mascular

[Sherri]

Get out your pencils and dictionaries, folks. We've got a new word.

 

I overheard it in the locker room at the gym, when a gaggle of girly tweens were gossipping about a classmate who apparently works out a lot. They said she had "really mascular arms." Judging by their tone, it was not a compliment.

 

 

Should have seen the embarrassed silence that came over them when I walked around the corner.

 

 

 

OMG, do I have mascular arms???

 

 

 

 

[catbirdseat]

Sherri you are a "studette" when it comes to arm muscles.

[archenemy]

Sherri,

You have arms that would look better if they were wrapped around me.

 

 

(I vowed to work on my originality for the pick up lines thread. I'm not sure if this sounds very original...I have some room for improvement)

[Sherri]

Sherri,

You have arms that would look better if they were wrapped around me.

 

 

Nice work. I like it.

 

 

And I agree.

[G-spotter]

Is mascular a deliberate portmanteau of masculine and muscular or were they just stoned?

[archenemy]

Don't try that tired old line on her. She's mine.

[Sherri]

Is mascular a deliberate portmanteau of masculine and muscular or were they just stoned?

 

Young and impressionable, perhaps, but not stoned. The thing that interested me most about their unintentional coinage of this term was the way they were using it inferred that muscularity is a masculine trait which is inappropriate for a woman to exhibit. I highly doubt their classmate was ripped, so I can't help but wonder what it was about a girl having an athletic appearance that incited them to badmouth her efforts to take care of herself.

 

She didn't fit into the mold of what a "girl" was supposed to look like?

 

Personally, I hope that strong girl keeps working hard, and when she's out doing triathalons and sports events long after those other girls can climb a flight of stairs without getting winded, I hope she runs into them signing up for some fluff fitness class at the gym and laughs at what their arms look like now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[counterfeitfake]

Teenage girls LIVE to talk shit about other teenage girls. You shoulda embarassed her in front of her friends for using a word that doesn't exist.

[high_on_rock]

Rather than listen to the words they use, listen to the motivation behind the statement. They were just in a gym with someone who made them look bad. They can either admit failure, or put her down. The comment was not about her muscles, it was about their lack thereof.

 

While we are on the subject, don't you just hate those jerks who climb the hard routes. Darn anti-fat jerks.

[lizard_brain]

Is mascular a deliberate portmanteau of masculine and muscular or were they just stoned?

 

Young and impressionable, perhaps, but not stoned. The thing that interested me most about their unintentional coinage of this term was the way they were using it inferred that muscularity is a masculine trait which is inappropriate for a woman to exhibit. I highly doubt their classmate was ripped, so I can't help but wonder what it was about a girl having an athletic appearance that incited them to badmouth her efforts to take care of herself.

 

She didn't fit into the mold of what a "girl" was supposed to look like?

 

Personally, I hope that strong girl keeps working hard, and when she's out doing triathalons and sports events long after those other girls can climb a flight of stairs without getting winded, I hope she runs into them signing up for some fluff fitness class at the gym and laughs at what their arms look like now.

 

 

Jealous, they were.

 

 

[G-spotter]

The bad thing about making fun of a girl with muscles is that she could beat them up for doing that.

[gertlush]

In a group I was in the other week one of the guys told his girlfriend she had sturdy legs, intending it as a compliment. She was not amused.

[archenemy]

Is mascular a deliberate portmanteau of masculine and muscular or were they just stoned?

 

Young and impressionable, perhaps, but not stoned. The thing that interested me most about their unintentional coinage of this term was the way they were using it inferred that muscularity is a masculine trait which is inappropriate for a woman to exhibit. I highly doubt their classmate was ripped, so I can't help but wonder what it was about a girl having an athletic appearance that incited them to badmouth her efforts to take care of herself.

 

She didn't fit into the mold of what a "girl" was supposed to look like?

 

Personally, I hope that strong girl keeps working hard, and when she's out doing triathalons and sports events long after those other girls can climb a flight of stairs without getting winded, I hope she runs into them signing up for some fluff fitness class at the gym and laughs at what their arms look like now.

 

 

 

 

 

I hope she runs into them today.

And beats the shit out of them.

[Sherri]

That was one of my thoughts, too, Arch.

 

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with being soft, pretty, delicate, and all that, if that's your thing. But it's not everyone's ideal and it's not every woman's inherent identity. Femme, butch, jock, lipstick, tomboy, whatever...it's all good, long as you're being real. And willing to accept that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.

 

It bothered me to see them attempt to quash that little girl's potential. But, as has been pointed out, she'll probably come out on top.

 

 

 

[lizard_brain]

...she'll probably come out on top.

 

...so to speak...

 

[G-spotter]

Like Martina Navritalova?

[archenemy]

Sad thing is that those other poor girls will be the ones who go to the gym, get a trainer, and then say they want to lift to firm up but don't want to get "big arms".

 

Phhtt. As if all they had to do is lift their puny little five pound dumb bells and suddenly they'll look like Cory Everson. I hate those bitches. It totally dismisses all the work a lifter does. It keeps feeding this ridiculous belief that men are all the same and all want their women to have thin arms. It "excuses" them from doing any real work in the gym for fear of actually getting some muscle. And it denies the beauty of musculature. Or masculature--whichever turns you on.

[Sherri]

Like Martina Navritalova?

 

Muscularity and sexual orientation are two different things. Or should be. And I don't think Martina is a top. But she is an amazing athlete, if that was your point.

Edited July 19, 2007 by Sherri

[archenemy]

Amazing how people have a tough time seperating that, isn't it?

[Sherri]

Exactly.

[G-spotter]

femsculature?

 

[archenemy]

more like victor ?valejo? is what I am thinking. You know, the guy who had a lot of his work in Heavy Metal and whatnot. Who remembers that dude's name? I loved his work (back in my fevered comic book phase)

 

[i_like_sun]

Whats wrong with this?

 

 

[high_on_rock]

While I would always prefer a woman built like Sherri-darlin, I say that without saying that a woman would have to look like that to be acceptable. We are all built/shaped differently.

[Sherri]

Amen, brother.

 

(And thanks. You're a sweetie! )