Are women who work out fake and superficial?

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^No one is born looking like that. No one naturally has a body like any of those women. They're clearly working out for aesthetics.

It's one thing to eat healthy and exercise for an hour a day, but another to go out of your way to put such stress on your body.

But these women are real, comfortable with themselves and are not trying to morph their bodies into something they aren't. This is how the average woman in the US looks:

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How come we don't condemn women who work out to the point of losing their natural bodies and femininity?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

People aren't naturally overweight though. What about the women who don't work out at all, and are skinny anyway? Wouldn't they be the ones that are the more natural ones? The ones who don't diet at all.

For me, I do work out (although lately not as much as I should be) because I do want to stay thin. If that means I am superficial and fake, then so be it. In the summers, I spend most of my time hiking because I love it. I want to fix my stomach though. I had a giant ovarian cyst for three years (I thought I was just fat) I ended up looking about six months pregnant by the time I found out it was a cyst and not fat. Which explained a lot since I wasn't fat anywhere else except my stomach. Anyway, it was huge and it stretched my stomach out a lot because I had it for so long. They removed it in April (they drained 6.5 liters of fluid from me) and my stomach is kind of funny looking now. I want to do ab work outs to tighten it a bit. I don't care if it looks like the girls in the tumblr you showed, just as long as it isn't stretched like it is. It's like it's extra skin or something.

It's the reason why I work out so much, and I don't care if people see me as fake because of that. I just feel incredibly insecure and I don't even want to date. I feel like guys won't like it.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

That isn't putting stress on your body. To become that strong and defined you have to be extremely careful and work hard but slowly and delicately. In fact most of those women are just in really good shape, nothing unusual about it. And that whole "real women have curves" thing is starting to get on my nerves. I love the support of different and bigger body types, it's amazing because of what the media puts out, and we need to actively combat that. However skinny women are also "real women" and so are really muscular women and so are every single woman. You don't need curves or extra weight or lots of muscles or just skin and bones to be a "real woman" you just need to be a woman.

And that's not the average woman in America, the average American woman is 5'3 and 166 pounds, much much smaller than those pictures. But regardless our "natural bodies" are probably closer to those first women. Before fast food and homes and all that we had to hunt and gather and live off very little while being constantly active. Our ancestors were much more fit that we are today. ANd if you eat healthy and work out you'll notice the more in-shape you get the better you feel, your body wants to be fit.

vmw2008 · Accepted Answer

I think some women who work out may be fake and superficial, but I don't believe someone is fake BECAUSE they choose to work out. Working out is for a lot more than just looks. It keeps your body working properly, keeps you alive longer, makes it easier to live an active lifestyle, and is even for maintaining a happy mood.

The good looks are an awesome added benefit, and it makes sense too. Typically, the looks and characteristics we consider "attractive" are those of a healthy person. So it makes sense that someone with a very healthy body, would look more attractive than a person with an unhealthy body.

Those "average women" may be very real according to US standards, but most are NOT comfortable with themselves, and would love to morph their bodies. Not into something they aren't, but into their natural form. Nobody is naturally supposed to be obese. If that were true, there wouldn't be thousands of health conditions associated with obesity. I am a proponent of women being happy no matter their size as there is no benefit to depression and worrying, but to say that obesity is more natural is just simply untrue.

Hamburgers · Accepted Answer

Yes.

It's no different for males who aren't using this additional strength and mass for a specific purpose.

Wearing a tight shirt to show off my bulging biceps is no different than that son of a millionaire on your college campus who wears Armani everything to lecture whilst driving his Mercedes Mclaren.

If you dislike someone because they are unattractive, you are holding others to superficial standards.

If you dislike yourself because you are unattractive, you are holding yourself to superficial standards.

I think it is more productive to admit humans are superficial creatures.

Tarvold · Accepted Answer

You're too quick to judge... again. I've dated plenty of women who qualify for that tumblr who I know for sure doesn't work out more than once a week, and they weren't fake and superficial people either.

If big women are demanding the world to see their inner beauty and not judge them by their size, then it's only fair that they extend the same courtesy to skinny/fit women.

ArsCarpeDiem · Answer

I don't see how they're "fake." Working out doesn't turn you into plastic. It just reduces the amount of fat on your body. And wearing makeup and flattering clothes could be considered morphing your body into something it's not, but people don't bitch about that.

Those crossfit women work hard to look the way they do. And they shouldn't be belittled just because their bodies get more attention than the "curvy" set.

I'm proud of my body because I've worked hard for it. And I think it's beautiful. If curvy women think their bodies are beautiful, that's great. But they need to stop being so condescending and rude.

livi24 · Answer

Why would they be considered fake or superficial for doing something that is 100% natural?

Also, society doesn't condemn them AS MUCH as overweight women because they are healthier and at less risk for weight related health complications. And I would just like to point out I am also a real woman who is comfortable with herself and I don't look anything like the women in your pictures who you claim are the only women who are real and true to themselves. You can't put labels on people for what they look like because a large percentage of the time, you are most likely incorrect. Remember the saying, "don't judge a book by it's cover"?

Turtleluv · Answer

Even if those women are the average they are not healthy. Being overly muscular isn't healthy either. You need to find the balance in between.

I'm not saying women should look like Barbie but that much body fat has serious health risks. My mom was 300 at one point in her life. She caused permanent damage to her body and I didn't matter later that she lost the weight. Her weight did kill her even though it was after she got healthy.

Most of us sit on our ass at work and home. Working out for an hour a day isn't going to make you muscular and it will help you stay healthy.

isthisthingon · Answer

it is because there are so many fat women and men in the US. I know I'm painting a broad brush for this but I guess where I live I see this a lot. there are children and the company I used to work for who had a hard time breathing just to talk to me. it is sad. unfortunately I think  morewomen are pressured more than man to look a certain way. But I think that it is rare in America for women to care about their bodies so much to over workout.  End then you have fat men and women claiming they are losing weight to their friends and families and online yet they still look the same 6 months later.

xHoneyxBeex · Answer

Of course not, that's ridiculous. People are not "naturally" born overweight either, it depends on that person's lifestyle choices. People who condemn women who are trying to work out and be fit are likely just jealous or insecure of their own body. There's nothing wrong with working out.

kheserthorpe · Answer

Well it's real. Is it superficial? For some. So what?

I will mention for others it's not. Those women are certainly hotter then average, and some men would consider them ideal. But they are probably stronger looking then the standard media attractive woman look. I would guess women interested purely in aesthetics are likely to ... Well left less.

I'd guess most of those women want to look good, but also want to feel strong and capable.

Dragonblood21 · Answer

You have a desire to condemn someone because they are doing something they want to, that is hurting no one else, not even themselves? That sounds pretty bitter of you. And no that isn't putting "such stress on your body". Unless they are doing it excessively, which is not at all needed to achieve their figure, then what they are doing is beneficial to themselves.

05Jueey · Answer

Yeah I think self-love is not praised like it should be. I wouldn't say overweight girls necessarily just love themselves more and are less superficial. Thin girls can be more genuine and less superficial too, just like overweight girls can be superficial

Cromartie · Answer

I don't think it's wrong for anyone to choose to pursue how they want their bodies to look.

I don't think femininity is reliant on a person's physical fitness and it definitely isn't reliant on the lack of physical fitness a person has.

cheesesteak7 · Answer

some of those women in that first link I'm sure work out for functional purposes - i.e. competitions, their profession, personal challenges, etc.

Koldhearted · Answer

Because that would be sexist and just go politically incorrect to condemn a woman for working out.  Plus, do you really want to feel the wrath of all the feminists?

DianaWest · Answer

why do you care for? it's their life. if they want to look good, why does it concern you? i suppose women should weigh 200 pounds, wear bags and running shoes so as to not be deemed "superficial."

washize · Answer

ugh so many damaged people. No hope for humanity. None.

Anonymous · Answer

The three links you gave at the bottom, they don't look average to me, they look semi obese to me.

Anonymous · Answer

No. Are women who don't work out lazy, careless, & unhealthy?

Anonymous · Answer

I think this one is my fave:

Anonymous · Answer

In my eyes at least your definition of the average woman is a lot different.  I think most women are not that overweight, but we just notice the bigger people more...

Anonymous · Answer

I'm sure some are but then again lots of fat girls are full of themselves and call themselves real girls

Tyliah · Answer

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