Vegetable legs

I just knew I'd be carrot legs!

Don't at all mind women's legs being compared to vegetables.

They all look good to me

They all look the same to me (on the link.)
Mine are like birds legs, spindleshanks.

Because it's the Daily Wail of course! TBH if the link had been to the DM it would have saved me the time of clicking -yet another Adm non-story!! (and mine are probably parsnips!!. )

That should be DM non-story, why does my iPad think it knows best? Must be a man.

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This is a link to the original article - what else can one expect from that once-proud organ?
It says something like 40% of women over 50 are 'unhappy' with the shape of their legs.
Really? It's bad enough that young women are pressured into Botox, breast implants etc but depressing that 40% of grownup women still feel unhappy with one or more aspects of their bodies, because of media pressure to be perfect.
Yes I know this article is supposed to be about a piece of 'research'...... Pull the other one.

Marrow but I prefer inverted champagne bottle

This is a story about a story creating a story! Never before have I heard of women's legs being compared to vegetables!

You have now, anno!

Do men mind when their "six packs" are referred to? Is a carrot worse than a bunch of cans of beer?

Genuine questions. A lot of modern feminism seems to me to be objections to people talking about women's bodies. Some of it I struggle with because I think we should just shrug it off. The more we react, as in that tweet, the more people tease, compare to vegetables, etc.

Why do we care so much what men (but mainly, perhaps, other women) think of our bodies? why does it seem to matter so much? Is it because, actually, biologically, it does matter, or did until recently when we could begin to overcome fitness and health problems that could, possibly were, seen as biologically 'unsound'. I'm trying to pick my words carefully here. Not sure I'm succeeding. But the point is, I'm genuinely puzzled about this whole issue of women displaying (as many do; I've used that word in a biological sense to mean in a similar way to how other animals display 'fitness', such as birds' colourful and extravagant feathers, lions' manes, and so on) and then complaining when other people make comments on the display. I'm thinking that if other animals could talk they be just the same.

Forget vegetables, mine are birds'legs. Sparrow or Swan, the latter when I appear calm and serene but am paddling like hell to keep afloat, the former 'cos they are twig-like from the knee down.

Waits for jingle to say I'm over-thinking

Like it, ogm! I don't think of my legs as comparable to vegetables and I don't care if someone else does.

Turnip head
Couch potato
Cauliflower ear

I'm trying to think of other parts of the body described as vegetables

Biologically hard-wired to care I'd say. Being seen to be the best mate to further the species - and visa-versa.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is it not?
Perhaps 'leg' men have differing preferences to carrots, marrows or champagne.
Perhaps women prefer six-packs and strong thighs over man boobs.

Is the objection to do with the feeling that commenting on physical appearance ( as happens to women more often than men) in the media undermines the value of women as intellectual /thinking people? Is the frequent references to women's appearance &and dress imply they need to look a certain way to be considered worthwhile? Is there a value judgement being made in saying 'look at those marrow/ parsnip legs! Mine for the record might be described as aubergine..but stumpy will do!

Sorry using phone and so missed lots of errors in grammar b4 posting!

For your sake, Penstemmon, I do hope that 'aubergine' doesn't describe the colour of your legs.

Bags I don't think that making yourself look reasonably presentable in the hope of attracting a mate, which I agree is a normal biological process, is at all the same thing as 'displaying' large expanses of flesh in a tabloid newspaper.
And that normal biological process doesn't justify women being judged on their appearance in spheres other than that of attracting a mate - writing books, for example. When Colleen McCullough died last week, several obituaries, including I believe The Australian, which should have known better, started off by condemning her physical appearance

I have no idea which shape my legs are because I have never studied them! They are just legs!

I have said this before but will say again. I think equality of gender means that people should be free to dress and adorn in ways to please themselves rather than others or others' expectatìons/manipulations.

TG for trousers! (And short sight)

Very true, penstemmon.

The article doesn't specify which way up the vegetables are!

janer I am amazed that you have never studied your legs. I was always worrying about my thighs being too fat when I was a young teenager, not helped by a neighbour saying 'ooh, tree trunks' when she saw me in my shorts.

minimouse legs being the shape of an inverted carrot defies the imagination!