Guys, would it bother you if your girlfriend was physically stronger than you?

[Anonymous]

She can beat you up if she wanted to or move objects that you cannot. Would this bother you?

Yes, it would

No, it wouldn’t

I’m a girl

I’m a girl who thinks the guys who voted ‘no’ are full of shit

[gititboi]

All you boys who are put off by athletic women will be singing a different tune if you're ever incapacitated by an accident, surgery, stroke, or anything else that can incapacitate you.

Look, my wife is NOT a nurturer. That part of her ROM is just corrupted, lol. Ah, the rolleyes and sighs when I sak her to bring me some simple items. (But, to be fair, during lots of recovery time I just want to be left the hell alone, and the non-nurturer thing is fantastic for that.)
But if something needs done around here, she gets it done.

Damsels-in-distress are cute... until there is actual distress.

[Asker]

Being athletic is not the same thing as being able to whoop your man’s ass 😂

[gititboi]

She'll be able to whoop your ass at SOMETHING. Many somethings, in fact.

(If you think you can beat her at literally anything at all, then, you've already lost at self-awareness and general sanity.)

[Asker]

Again, being an athlete is not the same as being able to whoop your man’s ass. You can deadlift 250lbs and still get your ass kicked by someone else.

It’s true lol, you don’t have to like it. I didn’t ask if she would whoop your ass at SOMETHING. I asked would it bother you if she could whoop very specifically YOUR LITERAL ASS 🤷🏽‍♀️

[gititboi]

Nah. She's pretty advanced in Krav Maga, so her odds would be a lot higher than zero.

Women should learn competent self-defense (as should men). Ass whooping is a secondary point; a woman's main goal with a male attacker should be to stun him long enough to allow an escape. But a "yes" to whether she could actually whoop my ass is better than a "no".

We're a power couple. The more strengths we have, either individually or as a unit, the better and stronger we are.
I don't need her to have any specific relative weaknesses/frailties/insecurities to 'feel like a man'... because, oh wait, I AM a man.

[ThisIsMyOpinion]

How can I say this...
If I know that she can kick my ass before we start to date, yes it will be a turn off. I would have a hard time feeling confortable around her.
If we are already dating and she suddenly gets into powerlifting and jujitsu. So she becomes stronger after I know her, trust her and love her. No problem there. I would love her anyway and encourage her to get better and better.

Girls go on dates with guys who more often than not can kill them if they want. No idea how you do it. I couldn't.

[normalice]

Are we talking like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" stronger, or "Tonya Knight" stronger?

basically, I don't care, as long as I like the way she looks. And I don't like the look of men or any of the attributes commonly associated with the look of men.

[Sevenpointfive]

i said no. i've got a mouth on me so it would be great to have some backup lol i dated a girl that knew taekwondo and it was great. we'd always wrestle. she was good!

[CyphorX]

As a 6-foot 5 male who can bench press more than his weight yes I would be deeply concerned if my girlfriend was stronger than me as I would always be wondering if she was "always a girl"

[englisc]

Yeah I would, because you have to be weak as shit as a man for your girl to be stronger than you, even if she's strong for a woman.

[dropkicknj13]

Probably, I dont really think that's possible though lol

[AynonOMouse]

I would like it as long as somehow she still looked small, skinny, petite and wimpy. If she could manage that but be stronger that would be good.

[AynonOMouse]

But even if she is just a small skinny wimpy girl, she can still beat me up if she wants.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

No. My girlfriend is expected to be stronger than me as a strength trainer.

Would it bother you if your boyfriend was stronger than you? If so, that is sad.

[englisc]

If your girlfriend is stronger than you, strength trainer or not, you're actually her girlfriend.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

@englisc
No you're not.

I can say if a woman's boyfriend is stronger than her, then she's his boyfriend.

[englisc]

In that case yeah he is, because that's how it's supposed to be.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

@englisc
No it isn't. If she trains, she should be.

[englisc]

Not really. Even trained women are usually not as strong as the average untrained man. This has been showed in many studies.

In this study they used hand grip strength, since hand grip strength is a good indicator of overall strength. They measure trained and untrained men and women, and they included female elite athletes who played aports that required high levels of grip strength such as judo.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17186303/

The elite female athletes were not even as strong as half of untrained men. Those are women who've recieved elite level training, not even out performing untrained men.

So like I said if your girlfriend, who most likely isn' an elite athlete but even if she was, ia stronger than you you'rw weak.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

But they were close enough at 95% as strong.

My cousin is 12 and can beat me in arm wrestling but it isn't a big deal to others. She's expected to win since I'm 5'1" 107 lbs and she's 5'3" 135 lbs and she plays soccer and trains in a gym.

[englisc]

You mis-read it - all of the women tested were weaker than 95% of men. That includes untrained men. That's nowhere near close.

Shit, you need to start lifting.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

But does it say they are way stronger? Numbers sometimes lie. If 95% of men were stronger than those women, it could be that 72% of that 95% were less than 3% stronger than the women. So we can't know fully.

I have tried. I don't have the strength. I'm small frame and tiny.

[englisc]

It doesn't matter, you're either stronger or weaker. Look at the difference between the elite females and untrained men - the elite females, the strongest women in the world, were weaker than 50% of men who don't train at all.

I don't know what you mean by that - strength is something that comes over time. If you tried and you couldn't lift much weight that was because you've never trained before, everybody starts off weak. You only get stronger over time.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

What if I do all I can and my sister still outlifts me like she can now and she rarely trains?

[englisc]

Unless you're disabled you could easily out-lift your sister after a year of training. It's basic biology, men are naturally much stronger than women especially when trained. Even if you're short/small framed. I'm a short guy and at 16 I was only 5'4" and 112lbs myself. I went from bench pressing 88lbs to 155lbs, deadlift 154lbs to 275lbs and squat 132lb to 245lbs, within a year.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

Well, I am not that concerned with my strength but okay.

[englisc]

I'll never understand men who don't care about being strong, it's one of the main things that makes you a man.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

How so? If I am going to damage by body just to be strong, it's not worth it.

[englisc]

Why would lifting do damage to your body?

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

Straining.

[englisc]

That doesn't cause damage, that's just what happens when you exercise.

[Passinggas]

That sounds more like a question to yourself because women are the hypergamous ones.

[weirdoweirdo]

I'd ask her if she in on steroids. Im a powerlifter for fuck sake... It'd bother me.

[ballweevil]

I won't, and if there is any guy that is, then go to gym and change that

[woooooooo]

She would probably have big arms so yeah it would.