"If men were not attracted to athletic, in shape, tone, thin woman do you think they would still try SO hard to"

That's a very good question. But you're gonna need some open-minded people to answer it! What you're asking is: is the way women choose to look based solely on what the majority of men find attractive? I think that's a definite yes but you're gonna get alot of people denying it - mainly women because they're not gonna take kindly to realising that such a large part of their life is dictated by what a man thinks.