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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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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm huge and strong, got challenged to arm wrestling somewhat regularly at parties. One dude who made me look like a complete chump was an average sized male cheerleader. Also my boxing sparring partner was a gay dude who was scary fast and I would've never wanted to see competitively.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh yeah same thing applies, gotta have major full body strength and precision muscle memory to be on the bottom of a pyramid or throwing folks 8-9 feet straight up.

Also why skaters are badasses. All three sports involve fighting gravity and the earth without killing yourself. One of my coworkers used to be a professional cheerleader and she works in sales now because she suffered a spinal fracture in a cheerleading accident.