Can't see it doing a huge amount, in all honesty.

My own opinion is that if the FBBr is positively packaged, say on the lines of Cory Everson as Atalanta in the Herc series, as a balance of feminine with the overt  buffed-up-ness along with a really good storyline (say, one written by Terry19d) and a director who cares about the character, it might give people, particularly women, a pause for thought that muscles on females aren't so bad, are even attractive looking.

It certainly was the case with Linda Hamilton after the T2 movie.

The transformation could be handled in a more subtle manner.  Rather then violent, it could be gradual or even a personal moment of unexpected revelation.  I know that that won't be to the liking of the die-hard Savage types, but it wouldn't be the first time that a particular superheroic character's background had to be "modified" in order to be marketable to a broader audience.

AlexG said...


...thereby saying what I wanted to say, but chickened out of.  I think that female muscularity, either already extant or newly-developing ( ) can be sold to the great unwashed, as long as it's handled sensitively.  What I'd like to see put across to people is not only the empowerment of buffness, but also the idea that it enhances femininity, not reduces it.  The fact is that a balanced, proportioned muscular physique enhances women's natural shape and curves.  I would propose, as did Alex, that a 'classic' femuscular physique would be a good starting-point: as much as some here (myself occasionally included) may like hyper-muscle, it can look bulky when at its extreme, and, sadly, so often goes hand-in-hand with an androgenic appearance, which, a few hardcore schmoes apart, will kill any popular interest stone-dead.
As Alex says, storyline and character development is utterly imperative also.  An empty shell whose only feature of note is being hugely muscular will only reinforce erroneous stereotypes.  One has to think "mass-market" here, and what people like is characters they can understand and empathise with.

With regards to the actual "hulking" aspect, I always find the idea that US a movie (I'm giving-up using British English here as most of our members are from the US) showing a woman's breasts is too provocative for cinema, yet movies with multiple gory deaths and what I call the "everyotherwordisf***" syndrome to be rather ridiculous.  If censor's ratings are insufficient to tell people that the film has adult content, then they should stay away and take-up knitting.  As for the muscle growth being taboo - well, this is why I feel that more exposure in movies and on TV for buff female characters, in the mould (mold?) of Atalanta would be better preceeding a movie with FMG content, as, if the audience aren't comfortable with femuscle, they won't be happy with FMG.

Yet again, AlexG puts what I'm thinking 100x better than I can, using 90% fewer words.  Will you be my official spokesman, please?