Mmm, I do see Katlaughings point. And I understand why she would want what she perceives to be a thread demeaning to women to be closed.

Yet I see it as a pertinent thread for this day. Not only for the reasons it was initiated, but for the responses it has already gleaned, and for the highly immediate issues it is already in its short life, initiating debate about.

Yes, the thread was initiated not in a "let's discuss this sensibly" in a grownup fashion, but in a "Let's all joke about this circus freak" style fashion.

But, irrespective of that - or indeed maybe because of that - it has already evolved into a worthwhile discussion of contemporary values around the uses, abuses and misuses of contemporary Western defined images of the "idealised" female body.

I say let it stand. And I will contribute to it as it will no doubt rage on, in the best and most thoughtful ways that I am able.