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What would make women's bodybuilding popular?

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

Yeah Zaq1 is on the right track the last 5 years there has been a resurgence of female empowerment in media and with that comes a greater acceptance and admiration for women in male centered stereotypes like bodybuilding. So rather than thinking of womens bodybuilding as needing to be more feminized rather there might be more of a shift into accepting the beauty these more muscular women bring to the scene. Likely it's going to be a bit of both, as well as a reactionary branch of people who try to undo it. But I feel like we are on a "three steps forward two steps back" trend with muscular women in mainstream culture

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

As people have been saying, it would be when we have a woman bodybuilder in movies who is both absolutely gorgeous and massively muscular, not like a fitness/figure athlete but well over 200 pounds, close to an Amazonka level.

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

As people have been saying, it would be when we have a woman bodybuilder in movies who is both absolutely gorgeous and massively muscular, not like a fitness/figure athlete but well over 200 pounds, close to an Amazonka level.

Hate to say it....you can't have both huge and gorgeous in the long term with the drug use. Plain and simple.

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

There's cris goy who's 210 and gorgeous. And Andrea Shaw has 18" arms and is quite pretty. It's not impossible but yes a difficult proposition.

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

Long term is the key

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

Let's see how the Disney+ she hulk will be. She Hulk is bound to have muscles. It's a marvel hero with the power of Disney behind it. It should reach a massive audience. If the reaction is positive then it could be a big step forward for female muscle

Shulkie's likely to be full or mostly CG like her cousin, but hopefully she's based on her proper version and not the BS Jason Aaron is obsessed with in Avengers. Hopefully it's a good series- well, better than the stuff Disney's put out so far.

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

Shulkie's likely to be full or mostly CG like her cousin, but hopefully she's based on her proper version and not the BS Jason Aaron is obsessed with in Avengers. Hopefully it's a good series- well, better than the stuff Disney's put out so far.

I'm almost certain that She Hulk will be at most, as big as a Crossfit athlete.

cgsweat
Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

I think a lot of us are seeing this through our own lens and forgetting to look through the lens of the 'normies' (for lack of a better word, the people who aren't into female muscle). Most of them literally don't care about female muscle, they don't seek it and they have no passion or interest in it. And so the only way that changes on a large scale is if, as has been suggested before, someone popularized the look. In this day and age, I think it would have to be done through someone who is already famous and has a huge following.

For example, say Gal Gadot does another Wonder Woman movie. And she trains harder than she did for the other movies she's done, to the point where she builds lean muscle and has visible muscularity throughout her body. Nothing huge, just a small step forward to gently pull the normies in. There should probably be at least one short scene where she gets to show off her body. And of course she'd be a natural badass like in her other movies.

I think it could inspire more women to workout and more men to be receptive of their wives or g/f's having a muscular body. Not everyone of course, but it could produce a nice surge in popularity. Especially if it became a trend, and there were more actresses/social media 'influencers' who followed suit.

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

I think a lot of us are seeing this through our own lens and forgetting to look through the lens of the 'normies' (for lack of a better word, the people who aren't into female muscle). Most of them literally don't care about female muscle, they don't seek it and they have no passion or interest in it. And so the only way that changes on a large scale is if, as has been suggested before, someone popularized the look. In this day and age, I think it would have to be done through someone who is already famous and has a huge following.

For example, say Gal Gadot does another Wonder Woman movie. And she trains harder than she did for the other movies she's done, to the point where she builds lean muscle and has visible muscularity throughout her body. Nothing huge, just a small step forward to gently pull the normies in. There should probably be at least one short scene where she gets to show off her body. And of course she'd be a natural badass like in her other movies.

I think it could inspire more women to workout and more men to be receptive of their wives or g/f's having a muscular body. Not everyone of course, but it could produce a nice surge in popularity. Especially if it became a trend, and there were more actresses/social media 'influencers' who followed suit.

I could see this working. She already has a nice, lean physique. Putting a generous amount of muscle on it would look good on her. A Rachel McLish type of body.

Jul 07, 2021 - permalink
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Jul 07, 2021 - edited Jul 07, 2021 - permalink

For example, say Gal Gadot does another Wonder Woman movie. And she trains harder than she did for the other movies she's done, to the point where she builds lean muscle and has visible muscularity throughout her body. Nothing huge, just a small step forward to gently pull the normies in. There should probably be at least one short scene where she gets to show off her body. And of course she'd be a natural badass like in her other movies.

This is going backwards imo. Using Gal Gadot Wonderwoman look is like starting from square one and I believe we're beyond that level of normies acceptability. Jessica Biel circa 2004 is a better benchmark. I could pass by Gal Gadot and not even notice she hits the gym. I don't remember hearing any negative remarks from normies about Jessica Biel back then and she was the thickest muscled lead actress I've seen in a major film since peak Angela Bassett.

qaz
Jul 08, 2021 - permalink

Please take a breath, stop using the word normies, and practice being more accepting of the taste of others. It'll do wonders I promise.

Jul 08, 2021 - edited Jul 08, 2021 - permalink

Please take a breath, stop using the word normies, and practice being more accepting of the taste of others. It'll do wonders I promise.

You're taking it way more seriously than I'm sure anyone else in this thread is. I don't mean it as a derogatory term. It's just a simple word for a group of people who have the standard taste in women that would be considered the norm. Whereas there are those of us with shall we say have a more diversified taste that is very much not so considered the norm.

qaz
Jul 08, 2021 - permalink

@tag1981 Ok I'm very happy to hear that, in the past I had only seen that term be used by people with a... let's say unhealthy relationship with reality

Jul 08, 2021 - permalink

Comedy you have a women bodybuilders that have comedic talent have them do stand up and make jokes and win people over on humor

Jul 09, 2021 - permalink

I'm almost certain that She Hulk will be at most, as big as a Crossfit athlete.

Unfortunately, I don't expect She-Hulk to look muscular. I assume they will go for a more athletic look. Which is more appropriate for Wonder Woman and Supergirl. She-Hulk is supposed to look muscular.

Jul 10, 2021 - permalink

appreciate women with masculine traits

Like appreciating beef that tastes like fish, or a game of baseball with cricket rules?

it's always the "eeew, muscles!" crowd that wins.

That's called biology. And note that the "eeew" comes from both men and women, if not even moreso from the latter.

when we have a woman bodybuilder in movies who is both absolutely gorgeous and massively muscular

One thing invalidates the other.

She-Hulk is supposed to look muscular.

She really isn't, anymore than Superman is supposed to be blue or Spider-Man's supposed to have six arms. At least not in the way you're probably thinking of "muscular".

Jul 11, 2021 - permalink

A naturally pretty woman like Dani Reardon or Lindsay Cope in their prime being an object of attraction (in a non-stereotypical FBB way) by a major actor in a movie or two would go a very long way.

Jul 11, 2021 - permalink

A naturally pretty woman like Dani Reardon or Lindsay Cope in their prime being an object of attraction (in a non-stereotypical FBB way) by a major actor in a movie or two would go a very long way.

Agree.

Jul 11, 2021 - permalink

A naturally pretty woman like Dani Reardon or Lindsay Cope in their prime being an object of attraction (in a non-stereotypical FBB way) by a major actor in a movie or two would go a very long way.

Agreed. But I think even now the trend is to cast a muscular woman as a minor character or a negative character. I think the producers are too old-fashioned to think of musclegirls as anything other than 'freaks'.

Jul 11, 2021 - permalink

If you got a female bodybuilder in a action role with very little talking like Arnie did with Terminator of course had James Cameron in the Directors chair,was he a big name back then!

Jul 11, 2021 - permalink

Female bodybuilding will never be mainstream, but I love the growth of truly muscular fitness influencers, I hope we see more women picking up weights instead of getting BBLs.

Jul 11, 2021 - permalink

Fbbing will never be popular. It would be possible to get rid of the freak show stigma. Firstly, you'd need some serious drug testing, secondly a lower limit how little fat they are allowed to have. The sickly looking faces during competition are the result of unhealthy fat levels and dehydration.

Jul 12, 2021 - permalink

There are no subjective mainstream sports.

Jul 12, 2021 - permalink

As others have said previously, this is a fetish, enjoy it for what it is, it would be bad for everyone if for some strange reason half the female population decided to start using PEDs.

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