Women's Bodybuilding and Education

Okay, this is a bit meandering but bear with me. I watched a documentary the other night on bodybuilding and they were interviewing Iris Kyle (f), the most successful bodybuilder (of both genders). Women's bodybuilding is fascinating to me because these women worked as hard as the men but because excessive muscle is deemed masculine, they have been essentially penalized. People love women's swimsuit models, but female bodybuilder's are 'gross.' Ms. Olympia was cancelled after 2014. The interviewer was asking Iris if she would be willing to have less muscle to fit into lower categories for competition (again, the 'gross') and she was saying it wouldn't be respectful to herself to limit her progress. She is being punished for working as hard as the guys and is being advised to step back a bit. So anyway, I had this thought that women in academia basically go through the same troubling problem. By committing themselves 100% to a subject, often there is neglect of family, personal connections, with their male partners insecure in their relationship with smart, beautiful, successful, driven women - eventually all the women seem to end up single. It boggles the mind, but I see case after case of beautiful, brilliant female profs who could probably have what society deems happy lives (married with kids) if they backpedaled their research a bit, but why should they have to?

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Whelp

Aug 16, 2018 at 11:05am

I am almost exclusively attracted to brilliant women.

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Wrong intersection

Aug 16, 2018 at 11:09am

" their male partners insecure in their relationship with smart, beautiful, successful, driven women - eventually all the women seem to end up single. "
Nice try at the covert misandry.
But the simple truth is that women almost never marry a guy that makes less than them-that's the problem.
In divorce,only 2% of women end up paying out after a split.
You can say" well that's because women get the kid" but the fact is that 33% of relationships end without any kids.
A woman who makes $30k,wants a guy that makes $50k. A nurse making $80k wants a guy making $100k,and will almost never marry a guy that makes $40k.
You can deny it all you want,but the stats don't lie.

Hi OP

Aug 16, 2018 at 11:44am

This is a ridiculous post on so many levels. So many.

Listen...

Aug 16, 2018 at 12:05pm

Women with huge bulging muscles are grotesque and it’s incredibly unattractive to the vast majority of men. Christ - a guy with huge muscles that spends his spare time grunting at the gym, pumped full of roids, is a huge turn off to most women. Why would it not be even more so for men’s attraction to roided women!?

If there was a competition wherein men lost weight, slimmed right down and became incredibly slim, like a size 2 equivalent... stick men. Exactly how many women would go “ooooo that’s sexy! I just love a beautiful 6’-2” man weighing in at 115 lbs!” Let’s be real, and say it as it is - not many! I mean really, do you have girlfriends who constantly go on about wanting to find a rake thin guy. No. You don’t.

So why is it so incredibly hard to imagine men finding muscular women unattractive? Why OP? Guess what, it’s not hard at all. It’s how we are wired (except you and a few other weirdos) - to find desirable, those physical traits that are the opposite to our own... with some variation.

Your whole post is simplistic and antagonistic. Go away Mysandrist.

Doesn't add up

Aug 16, 2018 at 12:26pm

Horrible comparison.

Women are career driven choose not to have families because "THeY" want to focus on their careers. It's not that they are expected to work less to have a family, it's that they choose to bypass a family for the sake of their careers.

And guess what, now that more and more women are focusing on their careers instead of families, men are slowly starting to find themselves in the same situation , having to make the same decisions.

This, on top of everything everyone else above commented, you are wrong on so many levels

@Listen

Aug 16, 2018 at 12:51pm

Because women having standards and preferences is OK.
Men having standards and preferences is sexist and misognynistic.
Note the difference

OP

Aug 16, 2018 at 2:05pm

I'm male. I choose to respect female bodybuilders for their dedication, and not only 'respect' women (and their pursuits) if they turn me on. But clearly that's just me. Not that I'm perfect. I once broke up with a woman because she was smarter than me. Definitely some regrets about that. I think men are threatened by women who are smarter, richer, or stronger than them. It seems clear enough by the defensive posting above.

Anonymous

Aug 16, 2018 at 3:46pm

They don't "have to"...

They do however live in reality which dictates that a lot of these uber-women end up alone.

@OP

Aug 16, 2018 at 6:26pm

" It seems clear enough by the defensive posting above."

Pointing out misogyny= a right and proper thing to do.
Pointing out misandry= a defensive posting,and that's wrong,according to you. Better to just leave it be,then the whole narrative in pop culture is that men are misogynists,amiright?

Um...

Aug 19, 2018 at 6:32am

For the record, I think BOTH male and female bodybuilders are smoking hot!!! People always look better with muscle.

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