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I'm from an age before high schools even had organized sports for females. The ones at my school, if interested, joined the Girls Athletic Association, which offered a few intramural sports. But I certainly knew women could be muscular because I lived in a blue-collar area where many worked in factories. Starting in the mid-1960s, plants started hiring women in large numbers for the first time since WWII. I think it was because of a manpower shortage caused by the draft and Vietnam, not social pressures.
The foremen often resented having women around, so they assigned them to the toughest, most physically demanding jobs in hopes that they would quit. This attitude continued into the '70s. When my wife-to-be was hired at Massey-Ferguson, her job was picking up and attaching 55-pound components to tractors. She hated it, but it really built up her already great arms. Unfortunately, she quit after 9 months when she threw out her back.
I also had several aunts who were farmers, and they all were very muscular from the hard work. Meanwhile, it was unthinkable that women would ever be interested in weightlifting. Seeing a woman with a barbell back then was as rare as seeing a duck in the desert.
Gen Z, found this website within first week of my awakening. Been an addict since.
Cool! What was your awakening?
I clicked Gen X, but I was born in 79 which by most accounts makes me an "Xennial," a hybrid of Gen X and Millennials. We didn't really experience early life in the 70's or early 80's, which is reflected in the cynicism of many Gen Xers, so we share more of the fundamental optimism of elder Millennials, but are old enough to distinctly remember life before the internet and cell phones, and came of age before 9/11 and regular school shootings were a thing, which particularly characterized the youths of especially the mid-to-latter Millennials. For most of us, the first real significant historic event we remember was the Challenger explosion.
I clicked Gen X, but I was born in 79 which by most accounts makes me an "Xennial," a hybrid of Gen X and Millennials.
Yeah, I think it would have been better if they had overlapped the ranges. Like have Millennial 1978-2000, Gen X 1962-1982, Gen Z 1996-2014. If you're born in the overlapped years then you can go with either. Because no generation instantly switches over from one year to the next, it's always a gradual shift.
Using the median age of each group, I calculated the average age of the userbase here.
Median ages:
So I just added up these ages (87.5 x 1) + (69 x 25) + ... and divided by the total number of votes (318). The average site user is therefore 35 years old.
Gen X, born in 1969. I bought my first BB magazine when I was 13 or 14. It was the time of Teagan Clive, Debbie Poston. I think Miss O. was Cory Everson
I was born in 69 too can you remember the title of the first bodybuilding magazine you bought for me it might have been
muscle training illustrated
Millennial (born early 90s). Honestly, my first introduction to muscle girls was those TV ads for the Bowflex workout machine. Then I saw Supersize She on TLC and my life changed. Seriously, it was like a hit of heroin... blew my mind. Been using this site since it started, but only made an account recently.
That along side all the other infomercials like Ab Lounge, P90X, and Insanity. I still remember the Date my Mom spring break edition on MTV that had Brenda Smith in it. The new generations have it so easy with social media now
infomercials like Ab Lounge, P90X, and Insanity.
Totally. I was a weird little dude and had a stash of those saved to my TiVo lol.
Older end of millennial (1983). I think the first time i saw a muscular woman was on a tv show i can’t remember the name of where jacked men and women beat the shit out of normies. Then of course Cory Everson and Kiana tom came along and espn would occasionally show bodybuilding contests. I can still remember the struggle of having to be lucky to catch that stuff on tv.
Gen Z here, it's no surprise I ended up on this site.
Vanessa from Virtua Fighter 4 left a lasting impression on me.
the true GenXer test would be if you know what "alt.amazon-women.admirers" is
Oh, yeah! Usenet News Group started by Jim Woodward for lovers of Tall Women but it morphed into strong and muscular women. :)
Gen X. Started FBB lovin' in the Magazine Years, more obsessed than ever now!