• Hyperreality@kbin.social
    40·
    1 year ago

    Obviously, she’s attractive. I’ll let someone else posts tired Futurama memes.

    But I’m glad more women are getting into weightlifting and no longer believe the myth about it making you look masculine.

    There was (and still is) a taboo around it, but I think it would do a world of good to a lot of women. Not only does it make you look more attractive, but feeling stronger can be very empowering, and I suspect help you feel safer and more confident.

    Personally, I’ve found it’s great for keeping weight off and tackling mental health issues too. My life may not always go as planned, but I keep lifting, and I keep making (admittedly) slow progress. And when it comes time to lift the washing machine, I no longer have issues.

    • Chriszz@lemmy.world
      72·
      1 year ago

      no longer believe the myth about it making you look masculine.

      It depends on how far you go with it.

      It’s definitely possible to make you look masculine. But the average woman lifting weights is probably never going to reach that point. It’ll just enhance their physique.

      • Hyperreality@kbin.social
        61·
        1 year ago

        Buettner has won a gold medal in powerlifting. If she hasn’t become masculine, it’s near impossible an amateur will either.

        Let’s be real, women who do become more masculine looking, are almost certainly taking steroids, not just lifting weights.

      • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
        42·
        1 year ago

        If a man thinks a woman looks more masculine than them, than that’s either a sign to redefine masculinity or lift more.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    30·
    1 year ago

    The way Wonder woman in the movies should have been. A jacked up Amazon who has trained to fight her whole life, not skinny, supermodel, 0oz of muscle gal Gadot.

    • Moohamin12@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yeah but where are you gonna find actresses that also do body building.

      Or willing to get roided up.

            • Cryptik@reddthat.com
              4·
              1 year ago

              I know. I was so disappointed to see Gina falling down the Kevin Sorbo rabbit-hole. Sorbo, at least, has multiple strokes, which have altered his personality, but for her, that seemed to be an un-forced error.

              • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                I liked having a strong woman lead, we don’t have enough of those.

                Just shut up, that’s all you have to do, don’t say “Liberal Jews are coming to steal your kids adrenal glands!!!”, don’t say “We need to gas all conservatives!!!”, just STFU. Same rules as a normal job.

                You want to do that shit in your private life, keep it quiet, hell even Mel Gibson gets work, and everybody loves Kelsey Grammer still.

      • Im_old@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        There was Natalie Portman in thor love and thunder. But yes, I think they would incur in the wrath of guys with fragile masculinity that can’t see a woman with more muscles than them

  • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
    191·
    1 year ago

    Jess is awesome! She’s a type 1 diabetic (you can just barely make out the Libre CGM sensor on the bottom of her left tricep). She serves as an incredible inspiration to other type 1 fitness nerds like myself.

  • Im_old@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m going to be a bit of an asshole here. With the amount of effort that she obviously put to attain that level of physical preparation (which is impressive for my couch potato standards), I’m a bit miffed that the costume itself is a bit meh. Still, she is a better wonder woman in that than I’ll ever be even with the original costume and a team to set me up!

    • cvozbosher@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, she might need someone to work on a costume for her. As I understand it (as just an instagram follower) cosplay isn’t something she does a ton of. It seems like mostly cool Halloween costumes.

      There’s a couple cool youtube videos of bodybuilder, James Hollingshead, cosplaying as Kratos at comicon. He gets professionally done up and it looks like a lot of fun (https://youtu.be/lrGU77uf4Ic)

      It’d be a lot of fun to see Jessica professionally done up as an action heroine at a comicon. She could be a real life she-hulk or wonder woman.