"Everyone wasn't thinner in the past, and if they were than that's still a bad thing"

Henry VIII was seen as attractive when young, back when he was a muscular chad.

He became a bitter fatass after a jousting accident which severely injured his leg, leaving him unable to perform physical exercise

!historychads

>the king that was known for being so incredibly fat in later life that people do not remember anything else about him, except his series of wives

>probably has jeans in his size at Walmart today

It effectively points out that thinking fat is unattractive or not is a localized cultural thing, at least. Which gives them permission to dismiss the haters and build their own culture without “rejecting reality”

During this time black skin was unattractive for opposite reasons

>e̶x̶c̶e̶s̶s̶ w̶e̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ being skinny was seen as attractive. As it meant you were wealthy, because you could afford e̶x̶t̶r̶a̶v̶a̶g̶a̶n̶t̶ m̶e̶a̶l̶s̶ the gym

FTFY sweaty

And he lived to the ripe old age of 55 when the life expectancy was probably only like 40.

!biology !historychads for some reason our Upper Paleolithic ancestors were obsessed with these body types

LOOK AT ME CHUD. ENJOY MY BODY.