# I feel slightly disgusted by people with no muscle tone.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-slightly-disgusted-by-people-with-no-muscle-tone/58027 "2001-03-15T00:16:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-slightly-disgusted-by-people-with-no-muscle-tone/58027/41 "2001-03-15T07:32:48Z")
Hey, you just described me and I’m really offended. If people believed what you said they might think that I’m a lazy bastard because I am slim. If they think I’m a bastard that reflects poorly on my parents. You aren’t insulting my momma are you? I think I met you at the gym once. Weren’t you the muscle head who scoffed at me when I asked to rotate in on some equipment. You were really embarassed when I could press more than you could. I can’t believe you have carried a grudge this long and found me here. I had really thought I’d lost you. ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-slightly-disgusted-by-people-with-no-muscle-tone/58027/42 "2001-03-15T07:52:15Z")
Vision, you can’t put down the appearance of others without providing a picture of yourself. Come on! Let’s see it. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-slightly-disgusted-by-people-with-no-muscle-tone/58027/43 "2001-03-15T07:59:48Z")
I have been thinking about it and I still can’t see why you decided to bring up this topic. You brought up some lame reason for it again and again. Well, let me tell you this. I used to be a swimmer, I worked out very lightly as a teen, mostly swam for competition. You know what they used to call me? “Jock Woman” because of my short stature and the fact that at the slightest amount of working out I looked like a miniature football player as I bulk out. A 5’3" young woman who looked like a football player. Oh yeah some might find that mildly attractive but when your teenage male counterparts have smaller shoulders, legs and arms than you, you pretty much feel like a freak of nature. I would love to have long sulty legs, arms that keep going and a neck that doesn’t look like I have swallowed a whole chicken butt end first and it got stuck right at where a man’s adam’s apple is. But that’s not me. I am short and stocky. Some days I love it, some days I hate it. But it will ALWAYS come down to who your parent’s are. I have known girls who are 6’ at twelve years old and could trip over a pebble. I have known boys to be gangly and eventually be more muscular than anyone on the block. I have dated and almost got married to a man who was extremely thin but did have well defined muscles. I have dated a man who was muscle bound and could bench press more than anyone we knew. I have dated short men, tall men, thick men, skinny men…but it always has gone back to one thing, if they are compatible with me emotionally then they are the ones I look back on as people I care about. I have dated balding, thin, short fat, etc…I know I pretty much am the problem but I can’t think of one man I dated that would not see me in a restaurant or a club and at least want to see what I am up to, in a sincere way. My best friends are not of the skinny variety or the extremelly thin variety, they are people and people first and foremost. I have a friend that walks on a cane because of MS, at first it was mildly strange but I got used to it because I got to know her inner being. I have a friend that is deaf and a grandmother that was legally blind. What I am getting at is, skinny, fat, thin, limping or whatever does not make the person. If your “friend” is skinny and can’t lift more than a five pound wieght, so what, if he is your friend then be a friend and not a judgmental ass, not only with your friend but on the boards as well. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-slightly-disgusted-by-people-with-no-muscle-tone/58027/44 "2001-03-15T10:08:47Z")
OK, that’s enough already. **Vision** : I think you’d better think again the next time you start a thread. As you can see, this topic did not go down very well. I think you can understand why. Next time, make sure you word your opinion in a more constructive way - to say the least. The next time you start a topic, I’d advise you to town down the profanity a notch as well. MPSIMS is a forum intended for well-mannered chit-chat. Insults and gratuitous profanity belong in the BBQ Pit. **Teeming Millions** (well, not all of them): The next time a thread like this comes up, I’d appreciate it if you don’t start slinging insults at the OP, no matter how inane or insulting you think the subject is. **Don’t** curse at someone in MPSIMS, even if you **do** think it will end up in the Pit anyway. Just because no moderator spots it for a few hours doesn’t mean you have _Carte Blanche_ to behave like a howling mob. You all know this already. If a post offends you, e-mail a moderator. This thread is closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-slightly-disgusted-by-people-with-no-muscle-tone/58027.md?page=2)