# Strength and Beauty **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 15, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149 "2011-07-15T17:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/1 "2011-07-15T17:46:24Z")
I was really struck by this photo gallery of the US Women’s National Team. It’s pretty common knowledge that [Heather Mitts](http://www.sports-wired.com/women/heather_mitts/wos670.jpg) and [Alex Morgan](http://www.thesportsbank.net/core/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/2.jpg) are hotties, and most everyone who has a pulse and has played soccer, or just longed for the girl next door, should have a crush on [Hope Solo](http://sports.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hope-solo-1.jpg). But they did a great job of showing the beauty in all of the women, some who don’t come across that great when sweaty and fresh from battle. Enjoy: [Meet the US Team](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1106/soccer-usa-womens-world-cup-team/content.1.html?cnn=yes&hpt=hp_abar) (from CNN SI) ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/2 "2011-07-15T19:28:09Z")
Couple of cuties. Big whoop. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/3 "2011-08-01T00:31:44Z")
Big whoop?! Oh, **Philster**. When was it that you lost your grace? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/4 "2011-08-01T02:11:47Z")
A few of them look kind of cute, but I see hotter women every day on campus. And several of them look like fairly handsome young men. And what’s this “caps” statistic that’s quoted for all of them? It seems to range from 5 to somewhere around 150, and I can’t think of any sports statistic that could vary that much. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/5 "2011-08-01T02:24:41Z")
Caps are the soccer version of Mardi Gras’ beads. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/6 "2011-08-01T02:41:12Z")
Ali Krieger & Hope Solo are pretty cute, but they need to be checking #10 for a dick. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/7 "2011-08-01T05:19:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Caps are the soccer version of Mardi Gras’ beads. So… Fans throw them headwear in the hopes that they’ll flash them? And someone actually keeps a count of how many caps each has been given? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/8 "2011-08-01T05:33:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A few of them look kind of cute, but I see hotter women every day on campus. And several of them look like fairly handsome young men. > > And what’s this “caps” statistic that’s quoted for all of them? It seems to range from 5 to somewhere around 150, and I can’t think of any sports statistic that could vary that much. How many games you’ve been on the roster for the national team. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/9 "2011-08-01T15:23:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A few of them look kind of cute, but I see hotter women every day on campus. And several of them look like fairly handsome young men. > [@bump](#): > > Ali Krieger & Hope Solo are pretty cute, but they need to be checking #10 for a dick. Oh no! Someone posted pictures of women not to your taste! Better make wisecracks about their lack of femininity and probable possession of male genitalia! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/10 "2011-08-01T15:38:09Z")
In case you hadn’t noticed, the entire purpose of this thread is to comment on the appearance of a set of women. If it’s reasonable for the OP to refer to some of them as hotties, it’s also reasonable for **bump** and I to point out that several of them look very masculine. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/11 "2011-08-01T15:50:35Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > In case you hadn’t noticed, the entire purpose of this thread is to comment on the appearance of a set of women. If it’s reasonable for the OP to refer to some of them as hotties, it’s also reasonable for **bump** and I to point out that several of them look very masculine. FWIW, I was out to lunch when the US women were playing Brazil and a corner-kick came up, and I didn’t realize that it was the women’s team, and I thought that the guy who was doing the corner kick had the girliest haircut ever. So at least from where I’m sitting, some of them look pretty damned un-feminine if I’m watching them play, and think they’re girly looking men, instead of a women’s team. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/12 "2011-08-01T15:59:15Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > In case you hadn’t noticed, the entire purpose of this thread is to comment on the appearance of a set of women. If it’s reasonable for the OP to refer to some of them as hotties, it’s also reasonable for **bump** and I to point out that several of them look very masculine. And it’s reasonable, in turn, for me to bust your balls about it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/13 "2011-08-01T17:01:25Z")
Not only do some of them not look particularly feminine, some of them don’t look particularly American. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/14 "2011-08-01T17:50:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Not only do some of them not look particularly feminine, some of them don’t look particularly American. That, I won’t complain about. There’s nothing that looks more American than not looking American. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strength-and-beauty/589149/15 "2011-08-01T18:02:06Z")
If you want to talk about Strength and Beauty, look no further than the NEW women’s 135-lb. MMA champion [Miesha Tate](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_RMIteyRoo&feature=related).