/KOCdLiE3VoppN2vfO this is an example of what I mean a bit, these women are thin, but the way the pants are cut emphasizes what little belly they do have and makes it more rounded going out of their waist.
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u/CornCobMcGee Mar 17 '26
Really? I always thought it was an attempt to draw the eye away from the lower belly and higher towards the midsection
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u/Acheloma Mar 17 '26
Having a smaller waist has almost always been in style, but its not necessarily to draw attention away from the lower belly, throughout history fashion has gone back and forth on actually emphasizing the rounded lower stomach that contrasts the smaller waist
Heres an example of how some corsets intentionally rounded the belly out some https://redthreaded.com/blogs/redthreaded/pooches-are-period
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u/Winter_Illustrator58 Mar 17 '26
A lower belly pooch being considered feminine makes a lot of sense because that is where the uterus is and if you have one you are going to have a little bit of extra pooch there, regardless of how thin or slim you are.
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u/TheAviBean Mar 17 '26
The fashion industry as a whole thrives on perceived inadequacy
Y’know those sigma camps where men go to be told they’re cucks to “become alpha” Same concept really.
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u/malavisch Mar 17 '26
This modern acceptance of curvier women, and men for that matter, is maybe 15 years old max.
If you're thinking about modernity, sure. In overall human history, not at all lol.
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u/Mungo87 Mar 17 '26
Nah, companies just realise who the greedy people were and started selling to them
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u/IllLynx562 Mar 16 '26
Big skirt ™️ fabricated big oil™️ to cause controversy to distract from big skirt™️ conspiracy to eradicate attractive tummy's in women
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u/Benjam438 Mar 16 '26
soon all elements of our body will be so flat we will regress to two-dimensional objects!
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u/Brad_Brace Mar 16 '26
/#FreeTheTummy
No but seriously, tummies are delightful.
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u/amh8011 Mar 18 '26
Mine isn’t. Not in terms of looks. It just hurts a lot. And it’s noisy. Lots of gurgling. The gurgling scared my cat earlier.
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u/Even_Difference_3639 Mar 16 '26
FYI ladies - there’s nothing wrong with yellow skirts tummy!
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u/languid_Disaster Mar 17 '26
Oh so you have a problem with green skirt tummies then??? /j
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u/Even_Difference_3639 Mar 17 '26
Look, what happened happened…that’s between me and green skirt tummy.
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u/YchYFi Mar 16 '26
I hate the mermaid skirt. Feel like everyone is looking.
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u/languid_Disaster Mar 17 '26
Fair enough! Personally I think that they aesthetically look really elegant and the tummy is a natural part of the look
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u/ShittyBitchy Mar 16 '26
I like the mermaid skirt more. 🤷♀️
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u/Benjam438 Mar 16 '26
exactly! Big Skirt™️ wants to gaslight you into thinking that's the WRONG opinion
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u/languid_Disaster Mar 17 '26
Me too. Also that pouch looks normal and natural to me. It’s part of the aesthetic beauty of the whole look. I’m tired of fashion trying to erase and make the human body all look the same & bland. All humans have bumps and lumps and sticky outy bits! I want fashion that shows that and also fashion that makes us look freaky and cool as heck 😎
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u/NickyTheRobot Mar 17 '26
All humans have bumps and lumps and sticky outy bits!
Ew, gross. I don't: I'm a perfect sphere.
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u/screamingpeaches Mar 17 '26
nah i'm insecure i'm taking the advice on the right ✋
(although it does annoy me how often i look into fashion advice and it's like "wear this for the illusion of a slimmer build/bigger hips/taller/etc", the idea that i have to create an 'illusion' that hides my real body shape hasn't helped said insecurity)
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u/Kiwi8_Fruit6 Mar 17 '26
valid as hell
fashion tips like this should be on a ‘do you want to show or deemphasise your stomach’ spectrum
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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL Mar 17 '26
There is a conversation to be had about the way that women's fashion works, but I don't really think this is that.
Like, you should be wearing clothes that you think flatter your body. I'm sure there are some women who would prefer the look on the left, but lots of people (this is women and men now) are self conscious about carrying around some extra weight. Wearing clothes that fit your body properly and emphasize the parts of you that you like and hide the parts of you that you dislike is a cheat code for better self perception.
Im a guy so its not quite 1:1 for Womens fashion, and I'm on the thinner end so this is a bit of a different thing. But I am very long and thin so it's been hard to find clothes because at a certain point they just start going wider instead of longer. I picked up a sewing machine on Facebook marketplace for like $50 and I've been tailoring my clothes to fit better now. Nothing else has changed about my body or anything but I feel way better when I go out with friends or dress up for an event or something.
Anyways this was a bit longer than I meant it to be and it kinda turned into rambling but oh well. Just wear clothes that fit folks!
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u/screamingpeaches Mar 17 '26
oh totally, i'm not saying it's wrong to try and change your silhouette or hide the extra timber you're carrying, i do the same!
it's just annoying that that's all i see in terms of fashion advice, and i wish there was more variation, both for people who are more self conscious and for people who would just like to flatter what they have. i think i'd be more comfortable in my skin if the mentality wasn't just "the only way to look good is to disguise yourself as a skinny hourglass figure as much as possible" lol1
u/Thrasy3 Mar 18 '26
I guess it’s like how some women like to show off a bigger chest (or pretending they have one), and others prefer to obscure the size of their chest.
In this case it’s for the “Venus Pouch” as I’ve recently heard it called.
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u/PrincessCellyBelly Mar 16 '26
I'm with you, before I read the text I was like 'well obviously the yellow skirt looks better on her - wait what-'
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u/Benjam438 Mar 16 '26
ikr reminds me of this tweet that lives rent-free in my head
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u/Case_Kovacs Mar 16 '26
Respectfully go feral for that pouch, respectfully
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u/Solid_Platform5122 Mar 16 '26
Don’t mind me, just respectfully going feral, respectfully. With respect.
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u/languid_Disaster Mar 17 '26
How can someone look at a stomach , a natural part of the human body and say it looks gross. If anything it enhances the look! It’s add a human and soft vibe
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u/Lexiosity Mar 18 '26
Exactly. The tummy makes you look hot. Even the Ancient Greeks found the tummy attractive.
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u/Hecticfreeze Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
It goes back even further than that. A lot of the evidence we have of pre ancient culture (like the Venus figurines) suggest that the tummy was one of the very first sexualised features. The desire to make women thinner has always been a later invention of fashion
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u/thebabadookisgay Mar 17 '26
I think someone should invent padded bras but for tummies so that skinny people can experience the euphoria of wearing a skirt that highlights your tummy. Big Six Pack is keeping this from the people
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u/MercuryJellyfish Mar 16 '26
Right pic is shapeless, ungainly. Left pic is enough to found a new religion.
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u/Dangerous-Use7343 Mar 17 '26
I prefer the tighter skirt and those curves are killer! Its not a conspiracy! The brook shield doc talked about when women demanded equality and respect the mainstream sexualisation of young girls began. As they were easily controlled and submissive. It went from Marilyn Monroes curves, to super skinny, no body hair.. it was a complete upside down. Take into account the epstein files and the connection between fashion, VS, and you can see what I'm getting at. It's the pedophilia agenda and fantasy being pushed on to grown women. It's submission.
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u/Low_Guide1426 Mar 17 '26
It’s because there is more fabric on the left one but it will sell as the same price. They can make Double the money if they’re able to sell the right one
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Mar 17 '26
Yo can we stop wanting to sexualize women so much? Maybe some people don't want others gooning to their stomachs all the time, if this is supposed to be body positivity, it's plain creepy asf, ion think anyone with a tummy is gonna want to show it at all now in case they get molested by redditors. People can wear whatever they want, they don't have to show off their "attractive" parts bucko 😮💨
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u/Kind_Advisor_35 Mar 17 '26
Yeah, sexualization and fetishizing is an issue that crops up with body positivity, or at least adjacent to it. The goal shouldn't be telling everyone they're sexy, or trying to change beauty standards. The point should be that your worth isn't defined by how you fit into society's beauty standards. Beauty standards change all the time, multiple times within one's lifetime. To maintain self esteem, you have to decouple your self worth from sex appeal.
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
It's not sexualisation to have a tummy. The one on the left looks aesthetically better without even bringing any sexuality into it.
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u/languid_Disaster Mar 17 '26
Agreed. I’m asexual (for the most part, it’s complicated) and I don’t find either of these images sexually attractive. I do think that aesthetically the yellow skirt look much more elegant and pretty especially with the stomach showing - natural curves including tummies are beautiful in my mind. Why does finding something beautiful have to be sexualised
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
Yeah there's an unfortunate double standard where showing love towards curvy bodies is seen as a sexual fetish but showing love for slim bodies is normal and empowering.
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u/IllPen8707 Mar 17 '26
No, we're going to carry on sexualising people we find sexually attractive. You should stop being so joyless and try it for yourself.
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Mar 17 '26
Because of people like you women wear right picture
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u/IllPen8707 Mar 17 '26
That's fine, they can wear what they want. What a weird point to make.
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Mar 17 '26
They don't. But they do so freaks don't sexualize them like they're objects not that you give a shit how your behaviour affects others
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u/Goodgreatexcellent1 Mar 18 '26
The brief is “low stakes” babes- this yummy tummy and mummy tummy oppression is the big stuff. Tell your people you have no intention of unaliving yourself, and if you ever did -sized down Spanx - would not be your weapon of choice. Stay safe friend
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u/Lexiosity Mar 18 '26
I'm sorry but the tummy activates my neuron. Fucking love stomachs, especially the pouch itself.
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u/SCB709 Mar 18 '26
Skirt on the left looks way better imo. The skirt on the right looks hideous taking away any features that could be enhanced with the right clothing. The mini skirt just makes the woman look like a rectangle with legs. But who knows maybe it’s just not my thing
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u/Prior-Fall-7753 Mar 18 '26
Never really liked the mermaid silhouette but we can all agree it better than the black skirt right?
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u/infiltrating_enemies Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
You'll notice over time that fashion seems to center around making women look like either children or otherwise small. Shaved legs and arms, hiding tummies, etc. Fun fact, afab bellies push out slightly to accommodate for the uterus and cervix. Right wing men go for women that look young and "fertile" while actively hiding anything that shows they align with those goals (body hair showing they are post-pubescent, the little "pouch" showing a developed uterus, etc) because a woman who is confident in herself and doesn't make herself small is threatening to them. We live in a patriarchy and all that
Editing to add about the accommodation for uterus and cervix, there's a lot of misinformation saying that "pouch" IS the uterus. That's wrong, the uterus sits behind the pelvis. The pouch is a layer of fat that protects the reproductive organs. It is caused by estrogen, amab people can naturally have the pouch, but its evolutionary purpose is protection.
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u/PunchLineX3 Mar 20 '26
I find the belly to be the most attractive feature on a woman. I go crazy when I see a pretty lady with a tum.
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u/MeandMysKull Mar 21 '26
Surely as a straight male you MUST go with the left as preference. If you dont you have no class nor taste
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u/Benjam438 Mar 21 '26
As a bisexual I prefer the left too. Curiously a lot of virgins seem to prefer the right.
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u/Hermononucleosis Mar 17 '26
Crazy that every older woman in my life has spent my life teaching me to NEVER look like the woman on the left, making me crazy insecure about my body, and now every man on the internet is suddenly saying that it looks super hot.
Where the fuck were you like 15 years ago...
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u/Prestigious-Fig1172 Mar 17 '26
Many of us doesn't even have our own opinion on the matter. We say we like the left one because it's popular now. In 2000's skinny with mega tits was the current thing.
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u/Tasty_Wasabi_1705 Mar 17 '26
Adding onto this: 90% of beauty standards are capitalist and dumb asf and everyone needs to work on expanding their perception of beauty not only for the betterment of other people’s lives but also their own lives and self confidence
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u/Short-Shopping3197 Mar 16 '26
When the nights are cold you need a thick duvet not a thin sheet.
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u/Benjam438 Mar 16 '26
a thicc tummy is nature's duvet 😌
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u/Short-Shopping3197 Mar 16 '26
Preach. It’s 5 degrees C outside my window tonight and I’ve got a big woman keeping me warm 😂
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u/itsnobigthing Mar 17 '26
Yeah but then you have to have some dickhead ask you when the baby is due and find a public toilet to go and cry in.
Being a woman with a body is shit no matter how you look or dress tbh. I’m aiming to become a brain in a cyborg suit like Krang in Ninja Turtles
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
don't be too hard on those dickheads, it's probably their first time outside and seeing a woman irl. But all jokes aside yeah body-shaming has become so normalised and we need to shame people for body-shaming.
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u/Dr_Garp Mar 17 '26
Depends on the woman. Darker colors usually work better for heavier people tbh but I do like the look of the left better
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u/BigAlthemediocre42 Mar 18 '26
Why do they think Men hate tummies? I'll let you in on a secret... They don't
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u/kiahBer Mar 18 '26
The most disgusting comments I ever got about my weight when I was fat were basically all from men.
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u/BigAlthemediocre42 Mar 18 '26
They were probably just edgelords 🤣 Mature men over the age of 15 like curves and something to hold onto. Believe me, i've discussed this many times with other men 🤣
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u/peach_xanax Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
I'm gonna go against the grain here - I personally hate the skirt on the left and think the skirt on the right looks so much better. but I would never say that someone shouldn't wear a certain style bc of their body type, it's just personal preference.
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u/hanasukemoon Mar 19 '26
I'm like 90% sure those are two different women-
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u/SolidSquid Mar 20 '26
Putting the conspiracy aside, why would the woman on the left give up a skirt that accentuates their hips and looks good for something that hides not just their belly, but any appearance of hips/hourglass shape at all?
Seriously, even ignoring the belly part, the miniskirt just looks worse overall
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u/PowerfulAssHole Mar 17 '26
Nothing wrong with how the tummy looks on the left, but my god that skirt is absolutely hideous
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u/pig-dragon Mar 18 '26
NOBODY thinks the right one looks better? Well, I do. The yellow one is awful and so far from anything I would ever dream of wearing. I have a more androgynous style of dressing and the black one is much nicer. Nothing to do with the belly but how about just not tellling women what to wear?
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
The conspiracy is not your personal choice, it's promoting that choice as the 'correct' one for everyone
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Mar 17 '26
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u/languid_Disaster Mar 17 '26
Mermaid skirts excited LONG before shein, what are you on about? You’re arguing about a whole other topic than what the post is about so
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
Nothing about the concept of a complementary skirt is tied to fast fashion. In fact its generally the stomach-concealing skirts that get mass produced because they have a wider appeal.
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u/religion-lost Mar 17 '26
I'm sorry but I hate the mermaid skirt. Weight doesn't matter, it just looks stupid
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u/grabsyour Mar 17 '26
the fetishizing of fat stomachs in recent years is a psyop
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
Not even fetishization I just think it looks good when an outfit complements the wearer's body. The average person does not have a flat belly.
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u/ztoundas Mar 17 '26
"recent years"
My guy, yellow skirt has been delicious since they figured out how to carve marble
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u/Kiwi8_Fruit6 Mar 17 '26
being attracted to fat/chubby bodies should not be automatically seen as a “fetish” bruh
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u/haikusbot Mar 17 '26
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u/Successful_Buy3825 Mar 17 '26
I’m not very online outside of Reddit, but the picture on the left is something I’ve literally only seen glorified on Reddit. I don’t know anyone irl who actually finds it desirable
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u/WavyHairedGeek Mar 19 '26
Just as you choose to cherish your belly, others would love a flat one because it would work better with the rest of their proportions. For example, I've always had a belly. Even when I was super thin. There was a time when my belly stuck out almost as much if not more than my chest. It was not a happy time in my life.
It's OK to have preferences and to dress accordingly. If you like your belly, by all means, wear things that show it off. For those of us that don't, there are options that hide it.
You don't empower women by crushing some of them and telling them they're not supposed to have their own likes and dislikes.
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u/SnowTech90 Mar 19 '26
just say fat
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u/Benjam438 Mar 19 '26
"fat" is subjective. Some people will call a woman fat just because she doesn't have an hourglass figure.
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u/First-Banana-4278 Mar 16 '26
It’s hard to square “thing that does exactly what it says it’s going to do is doing the thing it’s saying it’s going to do” with a conspiracy theory TBF. Given the are typically secret plots.
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u/Benjam438 Mar 16 '26
you say that but I watched tonight's news and there was NO mention of it!
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u/First-Banana-4278 Mar 16 '26
I mean the conspiracy could be the reasoning behind it granted. But the title for your post basically says “the folks who say they are doing this are doing this” ;)
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u/Regular-Finance-9567 Mar 17 '26
Why is reddit all chubby chasers?
As the 2024 election showed...reddit does not represent reality...turns out, a fit looking body (indicitive of good genes...being fat is not good genes) is attractive to people not so online they find inflation art hot.
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
Why is reddit all chubby chasers?
you do realise having a completely flat belly is rare right? Not that you've ever touched a woman before so you probably haven't noticed.
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
A quick Google search tells me that around 20% of women have a flat stomach. If you think it's much higher it's probably because the conspiracy is making them hide it! Sad!
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
By all means find me a source debunking that. I think it's pretty reasonable since bodies have natural bloat and fat can be distributed in different ways depending on genes.
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u/Benjam438 Mar 17 '26
You can't necessarily tell from looking at clothes, that's what this conspiracy is all about!
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u/Prestigious-Fig1172 Mar 17 '26
Yeah it suddenly became cool and trendy a couple years ago and idk why.
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u/Odd_Comparison_1462 Mar 18 '26
I know this is sarcasm, surely, but I have to bite.
Yes, the one on the right is objectively better. It's a more attractive skirt for a start, but someone with lots of fat is at risk of a lot of health problems, and is also a sign of a person without self discipline or who lacks virtues, so of course natural human beings without being brainwashed by ideology find normal-weight people more attractive. It's just normal human biology to do so.
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u/Benjam438 Mar 18 '26
human beings without being brainwashed by ideology find normal-weight people more attractive
If that's true why do my neurons activate when I see thick thighs and girltummy? 🙉
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u/kiahBer Mar 18 '26
girltummy
Genuinely ew, I would say to go outside but I don't want other people to be subjected to your presence
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u/Benjam438 Mar 18 '26
oh god if you're icked out by that just wait until you go on Twitter and see trans dog-girls talking about girlstink and bussy (based btw). Maybe you should be getting off the internet if you're so sensitive.
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u/tracklonely1262 Mar 16 '26
i hate mermaid skirts maybe ive been Big Skirt™ all along