In answer to your question, no, you're not fat.

Actually, judging by your picture, your physiology is just baffling.

Mrs knees would certainly go along with a bit of that....she thinks that men who fancy Natalie Imbruglia/Callisat Flockheart/Kate Moss/Anna Friel...are a bit dodgy cos she thinks they just look like pretty boys (no shape)
Then again she may be biased cos she is a bit bigger than them.

Personally I don't really mind its more about how someone engages with you, facial interaction and passion e.t.c.

Men sometimes traditionally classify themselves as 'a legs man' 'a breast man' etc....I think this is not really true. Although walking behind women does present men with an unhindered opportunity to compare and contrast the relative merits of behinds in great detail......Sorry I'm not being sexist....just telling it like it is.

The boys at your school probably do not consider all the most prettily faced girls cos their fantasies may have to incorporate some degree of reality, so they may also fancy someone that they consider they might conceivably have a chance with.

yeah, theres definitely a difference...I reckon, guys tend to think about what is sexually attractive rather than aesthetically attractive, so boobs do figure.

I find that girls also tend to buy the skinny is pretty myth more than guys. I only know a couple of men who really go for thin girls, and frankly they are both in a constant battle with repressing their hidden gayness.

If you're in a school situation or other place where there is a pack of men, bear in mind they may be talking utter crap to fit in and secretly go home and 'excite themselves' over pictures of Dawn French and Ann Widdecombe

Three factors, I reckon:

Primal reproductive instinct (or as Silverfish put it "Hips, Tits, Lips, Power")

Fashion and personal taste (Mr Brainlove's comments)

Mental connectivity (surely everyone's either realised they fancy someone they've known for a while or realised that someone gets on their nerves who they initially thought attractive)

The relative bias changes with time is all. At school, number two's probably prevalent, later on it tends to take more of a back seat.

There.

We all have different tastes. Everyone's attractive to someone. Some people are fortunate enough to be attractive to everyone, while others are Vanessa Feltz.

Don't get hung up about it. The less people focus on your looks, the more chance you've got of developing a functioning personality.

DOH!!!! I mean Tom!!!!
*Damn my feeble head*

Nah, because you're in a fairly enclosed community there's bound to be a bit of a herd mentality in terms of people's tastes. I know plenty of guys who go for skinny girls and it has nothing to do with repressed homosexuality! Ignore the body fascists.

i've noticed that as a child when you're slightly different-looking, boys don't dig you all that much. but then when you're older, it is you looking slightly different, rather than regular and run-of the mill, that makes you a bit more striking and attractive. i dunno, this is what kinda happened with me. not many people know where i'm from. haha, it's cool.

to the girl who got dissed at school (with olive skin, dark eyes), just savour the fact you look different. isn't it much better to stand out than look like everyone else? i do understand how it got you down to begin with, but believe me, it's a plus point, my dear! ok, this hasn't really answered the thread's opener, but, meh.

Crikiey Chiaroscuro....so Mrs Knees is a body facist?....I won't actually pass that on to her.

Actually she thinks she is reacting against a form of body fashism in the first place....i.e. why are almost all models stick like?.....of course this sort of things lead people to react and swing too far the other way......that does kind of lead on to the utter pointlessness of fashion .....advertising,fashion,movies,tv presenters,newspapers are the true body facists i.e. they are not reacting to defend themselves, they just continue to peddle good looking people to the punters, cos they think the punters are such dumb lowly animals. (maybe slightly true but reinforced by their actions)
My biggest gripe is in the terrestial TV's news readers....this is meant to be serious stuff.......have you ever seen a fat newsreader? (especially a large woman?) I especially hate it whne the anchors consist of an older man (who is allowed to look slightly craggy and serious) and a younger (attractive..very made up, but wearing clothes slightly too sensible for her age).
(actually I hate it even more when the channels try to INJECT jocularity and informality into their presenters)

Its awful that such a body as