Log in | Register
Forum > Site Discussion > Thread

Bodybuilder label

hurricane18
Oct 13, 2017 - permalink
Every now and again, I go on small missions to every new photo that clearly shows a large, muscular women, I'll tag bodybuilder. My question- Is there a reason people don't tag what type of muscularity a woman is? Is it the stigma that comes with the tag? Is it they don't want to put that woman in a box? Or maybe the gap is too great between fitness and bodybuilder and some fall in between?
 I get that sometimes some women straddle the line  of fitness and bodybuilder, and no tag is better. But I was wondering if there was any reasoning. 

Thanks,
-Hurricane
Nov 01, 2017 - permalink
There's a lot of women who compete in the "physique" and other intermediate categories nowadays.  I tend to reserve the "bodybuilder" tag for women who actually compete as such or who are on the obviously large and bulky side, but others may feel differently.  Someone like Paige Sandgren is a good example, I couldn't blame anyone for falling on either side of whether the tag is warranted, especially depending on the exact pic.  The categories have also changed over the years (some classic early female bodybuilders look more like just muscular fitness competitors nowadays), and a fair amount of former female bodybuilders have slimmed down to the newer physique categories, to make things more confusing.
wihs2006
Nov 08, 2017 - permalink
There's a lot of women who compete in the "physique" and other intermediate categories nowadays.  I tend to reserve the "bodybuilder" tag for women who actually compete as such or who are on the obviously large and bulky side, but others may feel differently.  Someone like Paige Sandgren is a good example, I couldn't blame anyone for falling on either side of whether the tag is warranted, especially depending on the exact pic.  The categories have also changed over the years (some classic early female bodybuilders look more like just muscular fitness competitors nowadays), and a fair amount of former female bodybuilders have slimmed down to the newer physique categories, to make things more confusing.
^ this, I especially agree with Chipperpip on the labels. Also, if we use the word bodybuilder literally every woman on this website is a 'bodybuilder'.
Thread locked by cgsweat.
« first < prev Page 1 of 1 next > last »