Talk:Spot reduction

While it is true that spot reduction is nonsense, the statement that fat distribution is "more-or-less uniform" is patently false. If it were true, mean and women would have almost identical bodies, the same way little kids do. (The fact that clothing is designed to best fit models who look like starving children may have confused the author on this point.) As for some people being "horribly distended" in their problem areas... ahem. I was once subjected to a bullying-fail by a pair of enormous-bellied idiots with thigh-gaps who thought anyone with bigger legs than them was "sucking it in". (Muscles take up room, people, and wheelchair-chic is *not* sexy.) I will call them horribly distended without shame.

It may be true that fat tends to build up where it has more room. Edwardian/Victorian women most-easily achieved 14-inch waists if they wore corsets daily from a young age, so that bones and muscles would not reach adult size, and of course, no room for fat either. I personally suspect the common modern big-belly-tiny-thigh female shape is the result of girls wearing bodycast-tight low-rise jeans every day for about 15 years, until hi-rise came back into fashion (notably, with waists about 8 inches larger than they were in the 90s for the same hip measurement.) But statements like that belong on the Talk page unless sourced. &mdash; Unsigned, by: 87.101.92.94 / talk