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March 5, 2008 at 3:13 pm #68136
Prophet Tenebrae
ParticipantYou won't like this link… No you won't like it at all.
March 5, 2008 at 4:07 pm #68137Devon Cory
ParticipantI don't like it but I understand it. Because looking at these photos, the ladies do not look good and healthy. The problem isn't that these women have muscles or musular definition. It's that they're too thin. And that's Hollywood's fault.
What really angered me about this article, is the derogatory comments found under each photo: what one would rather be doing than training, how another hates her muscles, etc. Newsflash Hollywood people: toned muscles are good for women. Men could all be spindly thin, it doesn't matter. We don't have to hunt mammoths anymore. But women still carry children as far as I know, and muscles, a healthy heart and a lack of superfluous fat help with that.
March 5, 2008 at 7:12 pm #68138Fett
ParticipantThose women aren't muscular. They're so ludicrously you can just see all their muscles. They're muscles aren't big.
These women are exercising whilst still indulging in the horrendous dieting they do to remain size -5 or whatever the fuck.
Gym ain't the problem – their diet (or lack of it) is. It's quite obvious that's the problem.
March 5, 2008 at 8:38 pm #68139
fasolaParticipantyou know, there are many things in that article that piss me off, but the most are the lack of serious reserch about working out and dieting (on that article) because they are not buff they are extremelly and dengerously deffined, that low level of body fat has to be way too dangerous for them. And also, that so called personal trainer that they qoute on the article, it seems he doesn't even know about anything. And that line about Sarah J Parker having developed "chest muscles" I still don't understand what he is trying to imply.
Man I'm pissed.
March 5, 2008 at 8:41 pm #68140MaxxC
ParticipantMeh… the editors must have gotten bored of all the good looking muscular celebrities. :p
March 5, 2008 at 9:59 pm #68141cpbell0033944
ParticipantI was going to post a long, rambling response, but just add Fett's comment to Cashews' comment and you've got my opinion. If these women had healthy bodyfat percentages (i.e around 15-20% which is ideal for women) you'd hardly see any muscle at all. I think the giveaway is biceps. Look at these women's arms, and the bicep looks like a length of rope. We all know here that biceps should be round, full and ideally with a longitudinal split. I'm convinced that half of what the idiot writer and the even bigger idiot personal trainers are calling muscle is actually tendons, ligaments etc. I agree with the writer on one thing – they're not attractive, but, as Fett and Cashews have said, it's their bf %ages (possibly down around 10-12%) that is the problem. Proper muscle and 18% fat and they'd look fantastic.
March 5, 2008 at 10:23 pm #68142BlackKusanagi
ParticipantTheyre all pushing near anorexic…so WTF is up with that…??
March 5, 2008 at 10:48 pm #68143ParticipantYeah, I think if you're working out as much as they seem to be – you can afford to eat more than a famine victim… to be honest, I never really rated any of these girls without muscles… so, no real loss but yes, it's definitely a case of them being scrawny as a whole that makes their muscle stand out… not very pretty muscle it has to be said.
But you'll notice, it's never said "Damn those skinny wretches."
March 5, 2008 at 11:17 pm #68144ParticipantYeah, I think if you're working out as much as they seem to be – you can afford to eat more than a famine victim… to be honest, I never really rated any of these girls without muscles… so, no real loss but yes, it's definitely a case of them being scrawny as a whole that makes their muscle stand out… not very pretty muscle it has to be said.
But you'll notice, it's never said "Damn those skinny wretches."
The dangerously low bodyfat isn't thought-of as being problematic by society, unfortunately, but a woman daring to be anything other than a delicate, fragile, dependent flower…completely unacceptable. Then again, attitudes do change with time; just consider society's attitude to childbirth – women were confined to bed for weeks after labour in the 19th century. There's hope for a change, but it'll be gradual.
March 6, 2008 at 2:43 am #68145
AlexGKeymasterJust a side bar to Prophet Tenebrae – the title, a tip of the hat to the Wonder Twins / Super Friends? 8)
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