Female body types

LovingLisa2012 · May 2012

i replied yesterday but think i said fat ..

i meant the chubby 1 . i dont feel like digging for my post to edit it ..

i would love look like the chubby 1 .. of course i am coming from high 312 .. so chubby would be awesome ..anything beyond that ( other than boyish and ann.) would be nice too

piebird79 · May 2012

PLUS, a lot of these are talking about weight, not body type. Morbidly obese is not a body type. Neither is chubby. Neither is muscular. You have to alter your appearance to gain these body shapes, they are not a natural body type. The "normal" one is not "normal" - it may be a "normal" bf% and weight bit if you title it body types, you're talking pear, apple, hourglass etc.

And the woman labeled "normal" is a banana or whatever, which I'm pretty sure is the least common shape - pear shaped is most common.

And yeah, we can't decide which is our goal, as most of us do not have the same build as these women, and bf%/weight gain/loss will do nothing to change that.

A better title would have been "female weights and body fat %" and asked what people are aiming for in that respect.
I can't aim to be an hourglass shape anymore than I can aim to have black skin.

shamelessly quoting my own post, because I just feel the need to say it again :L

lol! It deserves to be said again though!

stepherzzzzz · May 2012

Normal I guess. I don't have the hips to be curvy lol

DMZ_1 · May 2012

I like athletic. Normal was good too.

In the OP, curvy is different than how curvy is used in at least one segment of life. On an online dating site, curvy means fat.

monipie · May 2012

i want to be curvy/muscular. right now i think i am curvy/fit.

Karleyyy · May 2012

Found this on Facebook

Personally I've always preferred "Athletic".

What's your goal?

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I am curvy. I like it!

beckybo91 · May 2012

Normal seems pretty great

fitplease · May 2012

Somewhere between curvy and athletic.

That ^^

ninerbuff · May 2012

I hate these kinda threads, or any threads about curves, thigh gaps, muscular women...
they always always ALWAYS lead to body shaming, and it drives me nuts.

Then why participate?

because someone needs to make a stand against this misogynistic bull****?

Lol, where do you get the idea that I hate women?

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ninerbuff · May 2012

It all makes sense now lol

I like "fit" but maybe with a little more definition.

It does make more sense. Again the "copy" I had was from FB posted by a female friend of mine on her FB. I didn't alter it in any way.

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sexforjaffacakes · May 2012

I hate these kinda threads, or any threads about curves, thigh gaps, muscular women...
they always always ALWAYS lead to body shaming, and it drives me nuts.

Then why participate?

because someone needs to make a stand against this misogynistic bull****?

Lol, where do you get the idea that I hate women?

I didn't say you hate women, but this post and many of the comments on it reek of misogyny.

First the label that put the fit girl as "normal", to suggest everything else is abnormal (you didn't make it but you did re-post it)
You're essentially asking people to judge what is nicest
And as someone who is clearly well educated in fitness and who has made plenty good posts before, you know as well as I do that women can't "Aim" to be curvy or straight up and down.
You also have enough experience to know that threads like this descend into body fascism, insults (real women have curves, "normal" looks like a boy etc) and general all round unpleasantness.

So, I think it was a stupid and misogynistic thing to post, even if it's meant to be some kind of joke.

big_boobs · May 2012

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Plus what cheerleader and blonde girl like her have you ever seen who is not a complete *****. It is obvious that the only reason she is on this site is to sell her body. Now that is not ok with me. If you want a friend like her just go to the grocery store and by yourself a Barbie doll, its the same thing!!

Also I want to warn you about some of her other friends too. One of them personally told me in a pm that her family are thieves. Another one called me a ***** and two of them were in pornons with her. Some o fthe most insulting comments were from cannonsky, delco, glamour60xtreme, becca_daniel, grapenutsf to name a few! All because I tried to give a little constructive criticism

Also I urge you guys to please help me get her banned. Thank you and I hope you have a pleasant evening!!

femmi1120 · May 2012

I'd love to have the curvy body but since no amount of chest presses will increase my cup size, I'm aiming more for normal

Laoch_Cailin · May 2012

I'm curvy and very happy to be there :-)

JustJennie1 · May 2012

I would say a cross between athletic and muscular.

ninerbuff · May 2012

I didn't say you hate women, but this post and many of the comments on it reek of misogyny.

Insinuating that I am misogynistic accuses me of hatred of women.

First the label that put the fit girl as "normal", to suggest everything else is abnormal (you didn't make it but you did re-post it)

No, the label of normal is that of average. There are no two women who are exactly alike (even twins have differences) and the categories just show all the different types of bodies females either have or have acquired through habit.

You're essentially asking people to judge what is nicest

No the post was made so that some may see what goal they may want to achieve based on the current body they have now. Unfortunately I'm not a computer whiz (as you can tell that I can't even resize a photo right) and would have deleted the "obese and fat" pics if I knew how.

And as someone who is clearly well educated in fitness and who has made plenty good posts before, you know as well as I do that women can't "Aim" to be curvy or straight up and down.

Of course I know that. But an overweight person who knows what type of body they have can aspire to achieve the look that's portrayed in the photos that fits their type accordingly. Nothing wrong to seeing an "after" possibility of what they make look like.

You also have enough experience to know that threads like this descend into body fascism, insults (real women have curves, "normal" looks like a boy etc) and general all round unpleasantness.

Insults are thrown by those who want to throw them. Generally people here on the forum are quite civil so I think you may be blowing this out of proportion.

So, I think it was a stupid and misogynistic thing to post, even if it's meant to be some kind of joke.

It's wasn't a joke. There are actually people here (with or without the photos) trying to achieve a body goal. Some want muscularity. Some want the athletic look. Some want the "toned" look.
You take offense to the thread. I get it. But no need to label me as a misogynist when it's you point of view and not true.

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Leylaos · May 2012

before pregnacy i was curvy now im chubby n i want my hour glass figure back thats my goal

thatsnumberwang · May 2012

Yikes, I actually thought this thread was a joke, a kind of tongue-in-cheek social commentary on the "post your perfect body" threads. To suggest that *that* body represents "normal" is so over-the-top ridiculous that I thought it HAD to be a joke. Same goes for the suggestion that women are capable of determining the shape of their bodies to the extent that they can "aim for" one of these body types. Apparently I was mistaken. Bummer, I actually used to have a lot of respect for the OP.