Tough gals

It is a shame that the debate here was centered around the extreme of today’s professional female bodybuilders. Whether it is steroid abuse or just access to ridiculous levels of training data and supplemnts, it is clear that many of today’s female bodybuilders have been able to achieve a level of muscalurity that affects their feminism (just, as has been notes here, so do the men look fairly freakish). And that is not to judge them – they are free to pursue their look and should be viewed as athletes, more than pinups. However, debates like this one about their look, quickly tend to fall to whether women should be lifting heavy weights and generally trying to get strong. And in that regard, it is unfair. Instead of the tiny percent of women to go to the extreme shown here, even if you want to use extremes, professional fitness or figure models should be substituted. There would be a much smaller debate about their attractiveness. I am a redblooded, straight guy who has been blessed with being able to date, over the years, many attractive girls from across the spectrum – from a “heroic chic” waifish model to a olympic athlete. Generally thouhg, most of the girls I have dated have tried hard to meet societies’ expectations and were a bit underweight and without much muscle tone – and considered to be “hot” by my friends. Without exception though, going just by looks, once you got them naked and fooled around a bit, there was and is nothing better, sexier and more fun than dating a athletic woman, with real muscle tone. I am not talking about aerobic classes twice a week. I am talking about women who train with heavy weights. Some of these girls could squat or leg press more than most guys you know. That is why their asses look so good in jeans and that is why their bodies’ burn so much fat that they maintain tight abs even while eating more or less, whatever they want. And that is why I married one To this day, my wife’s friends ask her about her diet secrets but many refuse to believe that lifting heavy won’t make them look like the women in the pictures above. Yet at the same time, they (and their husbands) always ask her to flex and say how sexy her muscle looks. In broader society, women like Jessica Biel and female superheroes like Wonder Woman are fetishized widely (named sexiest woman of ht year) and so I think that this proclivity is pretty popular. So in short, I think strong powerful muscular females are uber sexy and that this is where the attention should be directed relative to what is or is not attractive – not at the tiny minority of women who bulk up to be professional bodybuilders – whose sole goal is to be judged by the size of their muscles.

GROSE, some of these look like men too…

I guess you don’t find them attractive just ‘cuz you don’t want to feel wak in fron of them, am I right? I think that’s quite sad, actually.
And I guess that you know that they have the muscles to crush your nose if you try anything on them, which makes them less attractive to you men.

Sad, so sad.

As a Doctor I can tell you the majority of these Female Bodybuilders are causing permanent damage to their insides Period! I won’t go into details but sustaining long periods of Steroids and testosterone derivatives are causing irreversible damage.
It’s common for my colleagues and me to see women AND men coming for issues associated with coronary and other organ damage. To seek what they envisage as “Body-Beautiful” is a loser’s game. As addictive as it is to look at yourself with the body that you want and boost your ego in the meantime, the damage sustained when these “athletes” get older is quite startling!
Listen ladies AND guys, train hard, eat well and get a lot of sleep, take your whey protein and eat a good mix of carbs along with fruit and cut down your sugar, and eventually you will get what you desire. Please don’t end up like the countless “not so famous” bodybuilders who die each year trying to emulate their idols!

The saddest part to me is that these women are still objectifying themselves in the traditional way. Trying to be “sexy” in the most obvious way. Truly pathetic. If they wanted to take sexy photos also they would be much more so in a different way… body beautiful. Though quite a few of these had to be taking hormones, etc they have too many male traits and too few female to believe in a group especially that they are not doing something. Some of the women I thought looked beautiful and strong and healthy, others were absolutely ridiculous and those huge fake breasts make it worse!
Some of them should definitely have professionals check them out… I wonder what before, and progression shots would be like to see how they started and how they have totally modified themselves from anything they were before. Truly hating themselves. Changed appearance and body shape totally, breast implants, tanning, dying hair, and collagen in the lips… SAD!

It’s a man baby…

My preference is for a girl to be physically fit, but not work out so much that she becomes something grotesque and unnatural. Most of these photos show women (and the same would be true of men to some extent) who have their veins and muscles popping out so much that it just looks freakish. My veins pop out when I am working out or just plain working, but when I am at rest, they recede and I look perfectly normal. I want a girl who can take care of herself if she’s out alone, but I’m not about to hook up with anyone who reminds me of the Incredible Hulk.

really hot
29
hot
1,2,4,8,12,23,54,55
hot, but shouldn’t have had the boob job
7,13,16
how did #28 slip in there?? she looks almost anorexic!

But really its not hard to distinguish between hard workers and steroid takers. The raised veins to that extent pont to steroid abuse. And the square jaw, Please stop.

There are a handfull of these women who are not bodybuilders. That said a lot of the women here embody what is bad about female athleticism. A lot of the women here abuse steroids on a regular basis to get the look they have. There is a good chance a lot of them have “unresolved issues” because they simultaneously try to circumvent and conform to stereotypes of female atractiveness.

The way I see it, it is unfortunate that these type of images become the archetype for physically strong women. If you wanted to, there may be a case for mysogenism on the part of the media and parts of society, that use grotesquely muscled women as a fear motivator to stop normal women persuing personal physical strength and fitness and therefore independence. Male bodybuilders are not used as examples to stop men from becoming physically strong.

That is not necessarily the case, but for my own tastes I like a certain level of muscularity on a woman. I think fitness and some figure athletes are unfeasably hot while still retaining their femininity and track athletes are the same. Women like Jessica Ennis are awesomely hot, but also physically fit and strong.

IMO, most of the “ladies” look fake. Like they took pictures of men and just photoshoped female head on to them.

Id have to say that these photos excited me. I dont know what it is about a big strong woman that turns me on But these were Out standing peaces of Human ART work and I hope every one got the Same aesthetic value that i did