Comments on: The Woman of Tomorrow: Shorter, Plumper, & More Fertile

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:54:24 +0000

Isn´t this yet another study, which suggests, that the appearance of women is so extremely vital? At the same time the media complain about anorectic women and girls and also ladies and even little girls, who suffer from bulimia. Is it true, that most women are into tall guys only because of their height? I would consider that equally superficial.

By: Fo shizzle my____

Fo shizzle my____ — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:55:26 +0000

VaJ, we have to be able to talk about race when talking about population growth, if only to illustrate cultural drives to have children. In Asia more mouths mean more hands in farms and industry. In many under developed Lati American catholic countries, birth control is a sin. In Africa, birth control is often inaccessable.

In wealthier parts of the U.S., native born populations are growing far more slowly than immigrant populations moving in. In 50 years latin immigration/growth in the U.S. will equal the combined growth of white, black and asian populations.

In America’s inner cities there is a cultural acceptance of young single parenthood. That is not a racist statement. The babies of babies are born to a world with far more hardships and far less opportunity than babies born to women who wait until their late twenties and early thirties to have children.

By: VJ

VJ — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:34:59 +0000

Seems like we’ve gone from concern about overpopulation in 1970 (world pop. 3.6 billion) to pretending it doesn’t exist (world pop. 7 billion). Don’t go blaming other countries or some other race besides you own. Women are squeezing out babies everywhere. If the breeders I see are any indication, the women of tomorrow will be some pudgy, some athletic mommies, including the white middle class, ignorant and unconscious of overpopulation while complaining about “growth”, traffic, congestion, prices, housing shortages, crime, water shortage, crowded cities, pollution, food scarcity, rudeness, urban sprawl and loss of farmland, while squeezing out more babies and adding to the problem.

By: Fo shizzle my____

Fo shizzle my____ — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:06:23 +0000

I drive thru the west side of Chicago every day, um, I mean “West SiEEd!!” when kids are walking to school. They are like adolecent diabetic weeble wobbles. The study is flawed because these rollie pollies breed at 15, but won’t get a stroke til they reach 50. I don’t know tall from short, but if bad judgement is hereditary it explains why “West SiEEd!” is such a joy to drive by!

By: Ingela

Ingela — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:26:42 +0000

Wouldn´t the height of the fathers impact that of their daughters. Usually tall men are considered more attractive. Unless there is a preference for short persons of both opposite sexes there would be no net trend towards shortness.

By: Drivel

Drivel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:09:08 +0000

You have to wonder why we are even wasting money on studying something like this. What is average now and so what impact does 2 cm make in 400 years? All meaningless drivel.

Where is the study on men?

By: liu

liu — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:17:50 +0000

I think there are many leapholes in this study .How can we get the trend of evlution from a nowaday status?

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:37:08 +0000

Does it take into account the extra weight women gain having children? Women on average hold on to 3 – 4 pounds for every child they have. Finding heavier women in menopause have had more children could be an effect rather than a cause. The weight doesn’t have to come from pregnancy either, people gain weight just being married or in long term relationships, like the kind that produce children. In that case too the weight is not the cause of the children, but the children and the weight are caused by the relationship.

If all the variables are not thought of and taken into account, the study is pointless. The height factor is interesting though, but not necessarily correlated with male preference. I like them short and tall as long as they’re pretty. It could be taller women are more likely to be professionally minded and less likey to settle down with kids.

Correlational studies are interesting, but people tend to jump to conclusions and make mistakes. I like the studies that demonstrate a causal relationship better