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Hang on Girls, We're Comin'

Though they stuck it in the LifeStyle Section towards the back and in the lower left hand corner, this little USA Today poll did not escape my attention. God bless the customer who brought the newspaper into my place and left it where I can see it. Because sitting within those pages was something that I had suspected all along, and it should give the gals here reason to break out the champagne, slap on the party hats and get down.

A couple of USA Today female writers decided to go out and actually ask men what they liked as far as the physical build of a woman. What a novel concept that is. Someone actually taking the time to pull a member of the opposite sex aside, and, without peer pressure, let him say what he really thinks. And the results are in. Fat Girls Rule.
Bringing up the rear of this poll is what too many of you ladies, even in this sector, think that men want. And thank God for independent thinking, because only 24% of the men like the women that you see on the front of Cosmopolitan and the waiflike stick figures you see in a Calvin Klein ad. Situated in the middle is what was termed the "athletic build". I guess that would be roughly modeled after a Russian weightlifter. 35% of the boys said they preferred an athletic build. Evidently 35% of my brothers like their sex on the rough side. But leading the parade, and get ready for this: 45% (clearly the aware and enlightened group) said they preferred the "full figured woman". In other words, for you ladies who thought FA's resided mainly (and sparsely) in the closet, you better hire a contractor and expand that closet out to something more akin to Grand Central Station.
When this many guys are saying they love the curves and the folds, then it's only a matter of time before a lot of them will get the hint that it's AOK to step out of that closet and not get branded an unmentionable. Because when the guy next to you says, "hey, this is what I prefer," it'll start setting off the subtle chain reactions that will break it wide open. It wasn't all that long ago that guys would not have even responded positively in a poll like this. They wouldn't even have admitted to themselves what their hearts really desired. But the subtle changes in society are allowing men to be more honest with each other and state their preference. In time, that White Knight of yours won't be holed up anywhere; he'll be roaming around on that White Steed trying to find out where the heck you're hanging out.
So hang in there. Keep your eyes open. The party's just begun.

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