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I'd rate all three about the same, re: face. The raccoon eye liner doing one of the models no favors.
Nah. Unless your standards for 'great tits' are low and 'high, shapely D cup' which is maybe 1 in 30 women. From a practical point of view, yes they're great and any guy with hands-on access to such would and should strenously deny they're anything but perfect and impossible to improve upon. Women love hearing that kind of tinsel.
Anyway but when looking at glamour model geometry, that what gets the most attention and money is something like 'shapely F (DDD) or G' cup which while isn't much bigger is extremely rare, at least naturally. About as rare as a truly great face. Which Keira doesn't have. She's good looking in the 'good looking girl from your class' way, not 'school beauty' and definitely not 'movie star' like say, Monica Bellucci or Jennifer Conelly.
It’s quite a coincidence that the women men consider the most attractive (or “beautiful” to be polite) ever, and those two are good picks, also happen to have large... tracts of land.
Something that needs to be said more often is that keira, boobs or not, is just too thin, it's already slightly icky. There’s no point in being that skinny, it’s undesirable and it’s unhealthy, in that order.
I looked for pictures of both, and neither seems to be anywhere near the swimsuit models or the original blog's purported ideal in terms of size? Eyeballing from the photos I found and a reference chart, they look like maybe D-cups to me.
Yeah, they are constrained by reality and acting ability, it's considered classier to be famous for something else than your bust.
What is your thesis, exactly? That men prefer B-cups?
That the median man would prefer C- or D-cups to the blog's and the swimsuit models' much larger sizes (even if we assumed anime levels of sci-fi connective tissue), (edit) but either way, that the median man's preferences do not put nearly as much weight on cup size as the blog and some of the parent posts make the out to.
How would you go about justifying those ?
Because it’s not just AI on the opposite side, there’s that study about enhanced strippers making more money, porn actresses, insta models, why is page 3 for a nice chest such an institution, size of the breast enhancement industry, etc.
I don’t think you could find as many arguments in favour of your thesis as the blog’s, but assuming you did, and you wrote it all down, it would still be considered rude and ‘creepy’ to write such a long blog on sexual preferences. It would be ‘marginalizing’ to non-preferred women no matter what the preference ends up being, like ranking women 1 to 10 is controversial independently of the scale used. So some guy would inevitably show up to defend women and say it's all wrong and call the writer of this alternate thesis a nerd and a loser.
Now if you tell me this consideration consideration has nothing to do with your opinion, then I’ll grant the possibility that the blog is only applicable to ‘tit men’ (they'd still be a majority though).
Yeah, I don't care about these considerations. Whether or not they are a majority is a question that remains hard to judge, but I would maintain that at the very least they are unevenly distributed - I think I have an abundance of data on male preferences in my immediate environment, including both real targets and fictional characters, and the alleged tendency just isn't there. Would you want to posit that everything ranging from the crushes of German school boys to gacha-playing waifu collector degenerate whaling is preference falsification due to a desire to signal a common notion of high status?
To be clear, I don't doubt that there are significant subcultures/subcommunities of people where the majority preference is as stated in the blog. It's just that I suspect that those subcultures select on something that correlates with that preference, and/or induce that preference in their members. As a matter of fact, in the context of gacha communities, they like making their presence known - among others, a favourite pastime of theirs is to develop and use mods that give characters balloon tits and skimpy outfits, which they then post screenshots of in discussion threads without comment. It is evident that the message of the screenshot posting is intended to be somewhere between "I'm sticking it to Chinese censors" and "everyone actually thinks this is hotter, and I am getting to enjoy good things while you cucks are not", but even on 4chan (hardly a land of prosocial preference falsification), a majority of posters appears to find them obnoxious and have little interest in the mods.
For whatever reason, the "tit men" always seem to be desperate to assure themselves that everyone secretly shares their preferences, and they are just the only ones being honest about it, as opposed to them having a niche interest - there does not seem to be a counterpart to this among the "tit-indifferent men". This reminds me a little of the old AROOO lesbian separatist belief that women actually do not naturally enjoy sex with men, and the ones who do have just been brainwashed into it by society or the patriarchy, so I wonder if this is just a natural shape of cope that emerges among people with socially shunned sexual preferences.
So be it, I believe you when you say your preferences differ, I’m not all that invested in team tit.
Obviously the lesbian separatists have far more political, as well as personal, motives for their claims.
And I don’t know much about those bimboficater mods, but they seem to be a reaction to forced uglification and outright hostility to male sexuality (or as they call it, objectification) in gaming, but we don’t need to get into all that.
Because when your friend is within hearing distance of his flattish girlfriend he will always proclaim he loves small boobs above all others, when it contradicts everything you thought you knew about the man.
If liking big tits, as common and prominent as it is, is a socially shunned preference, then every expression of male sexual preference is socially shunned. Which it is, to a degree, see never-ending objectification complaints. Stuff like : You like asian women, that's fetishism. You don't like asian women, that's racism, etc.
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