Isabelle Thorpe and Kate Shortman want to end the stigma against muscular women.
Posted on 07/19/2021 9:19:38 PM PDT by Yossarian
Two U.K. Olympians are hoping to spread the message that there is no correct definition of a “feminine body.”
Artistic swimmers Kate Shortman, 19, and Isabelle Thorpe, 20, did a lingerie photoshoot for Bluebella’s #BeStrongBeBeautiful campaign to embrace their muscular bodies and help promote women in sports.
For the underwater photoshoot, the duo showed off their muscles as they held a Union Jack.
“It’s utterly unfair that society’s expectations for boys are to have this perfect image of health by going to the gym, lifting weights, and looking really muscular and strong, and yet for girls, it’s the opposite — you should be stick-thin and with delicate feminine features,” Shortman said in a release.
“It’s unhealthy for young girls to see this and think, ‘I have to restrict what they eat and count calories.’ It’s unhealthy mentally and physically to think that.”
Isabelle Thorpe and Kate Shortman were often criticized because of their muscular bodies.
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The perception of an “ideal body” has also harmed Shortman and Thorpe. Shortman discussed how over their decade of preparation for the Summer Games, they were ridiculed about having “big shoulders, small boobs and small bums” and told to cover up at public swimming pools, even while wearing one-piece bathing suits.
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“We have to change the perception that the strong female form is not ‘feminine.’ “The idea that strength and femininity do not go together is a really damaging perception for keeping women in sport but also more broadly.”
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Protest this every day. I stand behind you 100%
Laz, will you join in supporting this critical protest that these ladies are so very, very, protesting?
They just look svelt, much like most of the girlz/wymyn of my HS in the 60s.
Ummm, who exactly is body-shaming two young, fit, women like these?
More nonsense virtue-signaling and manufactured victimhood.
English mermaids. Works for me. Women who like being women.
Yes it takes considerable courage to pose your perfect bodies to advance the cause of “body shaming bad.”
So brave!!
they are NOT “muscular women”
the ones taking testosterone and are roid ragers are “muscular women” with bodybuilder bodies
these women are athletic women
there is a huge difference
because athletic women are still feminine looking
Then Beavis turned to Butthead and asked:
“Hey Man, like, what happened to their t*ts?
oh thats just awful...any more pics?
Fat, ugly, lesbian, leftists hate beautiful, thin women. Thin females are the new white racists. Ya gotta be woke and shop at Victoria’s Secret now with the fat and transgendered folks, while reading Sports Illustrated with the first man on the cover in a bikini.
They just appear to be trim.
Hey, there’s also standing to the front or either side!
Look at them, they’re hideous!
Muscular alpha males have no problem with alpha females. These two women are absolutely perfect right then left would be the order of the day. Body shamed by “boys” sounds like cucks being cucks to me. Either way stunning good looks ladies.
Nobody cares. Stfu and swim.
Yes, and while they're at it, they should also try to end the stigma of being forced to wear lingerie!
Regards,
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