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How times change. When I started working in an office a little over 20 years ago, you could still smoke at your desk. In fact, when you were shown the stationary cabinet on your first day in a new job you could kit yourself out with a stapler and sticky-tape dispenser as well as an ashtray.
In those days, ‘smoking or non-smoking?’ was an everyday question when checking in for an airline flight’, you watched the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup over summer and the Winfield Cup over winter and the back cover of almost every women’s magazine carried an ad featuring an attractive blonde, a beach, acres of cheesecloth and a packet Alpine.
At about the same time blokes would go to the beach in the middle of the day, shirtless and hatless, while women would lay for hours baking themselves to a golden brown while occasionally basting themselves with coconut oil. Sun protection was not standard work issue for workers out of doors and sunshirts and sensible hats had the same sartorial appeal as sandals with long socks.
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ALMOST 70 per cent of men say that a woman’s face is much more important than her breasts, legs or figure, a Punch survey of male attitudes on female body image has found.
And almost two-thirds of men believe that women spend far too much time worrying about their appearance, and should spend less time fretting about what men think - because you are all much hotter than you think you are.
The Punch has today assembled this special package of pieces about female body image through the eyes of blokes. Much of it is framed around our 100-man survey, but also includes columnist Joe Hildebrand talking about his love of fat chicks and former Zoo Weekly online editor Chris Deal’s essay on why men are as dumb as you probably suspect they are.
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Drew (Darlinghurst) says:
Women…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz BORING im Camp as Christmas. Read more »
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Carol says:
Yeah, right. From what I’ve experienced, looks are the more important factor for men. Men will pick the Playboy bunny before Time’s Woman of the Year. Personality is always secondary. Read more »
Are you gonna take me home tonight?
Ah down beside that red firelight?
Are you gonna let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round. - Queen, 1978
My name’s Joe Hildebrand and I like fat chicks.* My best friend Byron likes fat chicks. My other best friend Matt likes fat chicks. My other best friend Darrin is actually fat himself. Even Queen likes fat chicks, and they’re all gay.
Yet fat chicks seem to think that nobody likes them at all.
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bigmumma says:
i liked this, i enjoyed reading it and it made me feel a little more confident about the way i look, i am 20 years old and i am a size 22, i have been a big girl all my life and i hate the way guys always take digs… Read more »
A little known fact I like to trot out at feminist rallies and family gatherings is that I use to work for the esteemed gentlemen’s periodical, Zoo Weekly magazine. Officially my title was Online Editor, but unofficially it was You Tube surfer and talker to the hottest chicks planet earth has ever produced.
Sadly my tenure at the Encyclopaedia Tit-tanica was brief, and a decision that to the male ego sounds like the frothy rantings of a mad man. In bloke-speak the phrase “I quit a job at Zoo Weekly” roughly translates to “I’m a frightful shirtlifter, pass the amyl and pump up the Right Said Fred”.
But after I’ve stopped trying to use my penis for a brain, not only is the fleshy mirage of life at a lad’s mag revealed, but so too are a few finer points of the deluded male mind.
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Ally says:
So it turns out Megan Fox is engaged again… Does that put her in the “other” file now?!? heh. Read more »
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Ms A says:
Good luck Country Mum. I hope you find the happiness that you deserve. Read more »
These are the raw numbers for the female body image survey.
1. Which of these physical qualities do you value most highly in a woman?
A.) Pretty face 68
B.) Great breasts 8
C.) Nice legs 8
D.) Perfect fat-free figure 16
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Lisa says:
I agree that this girl is gorgeous. I would much rather look like her than the way I do, I am one of those “skinny wannabes” I am skinny, slim hipped, flat chested and and there is nothing I can do about it. it’s how I’m built. I feel pressure… Read more »
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Lisa says:
The thing about models is that they are not selected to represent ‘sexual woman’. They are, like jockeys, selected to do a job: show the clothes off properly. IRL they can look rather peculiar, being incredibly tall and even odd-looking. Like Francis, who wrote on Mia’s blog: I think Penbo’s… Read more »
Hi. My name is Ashlee. I’m a 24 year old Australian woman. I have a relatively successful media career for my age, given the current economic climate. I currently live and work in Indonesia. I have always tried to give back to the communities in which I live through volunteering and I don’t have a criminal record. I do have a gym membership though. I’m doing OK. Oh, but I forgot to add, I am fat.
Actually, I should say obese, according to my BMI.
And apparently this makes me some kind of social pariah who should be the target of intense public ridicule and scorn, no matter what food I may or may not put in my mouth, no matter how many times a week I work out.
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rrr says:
Happy - That sound you hear is the point whizzing right over your head. Did you even read the post? Read more »
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Naomi says:
Absolutely. My male friend has less than 4% bodyfat from working out obsessively at the gym, but due to his muscle mass (muscle weighs more than fat) his weight puts him in the obese category of BMI (31). Instead we should be focused less on the outside and more on… Read more »
David Penberthy’s health sandwich is laden with a generous helping of cynicism and a pinch of exaggeration.
By calling for a reduction of the harmful fats in our food, Bob Carr is not seeking to ban fast food outlets. Instead, he is highlighting how easy it would be to make our takeaway foods substantially healthier.
Australians love to eat out - nearly one in three of us do so almost every day, which adds up to a massive 3.8 billion meals eaten out every year.
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Turkey says:
Some splash in the grey while others swim in the black and white. Either way individual health is a community responsibility so let us make an infomed decision and provide the healthy alternative. It’s been a while since I have ordered grilled fish and received dirty looks! Read more »
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Dan says:
So Paul, because I don’t have a black & white view, I’m flip flopping? Yeh right. Here’s a shock for you; not every issue is black & white, and neither is every issue involving cancer. Cigarettes cause cancer, but should they banned? Some say yes, other might say no. It’s… Read more »
Our supposedly classless society is showing signs of being divided into two camps where people’s private choices as individuals and their behaviour as families are regulated on the basis of their affluence.
And it’s in the area of nutrition, preventative health and exercise where the working class, for want of a better term, is increasingly being treated like a bunch of babies, while the more affluent members of society continue to live as they please.
It’s only a small thing but it’s a signifier for the times, a demonstration of a mindset which holds that working class people are unable to modify their behaviour, while the gentry can be trusted to keep its conduct in check. But get along to the SCG, that great people’s arena, where our knockabout, egalitarian society lets the members drink as much full-strength beer as they want and limits the great unwashed to light beer.
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Sir Lolsworthy says:
Yes, E, that’s exactly what I said. Thank god someone was able to work it out. In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic. Get your hands on copies of ‘Fast Food Nation’ and ‘Don’t Eat This Book’ if you want to learn about the realities of the situation Read more »
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Sophie says:
I blame the baby boomers. Aspirational… apathetic and about to become a massive burden on the healthcare system. Read more »
Several years ago scientist David Suzuki observed that humans have an innate need to be connected with nature, even if it’s only a nearby park or a tree in the backyard.
Australians, who have always expressed nature as part of their national identity, are manifesting this observation more than ever before.
In a recent study looking at a range of social issues related to modern living a surprisingly high number of participants reported growing their own vegetables or herbs at home.
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Bob H says:
@Gordon (the Garden Gnome) - Your Garden has become a tool for media fashionistas, I bet your garden was previously an house extension fashion statement complete with scatter cushions. The recent craze for planting veggies and housing chickens(no snake problems then) is the latest in Gardening fashion trends to be… Read more »
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Sloth says:
Again, this is precisely the problem with non-lawyers attempting to tell people what the law is. Indeed, this is unsurprising; the vast majority of actual lawyers can’t get it right, what hope does the general population have? Nevertheless, the Food Act (WA) does contain a definition of sale. That definition… Read more »
Restaurant award season is finally over. But I’m wondering if anybody really cares outside those who won gongs from the Sydney Morning Good Food Guide this week, The Age version last week and Gourmet Traveller the week before.
Certainly, there has barely been a blip in the blogger or Twitter sphere.
Once again, the old-media appointed arbiters of taste have taken one for the team by eating the finest foods known to Aussies with the usual predictable conclusions: plenty of excellent but very very expensive restaurants in Sydney; only two of these in Melbourne plus lots of very good moderately priced restaurants; not much else in Australia. Forget Tasmania.
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Vernon Brabazon says:
From my experience in journalism, I would suugest that if restaurants stopped giving freebies to journalists in order to encourage them to write about their menus, then there might a lot less written about such places. Read more »
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Stefano says:
tandah says: 09:17am | 10/09/09 IHamburger! Hamburger! - Australian’s say ‘hamburger’ not burgers! @ tandah Yo, bro, fries with that? Dude! Sides? How quickly is our language being ruined? Very quickly! Read more »
Does anyone else find it quite frankly perverse that in affluent first-world Australia so much time is spent fretting about the supposed weight problems of our children when UNICEF figures show five thousand kids across the globe die every day essentially because they can’t get a clean glass of water?
I sure as hell do. But here we go again. Last week the Rudd Government’s Preventative Health Task Force Report called for a ban on junk food advertising on TV before 9:00pm and for the use of toys, cartoon characters and celebrities that appeal to children to be phased out. But the Australian Communications and Media Authority is against the banning of those TV ads.
The reaction? A seething white-hot fury coming from nice middle class homes all over Sydney. How can anyone possibly put corporate profits before our kids’ health?
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Stephen says:
I see the left-wingers keep bringing out the adolecent argument that if advertising didn’t work then why would the industry do it. Of course advertising works - it makes people shift from McDonalds to KFC, from KFC to Burger King. So it works for the individual company, not for the… Read more »
It’s that time of year, isn’t it? When the intention to eat healthily just doesn’t result in the same. Puritanical thoughts of eating only soup for dinner somehow morph into soup plus half a loaf of buttery toast. Steamed fish and vegies ends up as steak with cheesy potato bake.
A roast with all the trimmings is a regular occurrence and apple crumble is, somehow, always okay. Yes, the winter weather is dictating my diet and I have no choice, do I? It’s rather impossible not to put on the “winter two”. Or three, or four.
And as we reach August, this means I’m stuck wearing what fits. One, my fat jeans, or two, my leggings - marvellous creations with lots of stretch. But of course, I’m sick of both. (See boys, when we say “I don’t have anything to wear”, we often mean “I can’t fit into anything in my wardrobe”). I’m afraid that looking great in winter is only achievable if you’re Gwyneth Paltrow. Aka, Wonder Woman.
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James says:
VM, I agree, I did say “it all depends how far you want to take it”. It just seems you’ve picked one moment in human history but ignored another (when seeds etc. weren’t eaten) I’d suggest you check your facts about uric acid, some grains/seeds/ legumes can produce just as… Read more »
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VM says:
James, the “Way nature intended” is a very long bow to draw. Did nature intend for us to have power stations and heaters because we have the intelligence to do so? Skyscrapers? well how about Mud Huts? Trust me, I’m no crazy hippy. Humans may be adaptive creatures, but there… Read more »
I’ve long suspected what the secret to happiness is, and now I’ve got proof. It comes courtesy of the Nerve Gut Research Laboratory at the University of Adelaide.
It’s not love or money or success.
It’s definitely not in a self-help book.
It’s a good sleep and a good poo. It’s that easy.
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les says:
why does it take a degree to figure out the obvious, a good bonk , a good sleep, followed by a good defecating ecstasy experience ah life is good! and simple too. but why it has taken so long to get medical endorsement of these simple things in life? maybe… Read more »
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ol' larry says:
Sadly I’m missing the peaceful slumber part. It’s a long time since I woke up and thought “oooooooh yeah, that was a good one”. Thankfully, I get to say it about 30 minutes later, straight after breakfast. Read more »
Enforcing a blanket ban on advertising certain foods to children is not the answer to solving Australia’s obesity problem.
Activists and some politicians bleating for a ban on advertising high fat, sugar or salt (HFSS) foods on all media before 9pm need to get real.
Arguing that television adverts for HFSS foods are almost totally responsible for making people overweight, especially children, is an extraordinary leap of logic.
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G says:
We can all agree that us ‘normals’ really dislike obese people and it’s a base genetic response recoil at the site of them. Read more »
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Jayne P says:
My kids are young, for the small amount of TV they do watch is only the ABC -good quality preschooler shows WITHOUT ADVERTISING. The in your face advertising during kids shows on the commercial channels is digusting. Read more »
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