# Has Britney Spears manly arms? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 10, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568 "2013-11-10T13:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Black\_Bisector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Bisector](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Bisector)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/21 "2013-11-10T19:17:47Z")
Oh my, I never noticed this. I’ll have to do more research… In my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/22 "2013-11-10T19:18:08Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Do you think she looks too muscular in some these pics that I’ve posted? In which pic do you think she looked more muscular? Here’s your historical fetish twin [Hannah Cullwick: Victorian Fetishists of the “Filthy” Working Class Body](http://thereddeeps.blogspot.com/2012/06/hannah-cullwick-victorian-fetishes-of.html) > [@](#): > > Munby, unlike most of his class, did not want the signifiers of class to be made invisible (not that he was in any way interested in equality); in fact, he relished and fetishised these markers of class. Part of the pleasure he found in Cullwick, and subsequently passed on to her, was not be be ashamed of her filthy work and of getting dirty, but to be proud of it, to enjoy and display it. Cullwick’s strong body, grimy after fourteen hours of work, was filthy; this excited Munby, and when visiting her he would ask if Cullwick would stay “in her dirt” for him. His photographs reveal he was particularly interested in her hands and arms as these parts gave the most visible evidence of doing “a hard day’s work”, so in many of Munby’s pictures, hands and arms are a central focus. In the second and third pictures here, dressed as a chimney sweep covered in soot, Cullwick’s strong, large, shapely arms are displayed to full effect. In the picture left, Cullwick is actually lifting her sleeve to exhibit her muscles: as Carol Mavor remarks, “she wore her thirteen-and-one-half-inch biceps as proudly as she wore her dirt”. ---
**Author:** ![Danny92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Danny92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danny92)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/23 "2013-11-10T19:25:48Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Here’s your historical fetish twin > > [Hannah Cullwick: Victorian Fetishists of the “Filthy” Working Class Body](http://thereddeeps.blogspot.com/2012/06/hannah-cullwick-victorian-fetishes-of.html) LOL what a ugly woman. She is not even muscular. Britney’s muscles are way bigger than her 😃 ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/24 "2013-11-10T19:30:47Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > I just realized her arms looks very muscular in some pics I wouldn’t say manly; her guns aren’t much bigger than[Kaley Cuoco’s](http://www.thewallpapers.org/photo/72740/Kaley-Cuoco-Rock-The-Vote-National-Bus-Tour-Concert-in-Hollywood-031.jpg) Spears has always, on her game, had the physique of a fitness model - obvious muscle tone, but not ripped to the point of looking vascular. She is, at her core, a big ol’ country girl, and she’ll never be a waif. Her options are fit/toned and big/meaty, and we’ve seen both. ---
**Author:** ![Danny92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Danny92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danny92)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/25 "2013-11-10T19:37:27Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > I wouldn’t say manly; her guns aren’t much bigger than[Kaley Cuoco’s](http://www.thewallpapers.org/photo/72740/Kaley-Cuoco-Rock-The-Vote-National-Bus-Tour-Concert-in-Hollywood-031.jpg) > > Spears has always, on her game, had the physique of a fitness model - obvious muscle tone, but not ripped to the point of looking vascular. She is, at her core, a big ol’ country girl, and she’ll never be a waif. Her options are fit/toned and big/meaty, and we’ve seen both. Cuoco’s arms are bigg too but less muscled than Britney’s I think. Did Britney even looked physically stronger than nowadays in her prime? ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/26 "2013-11-10T20:13:17Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Has Britney Spears manly arms? No, the men you’re thinking of have womanly arms. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/27 "2013-11-10T22:01:17Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > No matter what forum, toned female arms are not manly looking. This. Even assuming these aren’t photoshopped, at most she looks like she exercises some. Outside of being muscular, hairy, veiny, and having big hands I’m not sure just what a woman’s arms being “manly” would be anyway. And she certainly doesn’t have that. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/28 "2013-11-10T22:05:42Z")
You can tell she’s been doing her shrugs in that last pic! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/29 "2013-11-10T22:09:05Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > IMO, ‘too muscular for a woaman’ it’s when she looks as strong as average male than don’t works out or areN’T into sports. OK, I agree with **Ambivilad** , you’ve set the bar ridiculously low. Her arms look great in those photos. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/30 "2013-11-10T22:20:24Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > You can tell she’s been doing her shrugs in that last pic! Some guys are breast men, some guys notice legs. **Ambi** notices the traps! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/31 "2013-11-10T23:01:04Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Cuoco’s arms are bigg too but less muscled than Britney’s I think. > > Did Britney even looked physically stronger than nowadays in her prime? [Dude…](http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/278/696/6b5.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/32 "2013-11-10T23:46:26Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Moved from General Questions to IMHO. > > **samclem** , Moderator Shouldn’t it be Cafe, since she is (ostensibly) a singer? ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/33 "2013-11-11T00:31:40Z")
I have worked very hard to put some good muscle on my delicate little frame and if anyone tries to tell me that makes me manly I will kick their bloody arse from here to breakfast. Not all women are built princessy, some of us like being strong, it does not make us lesser women or more manly, it makes us strong women. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/34 "2013-11-11T00:35:13Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Do you think she looks too muscular in some these pics that I’ve posted? In which pic do you think she looked more muscular? The one where she’s holding a whole pie in a ceramic dish with one hand. Or the one where she’s holding a trophy with one hand. See a pattern here? ---
**Author:** ![Danny92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Danny92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danny92)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/35 "2013-11-11T00:45:43Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > OK, I agree with **Ambivilad** , you’ve set the bar ridiculously low. Her arms look great in those photos. Is not a set bar. The average men than don’t works out is way stronger tha average female than lifts some weight. ---
**Author:** ![Danny92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Danny92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danny92)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/36 "2013-11-11T00:58:32Z")
It’s not a low bar ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/37 "2013-11-11T01:53:50Z")
The question of course is whether she secretly hiding a pregnancy. Is that a bump I see, or a shadow!? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/38 "2013-11-11T02:13:28Z")
As the individual in question sang herself: _I’m Miss “Extra, extra, this just in” (You wanna piece of me?) I’m Miss “She’s too thick, oh, now she’s too thin” (You wanna piece of me?)_ Put me in for not seeing anything unbecomingly manly about Miss Spears’ arms. She obviously does strength exercises and so do many women. A lady who looked like that would be welcome to share in a friendly grapple at the mat any day 😉 > [@epbrown01](#): > > She is, at her core, a big ol’ country girl, and she’ll never be a waif. Her options are fit/toned and big/meaty, and we’ve seen both. Exactly. Given the choice, an athletic look is a good and healthy and yes, attractive choice. Sure when we met her she looked like a 17-year-old schoolgirl tease … because she _WAS_ a 17-year-old. There’s nothing that can bring _that_ back and she’s better off not trying. The OP, for his viewing pleasure, may want to check out Madonna, who depending on what point in her training schedule she’s at, can get [quite](http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/images/2007/madonna_gets_in_shape_e.jpg) [ripped](http://thebumplife.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/madonna_muscular-arms1.jpg). Or how about [Shakira’s abs](http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01227/Shakira3__rx_380_1227457a.jpg)… …um… I seem to have lost my train of thought just now, I’ll be running along… ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/39 "2013-11-11T02:17:54Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Is not a set bar. The average men than don’t works out is way stronger tha average female than lifts some weight. Who cares? Either you like a fit woman or you don’t. The fact that lots of women can achieve a well muscled physique if they work out means that it simply a matter of society, not biology. You don’t like it, we get it. But why should women care? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/40 "2013-11-11T02:19:27Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > The question of course is whether she secretly hiding a pregnancy. Is that a bump I see, or a shadow!? I was thinking the same thing. He’s pretty much the male version of Claire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568.md?page=3)