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He's actually referencing the image from the first page.

The artist is very_zenn.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/51714002/

Yep, that's it. Thanks for your attention and sharp eye, KissTheManiac! It's much appreciated.

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I've always had less than polite thoughts about Ms. Orban, but I don't think anyone with two working eyes would blame me.

Here's one that's not so rude: How is T.J. Orban like an onion?

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Is a muscular woman more threatening than I thought…

Yes.

are people just insecure…

Yes, that and close-minded to art (to anything, really) that doesn't fit the prescribed parameters of what they like to look at…

or is a big bicep perverted…

Sometimes it can be…

…and a big breast ok?

Yes, more often than not.

A person drawing a man in tights and wearing a cape is not asked "What are you, gay?"

That would depend where you display said "man tights", and how the figure is drawn. Maybe you haven't experienced it yet, but there are people who believe "superheroes for adults" has homoerotic undertones.

…but a drawing of a muscular woman gets "Whats with you and muscles? Are you a perv?" I am simply amazed. My question is have any of you encountered this kind of muscle-phobic (new word I just created) uglyness and is this a common response.

Clearly, from the lack of responses, you are the only one. 🙂 It's happened to me on the street!

At some point, artists and photographers who deal in images of hyper-muscular women are going to have to accept that the image (or the presence) of a woman with muscles is provocative (clearly many of the respondents have). Exactly what is provoked in people cannot be controlled. It shouldn't be worried over too much, but it should be anticipated. We can't afford to be naïve.

SinD, if you become serious with art beyond doodling ;), you will be forced to develop a tough skin–a layer of armor (hmm, muscles…body armor?) that should remain in place even after you become "good."

Not having seen the doodles in question (that's not a request for a link, just a statement), the query are "You are perv?" (while admittedly not politely phrased) may not be an invalid one, as there is a difference between drawing women bodybuilders as they appear in reality and drawing them as sexualized inhuman giants with the fantasy watermelon-shaped breasts out to———————->here (I know, because I've done both).  There is a difference between drawings intended to titillate (no pun intended), and drawings where arousal is not the primary intention of the artist (I can't stress this enough because I think all of us who draw have done one or the other at some time or another). To claim that every drawing in the "genre" has the same intention toward the viewer would be disingenuous.

One can draw women with muscle as fetishistic material or with any number of other less controversial subtexts. But how many of us do the latter as opposed to the former?

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I'd like Marvel to try out a woman writer for a change. She doesn't have to be known as a comic book writer, but she must at least like the character. Preferably be North American. Is there any such person?

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You can't really blow up (succeed to levels that might seem outrageous to you and I) in mainstream films without some form of "the disease". She's probably tired of journalists/bloggers/paparazzi bringing up her muscles and her presumed "obsession" for working out all the time, and would like the more level-headed producers (there's one or two) to know that, yes, she's still interested in non-physically-oriented parts, despite being more fit than the average bubble-headed ingenue…

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Looks like one of those sculptures they used to advertise in MuscleMag in the 90's–with a really piss-poor PhotoShop head. Who's is that?

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Suzuki–oh, great demigoddess of lats…she's a favorite of mine too, especially since I saw her briefly interviewed about what people think about her muscularity during a contest on ESPN(?) in the '90's. The gist of what she said, in her surprisingly cherubic (unaffected) voice: "I don't really care."

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Who drew the lady with the pointy ponytails pointing at herself?

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I'm waiting for them to kill the muscle chick on Green Lantern Corps. :-

If you're talking about of Brik, she's been around since the '90's and hasn't amounted to much–so she just might be out of the range of "death ray" radar…

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Aw, COME ON[/i], man! >:( That's just…unfair. 😮

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