Thread:KatnissEverqueen/@comment-1672596-20131227082459/@comment-1672596-20131228003840

KatnissEverqueen wrote: It is possible that there is a biological reason for a preference for large breasts (evidence of greater milk production and thus greater chance of healthy children, perhaps), and perhaps that is one of the reasons why the Japanese were so swift to take in American desires and aesthetics in a post-WWII environment.

As for France, the saying is by no means null, for there is a long history of its being representative of the standard of beauty in that country. For example, if one examins the Rehabilitation Trial of St. Joan of Arc, it is made quite clear that small, firm breasts are considered especially beautiful. Lady Liberty is fairly well-endowed in that picture you sent me, but I notice that the firearms are more advanced than the one used by Gaston. Perhaps his town simply maintained more traditional aesthetic values.

"Why Gaston, you are positively Mediaeval!" ;)

Well, since Beauty and the Beast is implied to take place just a few years prior to the French Revolution, let's keep the part about the wine glasses and breasts bit out of the Bimbettes' article, as things clearly changed from Joan of Arc's time (as I doubt that propaganda painting would have had much effect if she wasn't the standard of beauty). Regarding the weapons being more advanced, the village was implied to be a small backwater community. The revolutionaries in that painting were largely in Paris or one of the inner communities of what was then the Kingdom of France.

I think Belle called him Primeval, not "Mediaeval." Like I said, I'm not too trusting of Belle right now thanks to my experience in education, not to mention learning the kind of role Rousseau played in it. That, as well as various intellectuals ruining our lives, especially those of us who are religious (like you, I'm a Roman Catholic myself), whether its direct persecution via massacres or otherwise either lying or simply being stupid enough to fall for lies told about us. I know Hemmingway (of whom his love of reading was actually similar to Belle's) basically hated Christianity and was a militant atheist/communist-sympathizer, to the extent of looking the other way when the Stalinist Spanish forces during the Spanish Civil War culled their own numbers and doing unspeakable atrocities. There's also Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (the latter of whom I think, similar to Belle, hated the concept of being a housewife), who basically caused tremendous suffering via May 1968, supporting Che Guevara, supporting the Cambodian Genocide, and others. Several of my teachers made no effort to hide their contempt of Christianity and spread slanderous lies about them and how women were like before the 1960s (including the implication that they were largely illiterate before then), and I can't help but get the feeling from Belle being strongly implied to be an outcast in the village specifically because of her being capable of reading (despite the fact that the village was very likely to be Catholic and thus most likely have the villagers of both genders read at least the bible) may have been an attempt to implement that propaganda. I hope I'm wrong, but considering what I've experienced enough of this to recognize signs even a while back before I was aware of them, I'm afraid my hunch may be correct.