# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/41 "2013-11-11T02:47:34Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Who cares? Either you like a fit woman or you don’t. Don’t ever let him see an ESPN Magazine Body Issue. He may get the vapors. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/42 "2013-11-11T02:56:26Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > 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). A few weeks ago I watched Truth Or Dare. Even 20+ years ago Madonna had some [pretty](http://scottishbeautyblog.co.uk/sites/scottishbeautyblog.co.uk/files/images/blog/madonna-iconic-look-blonde-ambition.jpg) [big](http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1233108507/209/582209.jpg) [guns](http://blog.moveyourframe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/madonna-blond-ambition-tour.jpg). Not like they are now, but she was clearly working out even back then. It might just be part of having a dance heavy tour. Or rather, having a dance heavy show AND liking to exercise. They get plenty of cardio on during the show so they do some lifting on their days off. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/43 "2013-11-11T03:18:18Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Don’t ever let him see an ESPN Magazine Body Issue. He may get the vapors. Yeah, he’ll be asking why so many NFL players have women’s hair. ---
**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 11, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/44 "2013-11-11T03:21:23Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > A few weeks ago I watched Truth Or Dare. Even 20+ years ago Madonna had some [pretty](http://scottishbeautyblog.co.uk/sites/scottishbeautyblog.co.uk/files/images/blog/madonna-iconic-look-blonde-ambition.jpg) [big](http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1233108507/209/582209.jpg) [guns](http://blog.moveyourframe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/madonna-blond-ambition-tour.jpg). Not like they are now, but she was clearly working out even back then. It might just be part of having a dance heavy tour. Or rather, having a dance heavy show AND liking to exercise. They get plenty of cardio on during the show so they do some lifting on their days off. Damn, those are impressive! So are her arms. d&r ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/45 "2013-11-11T03:30:28Z")
I was all ready to be like, no, of course not :rolleyes:. Her arms look about as manly as that Downton Abby actress looks pregnant. But then I looked at the pics. Yeah, they do look manly. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/46 "2013-11-11T09:09:34Z")
What do you have to say about Norwegian skiers [Therese Johaug and Marit Bjørgen](http://blog.svd.se/maratonbloggen/files/2013/01/bjorgen_johaug.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/47 "2013-11-11T09:46:17Z")
Come on guys, people can have as big arms as they want, men or women. It’s a constitutional right, you know? ---
**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, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/48 "2013-11-11T12:40:47Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > Come on guys, people can have as big arms as they want, men or women. It’s a constitutional right, you know? Women hardly get big arms naturally only liftign weights ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/49 "2013-11-11T12:40:49Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Cuoco’s arms are bigg too but less muscled than Britney’s I think. Uh, look at that picture again. If you think Cuoco’s arms are “bigg,” you are operating on a different set of standards than the rest of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/50 "2013-11-11T12:58:15Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Women hardly get big arms naturally only liftign weights Natural or not, you can’t deny them their right. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/51 "2013-11-11T13:23:29Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Women hardly get big arms naturally only liftign weights So…In context of this thread are you suggesting that Britney is on dat dere roid time? ---
**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, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/52 "2013-11-11T13:35:50Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Women hardly get big arms naturally only liftign weights You are spectacularly wrong, but it’s irrelevant to the question at hand. You don’t like muscular women; that’s fine. But to call them manly is just silly. ---
**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, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/53 "2013-11-11T13:37:46Z")
> [@Meatros](#): > > So…In context of this thread are you suggesting that Britney is on dat dere roid time? I think it’s a possibility. I know women than lifts really heavy weights and can’t get arms like Britney. And I know women on steroids and some them aren’t too muscular. Spears’arms looks bloated [http://pics.britney.com.br/albums/pics/10017/BBR-Paris-041011\_281229.jpg](http://pics.britney.com.br/albums/pics/10017/BBR-Paris-041011_281229.jpg) [http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/RAAAAL6N\_EG4TSviVRH2jlCw82vbZy1FNrCSXr1p9CWYcNRopvJMuLZXZCIpZl-qI0UEvAtX1NnC1ucCFVSRXF0N4\_PcWsA7iulBgKEO13hXLdN0AJtU9VAeHg2\_x8YpZ7pJn9dVRwMqvs-A2g.jpg](http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/RAAAAL6N_EG4TSviVRH2jlCw82vbZy1FNrCSXr1p9CWYcNRopvJMuLZXZCIpZl-qI0UEvAtX1NnC1ucCFVSRXF0N4_PcWsA7iulBgKEO13hXLdN0AJtU9VAeHg2_x8YpZ7pJn9dVRwMqvs-A2g.jpg) [http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/RAAAAL6N\_EG4TSviVRH2jlCw82v43JM\_amlsJgbn8593T\_llW8nDcmuIWPU1SVjXlnfcOO97qlCOPGFRBJflfbid1C20McQTpotTm0VBlY71iiACAJtU9VCrVyIvSwlgnQDkq5vVhLK33m16EA.jpg](http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/RAAAAL6N_EG4TSviVRH2jlCw82v43JM_amlsJgbn8593T_llW8nDcmuIWPU1SVjXlnfcOO97qlCOPGFRBJflfbid1C20McQTpotTm0VBlY71iiACAJtU9VCrVyIvSwlgnQDkq5vVhLK33m16EA.jpg) And her is so thick [http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/RAAAAL6N\_EG4TSviVRH2jlCw82utHuegRik4iThwrN1mRfb-vESeSSh-a8U-cZ-E8VVbKJA2x2I3lsAo3OZga1C-8guFb1hmeR7BoQGmPCjB1ZePAJtU9VB7BRSNw8iuqKIerqOQuA9d4S9EPQ.jpg](http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/RAAAAL6N_EG4TSviVRH2jlCw82utHuegRik4iThwrN1mRfb-vESeSSh-a8U-cZ-E8VVbKJA2x2I3lsAo3OZga1C-8guFb1hmeR7BoQGmPCjB1ZePAJtU9VB7BRSNw8iuqKIerqOQuA9d4S9EPQ.jpg) ---
**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, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/54 "2013-11-11T14:15:32Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > You can tell she’s been doing her shrugs in that last pic! Yes, she developed it like in this pic [http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/OwAAAImWFi72RVkTAUHcWpXBpvRlYrl2BOaZluMhOMDvuxrEeeGvsKf20xTpeV-3spfwPihTBN0KjanvI5sc78tsW\_0Am1T1UFwKiPvR7xo5Jgf4T-n4MGPi5gw4.jpg](http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/OwAAAImWFi72RVkTAUHcWpXBpvRlYrl2BOaZluMhOMDvuxrEeeGvsKf20xTpeV-3spfwPihTBN0KjanvI5sc78tsW_0Am1T1UFwKiPvR7xo5Jgf4T-n4MGPi5gw4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/55 "2013-11-11T14:44:17Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > And her is so thick > [http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/RAAAAL6N\_EG4TSviVRH2jlCw82utHuegRik4iThwrN1mRfb-vESeSSh-a8U-cZ-E8VVbKJA2x2I3lsAo3OZga1C-8guFb1hmeR7BoQGmPCjB1ZePAJtU9VB7BRSNw8iuqKIerqOQuA9d4S9EPQ.jpg](http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/RAAAAL6N_EG4TSviVRH2jlCw82utHuegRik4iThwrN1mRfb-vESeSSh-a8U-cZ-E8VVbKJA2x2I3lsAo3OZga1C-8guFb1hmeR7BoQGmPCjB1ZePAJtU9VB7BRSNw8iuqKIerqOQuA9d4S9EPQ.jpg) Thick…Solid…Tight, right bro? You mirin? Yeah, you mirin. In any event, I don’t think Britney is on da cell tech. I don’t think she’s that ‘big’ either. It looks like she works out and has good genetics for shoulders/arms, but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/56 "2013-11-11T15:12:16Z")
People react to cardio and weight training differently. Some will bulk up quickly, some will tone and become more ripped and others will never show a lot of body change no matter how much they work out. Britney just so happens to have a regimen far more robust than most people and a genetic makeup suited for it, she looks fantastic, quite healthy really. She does not look manly or like she’s abusing PEDs and your rationale for levelling such accusations is uninformed and completely without merit. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/57 "2013-11-11T15:30:00Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Yes, she developed it like in this pic > [http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/OwAAAImWFi72RVkTAUHcWpXBpvRlYrl2BOaZluMhOMDvuxrEeeGvsKf20xTpeV-3spfwPihTBN0KjanvI5sc78tsW\_0Am1T1UFwKiPvR7xo5Jgf4T-n4MGPi5gw4.jpg](http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/OwAAAImWFi72RVkTAUHcWpXBpvRlYrl2BOaZluMhOMDvuxrEeeGvsKf20xTpeV-3spfwPihTBN0KjanvI5sc78tsW_0Am1T1UFwKiPvR7xo5Jgf4T-n4MGPi5gw4.jpg) What’s the deal with your Britney obsession? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/58 "2013-11-11T15:30:06Z")
I think she’s a strong country type girl and has that physique. Not every girl is dainty and little, and when you check out her videos when younger, while slim, she’s not really skinny. I like the look better than, say, Keira Knightley’s look. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/59 "2013-11-11T16:31:09Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Women hardly get big arms naturally only liftign weights As opposed to men? Muscles don’t come for free, whatever your gender. What you seem to think is that guys are naturally muscular, when what is likely happening is you’re seeing guys so skinny they have definition despite being pretty wimpy as far as strength. The dichotomy I usually see is sci-fi/fantasy nerds like the Amazon/Valkyrie look while hipster/slacker types are threatened by it - despite both groups looking like Michael Cera during Ramadan. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/60 "2013-11-11T16:38:19Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > What’s the deal with your Britney obsession? I’d kind of like to know that [as well](http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=158185513)… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568.md?page=4)