I'm all for many ideas put forward by the feminist movement, but the notion that men preferring skinny chicks is some product of mass brainwashing by Western culture is just laughably idiotic.

People are meant to be skinny rather than fat, being skinny is healthier than being fat by a pretty wide margin. People are meant to be active and not sedentary and having an abundance of fatty foods has never been the norm in any human civilization until the past few decades or so.

Not all "attractiveness" is subjective; people are programmed to respond favorably to facial symmetry and other genetic markers that indicate health, fertility, strong genes; this has even been proven with babies. Facial symmetry correlates strongly to feminine proportions -- i.e. "hourglass" shape. in short, men like skinny women with big boobs.