Response to the Bigger the Better?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e6FIVaZPeI – “Moulin Huge”
DPD’s post about the standard of beauty in Cairo is certainly interesting. It may seem like that the men of Cairo are more interested in chubby women, but from my point of view, due to the smaller world nowadays and more accessible media and images, the standard of beauty is quite universal. As the world becomes more modernized, people start to think less uniquely. The link above is a clip from a performance of four big lady dancers. Even though the performance is excellent and certainly entertaining, anyone would agree that the four ladies do not fit perfectly into the ideal category of sex appeal of the majority’s view; the crowd, however, still cheers for them and go wild. This performance can be compared as the equivalent to the belly dancing in Cairo. They Egyptian men of course enjoy watching the belly dancing show, because as MLD points out, it is possibly one of their only “sources of sexual enticements.” But this does not necessarily mean that they are sexually attracted to women who are very big, because it is well described that they are in fact more drunk as the show continues. Evident from the behavior of acquaintances that I have met from the Middle East, their views are not very different from ours. In conclusion, first, the text does not give enough information to argue logically that big women are conceived as the superior model of beauty in Cairo. Secondly, the view towards beauty of women around the world is almost universal because we live in such a tight world. Of course, life would be easier if the humankind did not get trapped inside the judgment by appearance, but unfortunately we are, and it brings many problems.
SL