# Muscular Women **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069 "2012-07-13T00:53:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ele\_the\_Stoic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ele\_the\_Stoic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ele_the_Stoic)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/101 "2012-07-15T08:23:32Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > I’m a straight woman attracted to male bodybuilders (even, or perhaps especially, to the extreme), but my female friends aren’t, and I suspect it has a lot to do with the fact that I lift weights and they don’t. If you asked women who spent a lot of time in the free weights section of the gym, I wonder if you’d find more yeses. I wondered this as well. I exercise, though I’m by no means a bodybuilder. Obviously if you think it looks good on you, you’re likely to think it looks good on others, but I tend to appreciate the “respect” for lack of a better term, women who work out show their bodies. They’re certainly not inclined to ask if that dress makes them look frumpy. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/102 "2012-07-15T08:32:19Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Speaking of soft, I’ve noticed that muscular men tend to look softer than muscular women. This seems like it would be the opposite of normal–that women, with their larger layer of subcutaneous fat, would look softer. I expect the woman in the OP has lost that layer. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/103 "2012-07-15T12:33:37Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Give me, for instance, the entire US women’s soccer team, except I suppose the gay ones. One at a time, please! I’ll take the ones you don’t want. Waste not, want not and all. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/104 "2012-07-15T13:00:39Z")
Beach volleyball fit is my limit. And perfect preference. There’s a boyish masculinity to them with their [slim hips and broad shoulders](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02264/mullin-dampney_2264532b.jpg), but they are amaaaazingly attractive to me. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/105 "2012-07-15T13:21:38Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > I voted “attractive” but want to qualify that I find most women attractive, muscular or not. The woman in the OP photo is probably on the edge for me - extreme bodybuilder-type physiques would not do anything for me. The woman in the OP is an extreme bodybuilder-type. Someone later posted a link to her in competition. She just does not happen to be posing in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/106 "2012-07-15T13:51:35Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’ll take the ones you don’t want. Waste not, want not and all. It’s not that I don’t want the gay ones, but they don’t want me, so you’re out of luck. Come to think of it, the straight ones probably don’t want me either, so I’m out of luck too. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/107 "2012-07-15T14:30:46Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The woman in the OP is an extreme bodybuilder-type. Someone later posted a link to her in competition. She just does not happen to be posing in the OP. Assistance please, which post is the woman in the OP shown again? I’m having some trouble with vision this morning and focusing on text. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/108 "2012-07-15T14:41:05Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > Assistance please, which post is the woman in the OP shown again? I’m having some trouble with vision this morning and focusing on text. ☹ I did not quite remember it correctly. But if you want to get a better idea of what she looks like from all angles google Minna Pujulahti. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/109 "2012-07-15T15:27:13Z")
Woman pictured is not attractive to me, overly muscled, and not attractive, although not repulsive, either. Some women go farther and start to edge into, if not repulsive, at least circus type territory (I’m a straight male and same goes for male body builders, fwiw). Women who are more naturally muscled, less pumped can be very attractive to me. For example, the [athletes pictured in the ESPN the Magazine Bodies issue tend to be more my ideal. **Warning: Tasteful nudity may not be appropriate for all situations**.](http://espn.go.com/espn/photos/gallery/_/id/8136693/image/1/carlos-bocanegra-2012-body-issue-bodies-want-espn-magazine) ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/110 "2012-07-15T15:36:12Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I did not quite remember it correctly. But if you want to get a better idea of what she looks like from all angles google Minna Pujulahti. OK, done. I’ve seen much more extreme, but your point is taken. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/111 "2012-07-15T17:52:36Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Being that driven to bulk up (by a male or female) probably means we have a much different world view, and I’m not sure we’d really hit it off. I’m curious by this statement. How do you infer a person’s world view from their apparent desire to add muscle mass to their frame? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/112 "2012-07-15T18:03:48Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I’m curious by this statement. How do you infer a person’s world view from their apparent desire to add muscle mass to their frame? Through the magic of stereotypes. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/113 "2012-07-15T18:37:55Z")
A woman’s shoulders should not be larger than her breasts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069/114 "2012-07-15T18:42:01Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Through the magic of stereotypes. Well, there were studies not too long ago about muscular/strong men being more like to [vote conservative](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9197597/Strong-men-more-likely-to-vote-Conservative.html) and [be sexest](http://www.livescience.com/21172-men-sexist-attitudes-muscles.html). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscular-women/628069.md?page=5)