Everything you need to know about the "thigh gap"
In May, the #DefineBeauty campaign dedicated to the beauty of the body was launched on the Nowness media platform. At the time of this writing, it included several short films balancing on the verge of eroticism: "Les Fleurs" about the beauty of body hair, the ironic movie "Crème Caramel" about desire, "Beauty Is a Form of Genius" about how often people compare their bodies with strangers. The newest video of the series is dedicated to the so-called thigh gap - the universal test for beauty and thinness, the subject of many women’s desires, in other words, the structure of the legs, in which the inner surface of the thighs does not close.
The short film "The Magic Gap" was shot by the famous fashion photographer and director Guy Aros, who tried to ease the tension surrounding a controversial topic. The director admitted that, as a man, he had never known before about the existence of such a standard of beauty, so he interviewed New York passers-by about what a “magic gap” is, and almost none of them knew the correct answer. And yet, the methods of delivering an important message to the audience raise doubts: the discourse on the "magic gap" is conducted against the background of videos of very thin women, who have the notorious distance between the hips and whose faces we don’t even see. The video was instantly condemned and accused of objectifying the female body and unreasonably sexual problem.
They began to talk en masse about this standard of beauty in early 2013, and since then more than one video has been dedicated to it. So, comedians from CollegeHumor removed a sketch - a parody of the transfer of the historical channel, dedicated to the phenomenon of "thigh gap". In the video, scientists who "investigated the phenomenon in its natural habitat," come to the conclusion that the "thigh gap" (shock!) Does not bear any benefit to the body and means that its possessor has no right size.
"Thigh gap" and standards of appearance in general in his show studied and Stephen Colbert. Inserting serious facts, such as the fact that, on average, 20 million women in the United States at some stage suffer from eating disorders, Colbert ridicules the norms set by society and comes, in particular, to the conclusion that there is widespread insanity at the "thigh gap" It began because of unrealistic standards set by Spongebob.
Lose weight or not - the personal choice of each. But we think that in the case of dealing with incredible standards, laughter is still the best medicine.