It was early in the blog…

*SNIFF*

In fact, I mostly agree with you in the post, but I guess I was pretty bad at explaining why some girls like this could start looking cute sometimes. In the end, it’s mostly a function of having been here a very, very long time. I guess like when you eats runny eggs and grits every day, and one day the eggs get accidentally “over”cooked to the point of being edible – then you think they are like what you remember eggs benedict used to taste like, only because your standards have dropped so far.

Know what I mean?

I don’t think it’s sexy. But I’m not a man I find that unless the girl is just cross-eyed and has a face full of acne the bar is pretty low re attraction. However, that’s not the point here.

I remember noticing the “thin obesity” here only recently. Young Korean women aren’t active. I noticed it when I saw Jeong Ji-hyun in that AnyCall commerical where she was doing a provacative striptease and the color of her shirt would change when she stripped one off. It was a cute commerical but I noticed she wasn’t really tight and firm. I’m not saying she’s a “thin obese” woman but she’s the one who made me notice it because back home she would have had to firm up before doing that commerical.

That’s the aesthetic I’m used to because I’m from L.A. where most, not all, but most women if they’re slim try to also exercise. That means there is some muscle tone. I notice the flabby skinny girs here a lot now. I see the comedy shows where they bust out the girls in cheerleading outfits and some have tiny rolls of fat (not skin that folds, I know the difference). I’m talking serious jiggles.

Although, of course, they’re much less jiggly than a bit and obese woman, but they’re jiggly. That’s kind of gross to me to be so thin yet to have so much fat. Icky.

Whatever floats your boat, but thin and fat is gross.

I also disagree that this is ghetto-fabulous. That’s kind of an insult to my inner-city roots. She’s thin, pale, fat and that’s not ghetto. That’s Korea’s own form of weirdness.