Nina Paley on Nostr: The drawing didn't just make her skinnier. It changed the waist-to-hip ratio. ...

The drawing didn't just make her skinnier. It changed the waist-to-hip ratio. Drawings are more "cartoony" the more they exaggerate certain traits. Women have hourglass figures compared to men, who have V-shapes (big shoulders tapering straight down to narrow hips). This is the nature of (young, fertile) women and men, and exaggerating these traits makes a cartoon more recognizable as essence-of-woman and essence-of-man. It's not all nefarious impossible beauty standards. It's just cartooning, shorthand exaggerating proportions.