Sometime last year I blogged about the thigh gap. This desperation to be thinner than our bodies support runs rampant in our young ladies' lives. And now there's a new culprit:
The Bikini Bridge.
What is a bikini bridge? Urban Dictionary defines it as the following (bold my own emphasis):
1. when a girl in a bikini lies down and her hip bones protrude well past their flat stomach causing their bikini bottom to stretch across and gap is formed for a beautiful view of their vaginal front also referred to as hood.
When I see a bikini bridge It makes my whole day better!
2. An incredibly sexy phenomenon wherein bikini bottoms are suspended between the two hip bones, causing a space between the bikini and the lower abdomen. This potential view into the unknown can be further accentuated by a third structural element contributing to the bridge-effect, the mound.
Here's a visual for you:
Let me start by saying that when you are a certain size, there is a natural curvature to a woman's body that can cause her hip bones to pop a little. The thigh gap is finally getting a bad name, however, it has been replaced with the "bikini bridge." Now girls are looking to starve themselves to have their hip bones protrude. The more that their bikinis don't touch their abdominal and go from hip bone to hip it is more desirable.
Why is a skeletal figure considered beautiful? The submitted descriptions of the bikini bridge on Urban Dictionary are very positive. I can imagine that men like it, because they can peek right on down to your who-haw! (That's Texan for vagina.) There are now tumblrs devoted to bikini bridges, and most websites that I visited found this new phenomenon to be sexy and hot.
Believe it or not, the bikini bridge was started as an internet hoax. Riding on the coattails of the thigh gap, a 4chan user decided to start a new body trend and this is what they came up with. They created memes and propaganda to promote this new body "ideal." And guess what? The experiment worked.
All it took for our female youth to distort their view of a beautiful or covet an unobtainable body was to see one promoted online. It shows how great of an influencer the internet is on our younger generations. If we bombarde our girls with these images and tell them it's beautiful (whether we actually believe it ourselves or not), they will strive for that "perfection."
My question is why do the images of curvier, more natural women not catch on? Why does real not become a trend? Why do we rebuke what is natural in favor for unnatural? Our cultures define what is beautiful. Is our culture so thin obsessed that any image of gaps on a woman's body is beautiful? How do we change that? Why is it that something that was intended to be a joke has turned into an actual trend?
What a long bridge we've crossed from our ancestors.
At the vanity, 1600-1650
#bikinibridge
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