Why can some chubby woman be popular, while others are not?
What makes the difference ?
Weekly SPA! No. 3/26, March 18, 2013) (NSFW banner ads)
{Giga-goofy Google Translate} ---In Japan, both men and women have thought in the past that a person cannot be both popular and fat...
...That may be changed with the recent launch of "la farfa" fashion magazine for larger women. In that new magazine interviewed Ms. Habayashi, a 103kg, self-proclaimed ‘Love Counselor,’ who said that, "…a decade ago, men who professed plump love were treated as fetishists." Recently however, …men can easily say that they like a woman plump…more…farfa.jp
Linked to the Weekly SPA story were screenshots of a Japanese TV program showing the results of a survey of 100 people revealing that “chubby” popularity has overwhelmingly increased---88 to 12. SPA went on to say that women being "plump, proud and popular" has become, "rampant in society" and that this could be, "evidence of reverse brainwashing by the media in recent years...
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