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FROM CURVY HIPS to thin waists, and buxom breasts to flat chests, the ‘ideal’ female body shape has differed in many ways over the years.
This Buzzfeed video zooms through 3,000 years of history to show us how different societies’ views of the ‘ideal’ or desired shape has changed. Suffice to say, it’s an eye-opening watch.
While some societies favourited ample curves, the trend for the 20s and 90s, in Western societies anyway, was to aim for a female body that was lithe and curve-free.
We’re not all built the same, so it’s not as though everyone during those eras looked the exact same. But these ‘ideals’ show how perfection can mean different things at different times.
Plus, can there be an ‘ideal’ body shape when everyone is built differently, particularly when that ‘perfect ideal’ keeps changing?
What do you make of the video?
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Strikes me as a little odd reporting sentences as a combination. It’s as if article is attempting to make their punishment out to be more severe than it actually is.
When you consider the fact that prisoners very often only serve about half of their sentences the headline might be more accurately written as
“Three brothers will spend roughly 3-4 years each in prison after string of robberies”
@Derek Murphy: and after effectively ensuring that severall sma towns and villages will no longer have ATMs.
Irish Judges: robbing banks?? 20 years!!
Also Irish Judges: se.x.ually assualted your own kids for a decade? Meh.. 5 years. Out in 3.
@Rob Gale: It’s actually 20 years combined.
@Hannah: They gave someone 30 years for kidnapping a wealthy business man. But do it to a child for their whole life and you get a suspended sentence. It’s shocking really. If we can give large sentences like that for these crimes how can they justify not giving them for child abuse?
@Rob Gale: neither sentence is anywhere near enough, joke
@Jonathan Barr: I fully agree with you.
We seriously need more prison spaces in this country.
@Chris Mc: why not export our prisoners to countries willing to take them. Who says they have to be imprisoned here ? The cost of a prisoner per year in ireland is easily in excess of 100k. Put that out to tender. The Chinese might house them for 10k per year. Going to prison might not be seen as so cushy then…..
Bit of a joke headline – 20 year combined. That means nothing – the two longest sentences were 8 yrs 9 months, with one year suspended. That means about 5 years and 10 months with remission! Very dishonest journalism!
@Ciaran Leonard: actually that would be 6 years and 6 months with standard remission
Is the €790,000 nicely tucked away for the release in a couple of years?
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