After receiving the positive or negative feedback about their financial status, the guys were then asked to describe their dream woman. Men who felt broke tended to go for heavier girls. “It could be that when men are hungry they seek out signals of lushness or opulence and heaviness in the female might be such a signal,” Dr. Nelson theorized. In an economic downturn, bigger women make men feel like they’ve hit the jackpot!
In the last American recession, during George H. W. Bush’s presidency, a chart topping, Grammy Award winning hit marked the ultimate woman of the times. “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-a-Lot explained that men like big butts and they cannot lie. The video featured mounds of video hoes in spandex showing just how “thick and juicy” they were.
