In Defense of Barbie

I'm sure that Barbie's infamous figure doesn't maker her very popular with the feminist crowd. Neither are many of the findings claimed by biology researchers. With all due respect to the feminists, science isn't politically correct. By all means, fight for female equality in society but if a scientific discovery doesn't match up with a preconceived notion of how women should be seen, that's just too bad.

Feminists don't care for the ways that men are attracted to women. They don't like that we are so attracted to them physically and "objectify" their bodies. I'm sure that women are MUCH more civilized in their thinking of their attraction to men. (Sure they are. Tell that to the woman in the previous post who called men "meat" and "prey" when she was ovulating.) The theories of sexual partner selection provided by scientists have been called "the tits and ass theory of evolution" by feminists, who say that a woman's looks should have nothing to do with her ability to have a child.

A 2004 study would beg to differ. A Polish study took saliva samples from 119 women and measured them for 17-b-estradiol, an important fertility hormone in women. The women ranged in age from 24 to 37, were not using hormonal birth control and were not extremely over or under weight. They found that the women with narrow waists, wide hips and large breasts were more fertile than women of other body shapes.

Those women had a 30% higher estradiol level than others, meaning that they were three times easier to get pregnant. While large breasts are not necessarily tied to larger amounts of progesterone, another important fertility hormone, women with low waist to hip rations did tend to have higher progesterone levels. They article also mentions how a preference for low waist to hip ratios is a "universal feature" of male psychology.

Side note: The young women at the top of the post's name is Iga Wyrwal, a Polish born model living in Great Britain. She illustrates the point of this study very well. Not only does she have the body shape, she got pregnant at age twenty with her first child. Think back to the 2007 Polish study (posted May 11, 2010, "I Like Big Butts") that also claimed that voluptuous young women tended to get pregnant earlier in life. Case in point.

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