How Did Two Cave Women Keep Those Nineteen Fifties' Figures???????????????

                                          Having written about obesity recently, dolls, I turned my thoughts to the reverse--stick figures.  Don't forget, before the war started, Scarlett O' Hara, according to Margaret Mitchell, who knew her best, had the smallest waist in three counties, at sixteen inches.

                                            Even more slender than that were Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble, voiced famously by Jean Vander Pyl  (Wilma), and June Foray and Bea Benaderet (Betty).

                                            Slenderness was discarded, in 1994, when America's Prime Time Fatty, and Ugly No Talent, Rosie O' Donnell, tried to play Betty!  Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                             Wilma and Betty, to me, will always be their slender selves.  Even though they very likely came from the pens of straight male animators, envisioning perfect looking wives with perfect figures.  Hey, prehistoric meat could not have been low caloried, and how could they deign to eat dinosaur meat, when they had a baby dinosaur, Dino, for a pet?  Does that mean  Dino would eventually end up on the chopping block?  That does not make sense.  The Flintstones and Rubbles were not farmers, but blue collar, Stone Age suburbanites.

                                              But Fifties sexism kept those women in gorgeous figures, I am telling you.

                                               Would that we could all still look like that, now, hmmmmmmm?