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I was about to say much the same thing.  Baffling. ??? ::)

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You sir, shure know your way with words.

Thanks for the compliment. 😉

And we might be different, or not exactly what mainstream media tells us to do or like. But one thing is shure, we are way more centered and open to new or different things than most of the guys and gals at most of those blogs/boards. I mean, it is the way of human nature, if we look at it in a wider view. The same thing happend when european conquerors came to america ( and I mean all of AMERICA) the complettley trashed the native cultre because it was different from theirs. But never actually took a second to analize or event try to understand what they were seeing.

It is easier to cover your ears and close your eyes and trash what might be against your beliefs than take the time to analize it, see if there is a posibility to actually accept it or embrace it, or if still you can't live that way, just let those who live it , live. We don't go to every board around and trash the slender, frail, almost sickennig image of women because it is not of our liking, we let them live their own lifes nad get bussy with ours.

Just my thoughts.

Exactly.  We've all done it in our lives.  Look, if someone says "Look at this woman – she has large muscles which I find ugly."  Then I'd have no beef with them at all.  It's when they respond to it with nastiness or slander that it's unacceptable.  Much of it is from fear; fear of women (misoygny is not so much hatred of women as it is fear) and fear of what might happen to some men if women become more physically powerful.  So many men are threatened by women, and, as glass ceilings have been shattered, many ofthese men have used physical strength as their last refuge from reality "At least there are jobs I can do that no feale can, because I am strong and they are weak" is their mindset.  So, when they see even a small, fit physique like Morse, they hate it because they fear the consequences.

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When I first joined this madhouse called Amaz0ns (winter '06), I doubted my love of muscular women.  I tried to "cure" myself, cancelled my membership, rejoined, deliberated and agonised.  It's only natural.  Now?  I laugh at stuff like that article about A-Rod.  Yes, there are hideous steroid victims around.  Are they representative of the whole of female bodybuilding?  No.  Not even at the Ms Olympia.  And is the Ms O representative of FBBing on a wider basis?  Again, no.  It's a spectrum.  At one end you have the Jodi Millers, Johanna Dejagers and Gina Farnsworths.  At the other, you have Nicole Bass.  The point is that there's room within the FBBing world, even excluding Figure and Fitness and European Bodyfitness, for all tastes. 

That article was an extreme reaction.  It was written because the writer is trying to be snarky and "clever".  He/she is playing on the fact that the wider population has a distrust about muscular women.  This distrust or unease usually manifests itself in one or more of the following gut reactions:

1.  Ewww.
2.  It's a man.
3.  It's a steroid abuser.
4.  She's a lesbian.
5.  Don't tell a soul, but I'm actually turned-on.  I'm ashamed of this reaction, so I'll pretend that I think one of 1-4.

We are in a sixth group.

6.  Mmmmm!  She's hot!

Needless to sy, the writer of that article is pandering to groups 1-4 whilst not alienating group 5.  Group 6?  Well, we're weird.  But are we?

If you go back, say 15 years, there were more of us.  There was the original American Gladiators (or just plain Gladiators for Brits like me).  There was Cory Everson as Atalanta, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley and Jeanette Goldstein as Vasquez, FBBing was shown on TV, and being buff was cool.  Then, something bad happened.  Trends shifted towards the girlie, doll-like appearance, and Ms Olympia became a minority affair due to the appearance ofthe competitors.  Where are we now?  We're just starting to pull-out of a massive trough we've been in for years.  There is slightly increased coverage for buff women now, but there's still plenty enough public inertia to provide these gossip writers with comedic potential.

In short, though it seems like a cliche; we are not weird.  We are DIFFERENT.

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Same here.  At Uni, there is a girl with whom I was friends as an Undergraduate.  She's now finished her PhD, and, whilst I always fancied her, the thought of her gettng buff has long been a pleasant daydream.

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Great finds all, Sir zefly – especially that one by Sinclair, don't know if its the pose or the ponytail, probably both.  😉

I've always loved girls in ponytails too. 😉  That's another hugely-muscles She-Hulk rendering to go wit the one you posted, Alex. 8)

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Thanks, bloody frog-leg eater! 8) ;D

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DCM's back! ;D 8)  I worry about NO, though.  Gustav looks hoorible.  Glad I'm safely ensconsed in boring old Blighty.

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[font=times new roman]~Mimi[/size”>[/font]

Mimi – seriously, send this to Melissa.  It would make a wonderful homepage image for her. 8)

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She would be perfect if she got a nose job.

No, she's fine as she is.  I really don't care for this Hollywood stuff that decrees that, if a part of the body doesn't match the "ideal" then the person should have surgery.  It gives her character and is part of who she is.

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Much as I love muscular women and DCM's Tetsuko reigns supreme in the superhero genre' (or is at least in the Top 5), some characters just need to be simply strong and athletic looking. Lara Croft is one of those. Large muscles just don't work on that character.

I'm not wanting to pick an argument with you, CptMatt, but, for me, large muscles work on any character! 😉

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