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HatesParisHilton -> RE: Why are Big women called 'curvy'... (6/18/2009 7:45:20 AM)
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Just to move this thread in a slightly askew direction, but still an apt and applicable direction...
As an artist/illustrator/animator, I can tell you unreservedly that "curvy" means something entirely different (and rather specific) to people whom are (or have been) professionally paid to render/visually delineate physical female forms to what "curvy" means in current and commonplace parlance. It's like a specific range of red versus merely "warm" or "cool" red, or like a large subsection of - say - Pantone reds. Or Holbein finest oil colors. Dutch Vermillion Genuine means an inarguable visual difference to Cadmium Red Deep, and is a world away from Rose Madder or Bayeux Violet.
All of these, however, are "red".
To traditional visual animators, "curvy" would be The Bakshi Babe (such as the female leads in Hey Good Lookin' or Heavy Traffic), or a slightly more natural "Jessica Rabbit". These figures are not "Rubinesque". The ratios of concave to convex are obvious and apparent.
Many people use "Curvy" to be nice about their shape. Sometimes, they are too SKINNY to be "curvy", and in fact should be belaboured and remonstrated when they describe themselves as such or "voluptuous" when they are only a few inches "more" than Paris Hilton (please frefer to my username on that one).
Overly sexualized and under-educated is not "voluptous", neither is "I have almost no discernable waist".
I'm not coming down on any bodytype here. I am, though, irrascible when reading/hearing someone decide that the use of adjectives lis like a dim child with thick crayons and a crumpled coloring book, with the black lines being considered "a loose guide for furthered self-expression".
Yes, I'm been an art instructor before, too, and didn't allow students to be sloppy with terminologies pertaining to traditional painting techniques, either.
And to be fair, many people fuck up the use of "Big", too. Some women whom are not "big", merely "Yum Yum", have slinky siblings whom fit into size 4 (or less) jeans and therefore think that they themselves - at a USA size 12 - are "Big".
Oprah is Big, they are not. At her slimmest, Oprah was Curvy wid da badonkadonkasaurus. At her near-heaviest, losing most of her curve-to-waist disparity, she was Rubenesque.
And until she loses 98% of her fortune, none of it matters.
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