The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding
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The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding
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Re: The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding
#2Every display sport has a consensus aesthetic that is being optimized for.
Don’t expect to be judged well if you’re showing parkour steez at a gymnastics competition.
It doesn’t mean the sport is wrong, it just maybe means you should pioneer an alternative sport or category to suit your target aesthetic.
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#3Slightly off topic but I find that green website frame to be incredibly distracting. Aren’t mobile phone screens small enough with adding extra padding around the inside? And the highlighting that unused space is a just bizarre to me.
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#4Slightly off topic but I find that green website frame to be incredibly distracting. Aren’t mobile phone screens small enough with adding extra padding around the inside? And the highlighting that unused space is a just bizarre to me.
That and giant subscribe here that takes up half the phone screen.
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#5Slightly off topic but I find that green website frame to be incredibly distracting. Aren’t mobile phone screens small enough with adding extra padding around the inside? And the highlighting that unused space is a just bizarre to me.
The design of The Believer physical magazine is not exactly purely functional either.
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#6Slightly off topic but I find that green website frame to be incredibly distracting. Aren’t mobile phone screens small enough with adding extra padding around the inside? And the highlighting that unused space is a just bizarre to me.
The default wordpress theme from a couple of years had a similar frame like that as well but then in black if I remember correctly...
Re: The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding
#7Every display sport has a consensus aesthetic that is being optimized for. Don’t expect to be judged well if you’re showing parkour steez at a gymnastics competition. It doesn’t mean the sport is wrong, it just maybe means you should pioneer an alternative sport or category to suit your target aesthetic.
Well, in case of bodybuilding you need very hefty dose of hormones to even start looking like low level competitors. The bodybuilding physique isn't good for any particular activity. It's neither useful nor healthy. It's all organized so you need to grow yourself like cattle (bodybuilders even take steroids designed for making cattle killed for meat muscular). This is already terrible enough for men but for women it's way worse as their bodies are even less equipped to cope with huge artificial levels of male sex hormones and their derivatives.
I think it is a terrible sport. It's not only terrible for the competitors but also for the culture as a whole as normalizing steroid physique hurts normal people. It's not only bodybuilding by the way. Fitness magazines and Hollywood actors take most of the blame to be sure.
Re: The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding
#8Every display sport has a consensus aesthetic that is being optimized for. Don’t expect to be judged well if you’re showing parkour steez at a gymnastics competition. It doesn’t mean the sport is wrong, it just maybe means you should pioneer an alternative sport or category to suit your target aesthetic.
Well, in case of bodybuilding you need very hefty dose of hormones to even start looking like low level competitors. The bodybuilding physique isn't good for any particular activity. It's neither useful nor healthy. It's all organized so you need to grow yourself like cattle (bodybuilders even take steroids designed for making cattle killed for meat muscular). This is already terrible enough for men but for women it'…
Truly.
I do not think most people are aware of prolific steroid usage is... It mostly boils down to people pumping themselves full of steroids up until a week or so before the competition so they test clean. With almost zero body fat, most drugs are metabolized and removed from the body really quickly.
It was pretty depressing to realize that body-building is totally gamed and drug based. Not because I was ever into it, I think it's corny, it's just a real disservice to the ideal of healthy living.
Re: The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding
#9Every display sport has a consensus aesthetic that is being optimized for. Don’t expect to be judged well if you’re showing parkour steez at a gymnastics competition. It doesn’t mean the sport is wrong, it just maybe means you should pioneer an alternative sport or category to suit your target aesthetic.
Well, in case of bodybuilding you need very hefty dose of hormones to even start looking like low level competitors. The bodybuilding physique isn't good for any particular activity. It's neither useful nor healthy. It's all organized so you need to grow yourself like cattle (bodybuilders even take steroids designed for making cattle killed for meat muscular). This is already terrible enough for men but for women it'…
I will say that strongman is interesting. It eliminates the cutting weight aspect of bodybuilding at least, though admittedly retains the steroid abuse aspect. I think it fundamentally answers an interesting question though in a way that bodybuilding maybe doesn't, namely: What is the absolute limit of strength that the human body is capable of?
Re: The Feminine Physique: On Women's Bodybuilding
#10Slightly off topic but I find that green website frame to be incredibly distracting. Aren’t mobile phone screens small enough with adding extra padding around the inside? And the highlighting that unused space is a just bizarre to me.
Quite true; and also the title is so big it's cut like this on my screen:
THE FEMININ E PHYSIQU E
But then I switched to Firefox's focus mode and everything was better again.