And when people ask why women are so self conscious about their looks, I would just point to comments like this one...

Doing IT with Allie McBeal would be like sleeping with a stick. I'd be afraid she'd snap in half!

Pretty much all of the cruel comments about appearances on this thread are about women. And they are about women who are thin and women who are large. Is it any wonder when we face this kind of focus on our appearance every day of our lives by so many people, that we tend to focus a lot on this issue ourselves?

I wonder how the guys would feel if we talked about their appearances in the same kinds of terms that some of them are using here in this thread. I'm guessing they wouldn't love it.