Is it just me or is "almost every woman you meet trying to claim they have 'thick thighs' as a trend?"

TL;DR If the rest is too long, what I mean is EVERY woman I meet, regardless of how skinny or chubby is claiming to have "thick thighs," even if their thighs are super skinny and not thick at all. It seems like some sort of trend, and I'm wondering where it came from...

I've noticed this, and I found it kind of funny and ridiculous...on one hand it's good to normalize a greater variety of body types rather than just glorifying super skinny supermodel body types; but on the other hand I think it's kind of silly to claim your body is one thing when it's clearly another. Like a person with a small nose claiming to have a big nose, or vice versa. Or a person with brown eyes claiming to have green eyes, or vice versa. You get the point.

Basically EVERY woman I know is claiming to have "thigh thighs," even if they're super skinny and clearly do NOT have "thick" thighs. Like I'm talking women who are only like 100 pounds maximum or below with obviously very skinny arms and legs claiming they have thick thighs.

This is not to shame skinny women who have thin thighs or anything like that, but it's kind of silly to claim you have thick thighs when they clearly aren't thick at all.

Vice versa it'd be just as ridiculous too...aka women with clearly very big and full thighs claiming that their thighs are "too small" or "very thin."

I'm just sort of wondering WHERE and WHY this "trend" started...

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SW-User

It's not a trend. Women constantly feel the need to comment on their bodies because someone is always looking at us. Some are so fkd up by this they will put themselves down just to hear some feedback. Validation.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@SW-User I never talked ill about my looks to get validation. It's body dysmorphia and the problem is that the person doesn't like how they look for themselves, not somebody else. Therefore it doesn't matter how much someone else will persuade you how good you look, their opinion doesn't matter to you because you're fixated on some specific appearance. The main problem here is excessive self-centeredness and unhealthy fixation on one's appearance.

RandomPersonThings · 22-25

@SW-User Ah...that makes perfect sense, actually. It really just comes to show how fucked up society itself is. Beauty standards themselves are just poison. All it does is make the feel people who DO fit the beauty standards feel good, while making all the other people who DON'T fit into it feel bad...women definitely have it worse in this regard, though men do sometimes face this as well, though on a lesser level. Like with height or penis size, primarily. And man boobs are usually seen as unattractive too. But that's kind of as far as it goes.

RandomPersonThings · 22-25

@CrazyMusicLover Ah yes...people are often their own worst critic. People are often obsessed with stuff about themselves that the vast majority of people probably don't even notice. When someone is THAT insecure and self-centered then nothing anyone else says to them will get rid of their insecurity. Only they themselves can get rid of it, from within. Therapy and meds probably help, though that's not the only thing, obviously.