musculature is not solely masculine, but if that’s the association for you, it makes sense that you feel a woman with muscles “starts looking like a man”. a similar circular reasoning would be arrived at if you simply considered strength itself to be a masculine trait.
I have not seen either of those.
But you see what I mean, right? A strong female character invariably starts looking like a man. Which is, of course, a cheap shortcut on the part of the writer.
What are feminine expressions of strength?
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
She doesn’t look manly at all. What are you talking about?
spiderwort@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s like they took arnold schwartzenegger’s jaw and transplanted it onto a supermodel/kickboxer.