# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/81 "2013-11-11T20:28:55Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > to a female than is not a athlete get neck thickness in this level I believe it’s likely she’s on steroids. > > Do you think women are taking steroids only to their works??? You’re an innocent, guy 😃 > > I’m live in Brazil in here a lot of women are taking steroids - and some of them admit it. Muscular women is becoming a standard here - mainly about legs So recreational use of anabolic steroids-among _women_-is a big thing?? Cite? ---
**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, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/82 "2013-11-11T21:19:03Z")
This has to be one of the strangest obssessions I’ve seen on the internet, and considering what’s on the internet, that’s saying something. Someone fixated onconvincing others that Britney Spears has masculine arms - not other women with developed biceps, and not any other part of Britney’s physique, by someone that knows next to nothing about strength training or female anatomy (okay, this is the net, that last is a given). This is creepier than that guy who likes to see women’s feet mashing the gas pedal of a car. ---
**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, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/83 "2013-11-11T21:57:30Z")
IMO, you don’t really know what is possible for women to achieve with good genetics and a good workout regime. Yes, it’s possible that many women are using steroids. And it’s even possible (although implausible to the point of ridiculousness) that Britney Spears is using steroids, but you’ve given no evidence for that. Just some photos of a women in pretty good shape. I have friends who do nothing more than Crossfit that have more muscular physiques than BS so I can only conclude that you don’t really know what you’re talking about here. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/84 "2013-11-11T23:12:51Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > This has to be one of the strangest obssessions I’ve seen on the internet, and considering what’s on the internet, that’s saying something. Stranger than the person who keeps insisting that an actress has been hiding a pregnancy (perhaps for years)? ---
**Author:** ![Danny92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Danny92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danny92)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/85 "2013-11-12T00:50:02Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > IMO, you don’t really know what is possible for women to achieve with good genetics and a good workout regime. Yes, it’s possible that many women are using steroids. And it’s even possible (although implausible to the point of ridiculousness) that Britney Spears is using steroids, but you’ve given no evidence for that. Just some photos of a women in pretty good shape. > > I have friends who do nothing more than Crossfit that have more muscular physiques than BS so I can only conclude that you don’t really know what you’re talking about here. Crossfit builds more muscle than weight lifting, man. Crossfit women are usually buff ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/86 "2013-11-12T00:53:50Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Crossfit builds more muscle than weight lifting, man. Crossfit women are usually buff U wot m8? 'Aving a giggle? ---
**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 12, 2013, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/87 "2013-11-12T00:54:49Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Crossfit builds more muscle than weight lifting, man. Crossfit women are usually buff Let us know when a major bodybuilding title is won by someone who uses Crossfit instead of weights. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/88 "2013-11-12T01:13:16Z")
Ok Danny, which do you think would win in a fight between a lion and a tiger? ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/89 "2013-11-12T01:14:58Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Crossfit builds more muscle than weight lifting, man. Crossfit women are usually buff Wow. You don’t work out _at all_, do you? Which sort of explains why a mere slip of a girl like Britney seems threatening. I was cracking up in that other thread where you said you could see her “tris and delts.” I’m with GainsBrah over there - you’ve got girly arms and decided hers must be manly. ---
**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 12, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/90 "2013-11-12T01:18:02Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > Ok Danny, which do you think would win in a fight between a lion and a tiger? More important. Ginger or Maryann? Bailey or Jennifer? Toilet paper. Over or under? Chili. Beans or no beans? ---
**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 12, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/91 "2013-11-12T01:27:09Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > Crossfit builds more muscle than weight lifting, man. Crossfit women are usually buff Yes, you’ve made it clear that you know nothing about weightlifting and how it relates to women’s muscle building. Everything you’ve posted so far in this thread just solidifies that. ---
**Author:** ![Danny92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Danny92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danny92)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/92 "2013-11-12T01:34:38Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Let us know when a major bodybuilding title is won by someone who uses Crossfit instead of weights. bodybuilding = steroids ---
**Author:** ![Danny92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Danny92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danny92)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/93 "2013-11-12T01:36:15Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > Ok Danny, which do you think would win in a fight between a lion and a tiger? I think a tiger would win by submission ---
**Author:** ![Danny92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Danny92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danny92)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/94 "2013-11-12T01:40:01Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Yes, you’ve made it clear that you know nothing about weightlifting and how it relates to women’s muscle building. Everything you’ve posted so far in this thread just solidifies that. I’ve worked out by 6 years In my gym around 90% of the girls don’t built great muscle arms. The other 10% took steroids. Tme most of female works out hard only the low body but all the chicks I know who are lifting heavy weights for their upper arms aren’t like Britney. The crossfit girls I’ve seen are way more muscled ---
**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 12, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/95 "2013-11-12T02:10:38Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > I’ve worked out by 6 years > > In my gym around 90% of the girls don’t built great muscle arms. The other 10% took steroids. Tme most of female works out hard only the low body but all the chicks I know who are lifting heavy weights for their upper arms aren’t like Britney. > > The crossfit girls I’ve seen are way more muscled The vast majority of women in a gym aren’t looking to build big arms. How do you determine those who are taking steroids? The big arms? And how do you know the Crossfit women aren’t taking steroids? ---
**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 12, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/96 "2013-11-12T02:29:46Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > In my gym around 90% of the girls don’t built great muscle arms. The other 10% took steroids. Tme most of female works out hard only the low body but all the chicks I know who are lifting heavy weights for their upper arms aren’t like Britney. What the heck are you on about? Britney doesn’t have very big arms. There are plenty of women I see in the gym who are bigger than her and that don’t take steroids. Your numbers are no where close to my experiences. Women who are looking to build muscles can do so to a reasonable degree without steroids, certainly more than Ms Spears. You need more than your personal observations to back up your argument. We can play dueling anecdotes all you want, but that’s not the way to make your case. And besides, it’s still all irrelevant if you’re trying to make a case for your mythical “too manly” statement. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/97 "2013-11-12T02:30:44Z")
“Britney Spears has shoulders like a man I can say that and you’ll laugh Cause there’s a puppet on my hand” -Eminem, ‘Ass Like That’ I thought it was commonly accepted that Britney always had a certain…thickness. ---
**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 12, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/98 "2013-11-12T02:39:46Z")
> [@Danny92](#): > > I think a tiger would win by submission Not all tigers are into bondage and discipline 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 12, 2013, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/99 "2013-11-12T11:03:37Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > The vast majority of women in a gym aren’t looking to build big arms. > > How do you determine those who are taking steroids? The big arms? > And how do you know the Crossfit women aren’t taking steroids? Some women are obviously on roids and you don’t need a proof to say it. And otheres just admitted they was. It’s common to some people. I’m not stating that Britney is, but it’s perfectly possible given her manly neck and well developed traps (for a female). Some crossfit women for sure are on roids but you can understand why the natty girls are so buff. They are into strength train by six hours as well as gymmnastic girls ---
**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 12, 2013, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568/100 "2013-11-12T11:10:52Z")
Then how can you claim that Crossfit builds more muscle than lifting if they are all on steroids? Unless you go to a hardcore gym, I seriously doubt there are many, men and women, on steroids. And what the hell is a natty girl? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-britney-spears-manly-arms/673568.md?page=6)