How beautiful is human body!
Before I go on writing, I must say, this note, the following passage is not to criticize anyone or any cult or culture. It is intended to be speculative.
It was long time ago when men, generally, preferred women with fuller-body. Today, all you see and notice is that everyone wants to be slimmer! Men or women without exception! You look around, and what you see are adds on the walls, on bus roof-tops, in the metro stations, in the newspaper, and so on, of a trimmed muscular men or young adult side tracked by a slimmer women, some times in a more showier outfits.
No offence, but this notion triggers my mind. If sick or healthy, we end up dead, so why bother with shape. But one may argue that it is not the shape, but rather being in good health that leads to such shape. But is this really true?
So let us put the idea under microscope. The notion of slimmer body, I assume comes from the era when for the first time medical doctors were working on human cadaver in the anatomy class! Let say, maybe earlier, from the time Da Vinci was sculpting, I am not so sure! But what I think happened was, in order to get to the lower layer of the body, during dissection, the medical students found it easier to reach, and so named it better body. During body cartography (anatomical atlas), then you see a man with both palms facing outward, standing straight, it was known as a better body posture. Why, maybe it was easier to manipulate. But was it healthy, back then, I have no idea, I was not there or have information on that aspect, but as far as I can think of, for those subjects to be presentable for medical show or cartography, the subject had to be poor and badly in need of money, so they can participate for such activities. Which can be extrapolated as someone that has lesser money than average people, has less focus on taking good care of them selves, which bring us to conclude that they are at that time where people of lower class or socioeconomic status. In the contrary, one may note that, maybe a medical student voluntarily posse for such activity, or even a medical doctor would do this for the sake of science. But we can note that, back then, higher education was only allowed for wealthier people.
So, is it possible that, today, after so many years of influence from the arts, medicine, and advertisement, the so called "nicer body" is equal to more bones and less meat, is based only on a myth!
I wonder!
Before I go on writing, I must say, this note, the following passage is not to criticize anyone or any cult or culture. It is intended to be speculative.
It was long time ago when men, generally, preferred women with fuller-body. Today, all you see and notice is that everyone wants to be slimmer! Men or women without exception! You look around, and what you see are adds on the walls, on bus roof-tops, in the metro stations, in the newspaper, and so on, of a trimmed muscular men or young adult side tracked by a slimmer women, some times in a more showier outfits.
No offence, but this notion triggers my mind. If sick or healthy, we end up dead, so why bother with shape. But one may argue that it is not the shape, but rather being in good health that leads to such shape. But is this really true?
So let us put the idea under microscope. The notion of slimmer body, I assume comes from the era when for the first time medical doctors were working on human cadaver in the anatomy class! Let say, maybe earlier, from the time Da Vinci was sculpting, I am not so sure! But what I think happened was, in order to get to the lower layer of the body, during dissection, the medical students found it easier to reach, and so named it better body. During body cartography (anatomical atlas), then you see a man with both palms facing outward, standing straight, it was known as a better body posture. Why, maybe it was easier to manipulate. But was it healthy, back then, I have no idea, I was not there or have information on that aspect, but as far as I can think of, for those subjects to be presentable for medical show or cartography, the subject had to be poor and badly in need of money, so they can participate for such activities. Which can be extrapolated as someone that has lesser money than average people, has less focus on taking good care of them selves, which bring us to conclude that they are at that time where people of lower class or socioeconomic status. In the contrary, one may note that, maybe a medical student voluntarily posse for such activity, or even a medical doctor would do this for the sake of science. But we can note that, back then, higher education was only allowed for wealthier people.
So, is it possible that, today, after so many years of influence from the arts, medicine, and advertisement, the so called "nicer body" is equal to more bones and less meat, is based only on a myth!
I wonder!
posted by Amir at 12:34 a.m.
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