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Sitting in a pub having a pint over a bowl of their kick ass chili watching Womens Gymnastics and this thought occurred to me. (hexbear.net)
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When I was young (early nineties) I remember among all the other internalized queerphobia one thing even then I found very silly:

Mens Gymnastics (especially at lower levels) was always made the butt of jokes by toxic masculinity but my sister got to a point where was getting so jacked she could definitely kick my ass and she was 4 years younger and I was definitely pretty athletic from skateboarding.

Male gymnasts could very easily kick average chuds ass savagely.

TL;DR AGAB all gymnasts are Badasses. Terrifying even, if you think about it.

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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 6 points 21 hours ago

I think I remember that. It was the pure strength sports that stood out, like there's no upside to keeping your weight down as a powerlifter, and not bothering has the huge upside of always having sufficient caloric intake to build strength, so they were both big (muscular) and big (just... Big). No visible muscle definition (while still obviously having very visibly big muscles) but still obviously the physically strongest people present. You aren't telling me they aren't "fit".