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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“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.”
Sure. Eat whatever you want and be 900 pounds. Yeah!
Exactly. This type of nonsense diminishes real victims.
They’re auditioning for a Subway commercial. They’re not feminists. They’re capitalists. Fame is fleeting.
To be honest (and to our disappointment), they don't appear to be showing any trim.
And I looked real hard!
Regards,
100% bogus issue, PR stunt.
Well... The comic industry decided that muscular women must be built like men ( She-Hulk recent issues) and in video games they have been taking male game models and putting female heads on them ( Last of us part 2 influenced by Anita Sarkeesian etc)
Same.
Thought it was going to be like Abby from Last of us 2.
Or “it’s ma’am” type.
This will not please the “get her a cheeseburger” chubbo lovers.
They don’t look particularly ‘muscular’.
and told to cover up at public swimming pools, even while wearing one-piece bathing suits.
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Manufactured relevance. In 40 years they might be wrinkled, or botox faced and looking like a pear. They oughta learn how to deal with that. No one will be beauty shaming them. They will be happy to have any semblance of youthful fitness as they do now. If they eat only 10 more calores per day than they need...in 40 years they will weigh 40 lbs more.
I guess 15 minutes is now 15 days.
P.S...the olympics is dead. Except for the paricipants and families of such and the profiteers. I would much rather work on my own health than watch that hyped up crapola.
Only fat women would body shame these two beautiful ladies.
Maybe the piece was as large as a single sheet of toilet paper.
“Dibs” on the lifeguard chair !
Nothing protests body shaming like two perfectly fit women in lingerie.
Bring on the protests!!!
Not guilty!!!
“I stand behind you 100%”
Indeed.
Whoever’s been shaming these two is a total nitwit.
😂😂😂
I have noticed that in watching what little TV I do nowadays, they seem to want to rape my eyeballs with some fat sucker in underwear. What the...? There is beauty... and then there is “ugh!” THAT will NEVER change, NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO!
The way they talk, you expect them to look like East German Olympic weight lifters. This was the polar opposite of calling out body shamers. It pretty much WAS body shaming. Well done, ladies.
That’s Jim Carey’s best work.
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