You know, people ask this kinda thing, “why do men like big bums?”. It’s funny, I never really thought about it much way back when. Things were different, I guess. Or maybe I just didn’t notice.
But then, maybe ten, fifteen years ago? I started seeing it more. Magazines, music videos, just… everywhere. It felt like a switch flipped. Honestly, I was a bit behind the curve on even noticing it properly.
My Own Little Journey With This
I remember talking to my buddy Dave about it. We were just hanging out one Saturday, trying to fix his leaky faucet, getting nowhere fast. We took a break, grabbed a beer, and were flipping through some channels. Some music show was on.
Here’s what went down:
- Dave just randomly goes, “Man, things have really changed, huh?”. He wasn’t talking about the faucet anymore.
- I looked up, saw the screen. Yeah, the style, the focus… it was different from the stuff we grew up watching.
- We started chatting about it. How the ideal body type you saw everywhere seemed totally different now.
- He mentioned his nephew, kid was always on his phone, looking at TikTok or something. Dave said all the girls the kid followed seemed to have that specific look. It was all about the curves back then, apparently.
It wasn’t like some deep, intellectual discussion. Just two regular guys noticing a shift in what was popular, you know? We didn’t land on a solid why. Is it just trends, like skinny jeans coming and going? Or something else? We didn’t know. We mostly just went back to arguing about the faucet.
I didn’t exactly run off and start researching evolutionary biology or anything after that. Life’s busy. But I did start noticing it more consciously after that chat. You see stuff online, scrolling through feeds. You hear younger guys talk, or just see what gets attention in media.
So, when someone asks “why?”, I don’t pretend to have the expert answer. I just think back to that afternoon with Dave, the leaky faucet, and just… noticing. Seeing the world change bit by bit. It’s like watching your neighborhood slowly transform over decades. You don’t always know the exact zoning reason for every new building, but you definitely see the skyline change. That’s kinda how this feels to me. Just something I eventually clocked happening around me.
