Girls who lift aren't sexy!

Here she is trying (and succedding!) to look hot.

Is this look 'soft' enough for the nay-sayers?

Who is this anyhow?

Christmas Abbott. Same girl in the OP.

I'm in love with her sheer strength!! I'm not aiming to get that ripped, but she looks gooooooood!!

ok there is only so far a girl can go with lifting before she starts to look like she has a mans body......... girls that lift are sexy just not when they get too much muscle and no fat to cover it, i like a bit of fat i dont mind being skinny fat just not fat like i am now and so i look toned but not too toned, i dont disagree with women wanting muscle but my opinion is i dot think it looks good. women are meant to have boobs not a man like chest like you see in pics posted.. sorry if i have offended anyone but this again is my opinion x

I've been lifting for 4 years. I have a rack, I am curvy and I am as girly girl as you can get. And I outlift my cousin who's twice my size and 10 years younger. So yeah, no.

Why does EVERYTHING have to come down to whether a woman is "sexy" or not? -_- Oh right, patriarchy.

^^^^ THIS!!!

exactly!! Maybe her goals are not related to whether men find her sexy or not, but whether she can lift enough to do the work that she wants to do. (FTR I think she looks great). There is way more to life and people than sexual attraction.

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(aimed generally, not at the person who posted the above)

re body shaming - a preference is one thing, coming to a thread like this (as some have done) and stating that xyz is not what you prefer is another, and being able to state it without putting others down is a third thing. I have a preference for men to have body hair. Would I go into a thread someone made about a man whose physique they admire and say "I don't think he's sexy because he doesn't have any body hair" or worse, "he looks like a woman because he doesn't have any body hair"? (which isn't my opinion BTW, but I have seen that opinion expressed on this forum and consider it body shaming. A man without body hair is still a man and no more or less manly than any other.).............. having an opinion for one particular body type or characteristic does not give you the right to insult those who have a different type of body (don't even get me started on "real women have curves" and the like.... you can celebrate curvy women without putting down non-curvy women....)

re masculine and feminine - it wasn't until I studied anthropology at university that I realised that so much of what I'd grown up thinking were universal truths, were nothing but cultural norms with no biological reality. A lot of people in the west may consider long hair, make-up, dresses, lack of visible muscles, not displaying physical strength, being softly spoken and so on, to be synonymous with "feminine" - yet this is just culture, not biology. You see the woman in my avatar? Most modern western people would probably say she's not very feminine. However, she would have had her own set of cultural norms which may have included a definition of "feminine" or "female-like" (she's a reconstruction of an actual individual who lived tens of thousands of years ago) and it's highly unlikely that her definition of feminine would have matched the modern western cultural definition. It's more likely that "feminine" by her standards included being strong enough to defend her kids from attack. Some palaeoanthropologists believe that neanderthal women hunted alongside the men, if that's the case then "feminine" may have included the ability to take down a large animal, close range, with a spear. Whatever her cultural definition of feminine was, it was no more or less valid than anyone else's, and there are a myriad different cultures in the world today, never mind the number of cultures that have ever existed, each with their own norms.

Cultural norms are problematic when they constrain people to be a particular way that isn't right for them, or when they lead to some people berating others because they don't fit those norms. Unfortunately most cultures are guilty of this to a lesser or greater extent, and people really need to learn just how much their opinions are the product of their culture, and not universal truths. When you understand that, it's easy to break from from cultural norms that constrain you, and stop constraining others by them, and stop berating people who don't fit them. Going back to muscular women - there is nothing unfeminine about muscular women. If muscle wasn't feminine, women wouldn't have muscles.

very hott! love it, inspiring!!

ok there is only so far a girl can go with lifting before she starts to look like she has a mans body girl that lift are sexy just not when they get too much muscle and no fat to cover it, i like a bit of fat i dont mind being skinny fat just not fat like i am now and so i look tined but not too toned, i dont disagree with women wanting muscle but my opinion is i dot think it looks good. women are meant to have boobs not a man like chest like you see in pics posted.. sorry if i have offended anyone but this again is my opinion x

A man's body? Not only is that incredibly insulting to any woman who lifts heavy and aspires to look like her, but just because *you* think a woman should be soft and squishy does not mean that a ripped, amazing woman like her has a "man's" body. She is a woman, she is feminine, and there's nothing about her that is manly.

Opinions are opinions. Just that. When someone asks a wide variety of people a question you're going to get all kinds of them. She is not trying to offend anyone, she is just stating her opinion of which she is entitled. I think hard bodies are sexy and that girl looks fantastic (not like a man at all) but I take no offense to what she has said as she was asked what she personally thought! Not sure why people get so worked up about others answers.

Then you don't mind me saying you remind me of a whale?

No need to get insulted or worked up about my answer.

Lol. Well I didnt ask your opinion so that's different.. But if you think I look like a whale then so be it! I certainly know I dont look like one and that's all that matters.

ok there is only so far a girl can go with lifting before she starts to look like she has a mans body girl that lift are sexy just not when they get too much muscle and no fat to cover it, i like a bit of fat i dont mind being skinny fat just not fat like i am now and so i look tined but not too toned, i dont disagree with women wanting muscle but my opinion is i dot think it looks good. women are meant to have boobs not a man like chest like you see in pics posted.. sorry if i have offended anyone but this again is my opinion x

A man's body? Not only is that incredibly insulting to any woman who lifts heavy and aspires to look like her, but just because *you* think a woman should be soft and squishy does not mean that a ripped, amazing woman like her has a "man's" body. She is a woman, she is feminine, and there's nothing about her that is manly.

Opinions are opinions. Just that. When someone asks a wide variety of people a question you're going to get all kinds of them. She is not trying to offend anyone, she is just stating her opinion of which she is entitled. I think hard bodies are sexy and that girl looks fantastic (not like a man at all) but I take no offense to what she has said as she was asked what she personally thought! Not sure why people get so worked up about others answers.

Then you don't mind me saying you remind me of a whale?

No need to get insulted or worked up about my answer.

Should point out, you don't but that is the logic you are using.

Not really.. If I asked you for your opinion and thats what you had to say then for sure... But when you create a post and ask for people's opinions on something other's shouldn't get worked up about their answers. She wasn't attacking a specific individual. She just stated that she wasn't a fan of that body type and that she wasn't trying to offend anyone :P

ok there is only so far a girl can go with lifting before she starts to look like she has a mans body......... girls that lift are sexy just not when they get too much muscle and no fat to cover it, i like a bit of fat i dont mind being skinny fat just not fat like i am now and so i look toned but not too toned, i dont disagree with women wanting muscle but my opinion is i dot think it looks good. women are meant to have boobs not a man like chest like you see in pics posted.. sorry if i have offended anyone but this again is my opinion x

I barely have boobs, I have what I call lady pecs....this is how I am build. I gave birth to 6 kids, so I guess I am a woman. Lifting made me more sexy and I finally love my body instead of the self loating i lived with for 30+ years.

Dude!! Seriously!! YOu have to warn me of these things. I didn't prepare for such hotness and didn't bring my backup underwear.

did you dukie in your undies???

HAHAHHA!!! That is not what I do when I am in the presence of such HOTNESS! *checks underwear* Yes that is not what I do!