The Chinese want to have a waist A4

To demonstrate its thinness, young Chinese look tipito in social networks hips hiding behind a sheet of 21 centimeters wide

In China, where women flaunt their extreme thinness , they have taken a further step in the evolution of the wasp waist as a model of feminine beauty. Under what makes the compass of social networks, the latest trend is to have an A4 waist . It is not any aerodynamic one of the best selling cars of Audi, but measures the most popular pages on our printers, which are 21 centimeters wide allusion. So the photos show that during the past few weeks have flooded Weibo , China 's Twitter censored copy. They young attractive looking little guy with an A4 sheet, used to cover their narrow waists and thus prove his fine figure appear.

With the label ( "hashtag") # paperA4 , this unique challenge has spread like wildfire over the Internet in China, where women take pride in having hips that can be hidden behind a narrow sheet of paper . For some, one more example of his not only physical, but mental anorexia, and for others a new example of the cult of the slim body that both worries doctors and nutritionists.

How could it be otherwise, the singular occurrence also triggered the imagination of jokers and unleashed all kinds of jokes with the already usual "memes" . The palm takes a certain Joe Wong , who brags of having an A4 face behind cover her face with a sheet . Giving a twist to the concept, others are released from their complex turning the paper to hide your tummy after almost 30 centimeters long. At the end of the day , it is having an A4 waist and we know that the order of the factors does not alter the product.

Joking aside, it is not the first time that this radicalization of slenderness spread to Chinese netizens. Last summer, many women showed the narrowness of their waists running her arm behind her back to get to touch the navel hand. The challenge, called "reaches the navel from behind to show your good figure" marked trend and was mentioned as 130 million times by users of Weibo, generating more than 100,000 discussion forums. All a "trending topic" that was not just a matter of body flexibility, but rather a rickets that alarmed experts.

As reported by some feminist groups, these images are fun in the cascade of photos taken from the Internet every day overflows our mobile phones but can also depress many people by imposing impossible to meet aesthetic criteria. The influence can be harmful in both ends , either by a slenderness to Twiggy or roundness to Kim Kardashian . In the progressive thinning of the bodies and minds that bring social networks, the beauty ideal measures pass the classic 90-60-90 lifelong waist to the A4 want to have Chinese . They know that true beauty is on the inside.