# Opinions wanted about women body builders and muscles on women **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137 "2003-05-14T04:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/1 "2003-05-14T04:31:38Z")
O.K. I’m interested in your opinions… What do you all think of women who have muscles… like body builders. (and I don’t mean all oiled up in funny poses trying to make their muscles and veins stand out) I’m talking in normal everyday life - also women athletes in power sports (track & field) have similar physiques. Is this a turn off for you, or not? Please identify if you’re male or female when you give your opinion. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/2 "2003-05-14T04:46:52Z")
I think muscular women are hot, as long as they’re natural muscles and not steroid-enhanced. I’m attracted to people with kind of long, ropy muscles (think runners vs. weightlifters), and that’s the type of muscles that women typically develop. (I’m a woman, but I appreciate hotness in other women, if you know what I mean.) ---
**Author:** ![DarkPrince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DarkPrince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkPrince)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/3 "2003-05-14T05:02:41Z")
A lean, muscular set of legs is damn attractive. Soccer or tennis players’ physiques are hot!hot!hot!, and much better looking than the girls who rattle around like animated sacks of bones. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/4 "2003-05-14T05:09:15Z")
Muscular woman can be very sexy; however, there is a fine line between sexy and just plain gross. Many woman go one step too far and turn into bodybuilder wannabes. I prefer a little softness around the edges. ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/5 "2003-05-14T05:11:25Z")
Maybe I need to post some picture links so you all know what I mean. Let me see if I can find some. ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/6 "2003-05-14T05:19:10Z")
mmmm, muscular women. Especially broad, muscular shoulders. There’s a reason I spend a lot of time at the gym 🙂 As for my gender: neither/both. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/7 "2003-05-14T05:24:32Z")
If it gives them the confidence they need, I’m all for it. And I am indeed male or female. ---
**Author:** ![One\_Shot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/839c29/32.png) [@One\_Shot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_Shot)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/8 "2003-05-14T05:30:45Z")
I am a guy and I think toned women are incredibly hot, as long as there are still curves. If it goes too far, the curves turn into angles and that’s not cool. ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/9 "2003-05-14T05:33:00Z")
[http://www.bodybuilding-show.com/FBBG/pics/F1/2.jpg](http://www.bodybuilding-show.com/FBBG/pics/F1/2.jpg) O.K. the above is my idea of an average example of a body builder physique. Try to imagine her without the pose. The gender question wasn’t a joke you know. I asked because I was originally going to only poll men, but I figured that wasn’t fair. I want to see if there’s a difference between what men and women think, i.e., if men are more turned off than women or vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/10 "2003-05-14T05:49:18Z")
Put her in the right dress or outfit and she would look fine. I generally prefer women who are as fit as Linda Hamilton was in one of the _Terminator_ films. I especially admire well-toned arms and washboard abs. But I see nothing “wrong” with her doing whatever she likes with her body. I am woman – hear me snore. ---
**Author:** ![Forbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Forbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forbin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/11 "2003-05-14T05:54:07Z")
Rusalka That monster (in the link above) is awful. She is not attractive to me, no sir, no sir, no sirree. \ FTR, I’m male. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/12 "2003-05-14T06:15:38Z")
Well, the woman in the picture is perhaps a _little_ too “buffed” for my tastes, but of course, personality is what really matters. If the woman in the photograph was, for example, a nerd or a geek…Oh, deary me… ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/13 "2003-05-14T06:24:11Z")
Years ago a men’s magazine in Australia had shots of a local champion body builder. They had one photo of her in competition which was much like the one in the link. For the rest she was her normal out of competition self and looked really great, in fact quite petite. So I guess without the posing, dehydrating and pre competition pumping up of muscles it looks good. I’m male. ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/14 "2003-05-14T10:57:38Z")
If you cut the hair of the woman in the photo, I’d line up to get in bed with her 😉 ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/15 "2003-05-14T11:51:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by One Shot \* > \*\*I am a guy and I think toned women are incredibly hot, as long as there are still curves. If it goes too far, the curves turn into angles and that’s not cool. \*\* Amen. Must be curvy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/16 "2003-05-14T12:04:36Z")
Going by the picture, I’d say that really muscular women are _not_ attractive at all. Athlete - yes, Dancer - yes (oh god, yes!) but bodybuilder - no way. Not feminine or sexy at all. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/17 "2003-05-14T12:49:07Z")
Woman here. As for the picture, no, no, no. She can do what she likes with her body, but as long as you are asking for opinions, mine is that she looks horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/18 "2003-05-14T12:54:04Z")
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I’m a guy. At least I was the last time I checked. ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/19 "2003-05-14T13:27:23Z")
“Bodybuilding” produces ugly people, men and women. There is a difference between a healthy and athletic body (one that is meant to move) and a hypertrophoid and grotesque body (one that is meant to pose). Mind you, “hypertrophoid and grotesque” can also apply to standards of “beauty” that encourage women to place truck-sized lumps of inorganic material on their chests. ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/20 "2003-05-14T13:44:33Z")
Women bodybuilders…, muscles on women…, may I say YUUUUMMMMM. Male checking in. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137.md?page=2)