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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Females have it easy!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.225210.7573@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:52:10 GMT
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- In article <JMD.92Dec30173445@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Dec30.193759.2025@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >
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- [Description of Cory Everson the bodybuilder deleted.]
-
- > Actually, I often find distinctive physical characteristics, ones that make
- > someone look different from the rest of the crowd, to be at least mildly
- > appealing. Plus, if you spend much time with someone who has a characteristic
- > that originally struck you as unappealing, you might be surprised at how
- > quickly it can become appealing.
- >
- >I agree: different is interesting. I just (personally) find body
- >building of this sort to be grotesque. I keep thinking that something
- >is gonna burst and leave blood and guts all over the place. It seems
- >unhealthy to me. After all, it is well known to medecine that women
- >with almost no body fat tend to stop ovulating -- they become sterile.
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- Actually, they just suspend ovulation until their bodyfat goes up--it's
- a temporary condition and isn't confined to bodybuilders (it's fairly
- common among competitive runners, for example); I have not heard of any
- permanent effects.
-
- You might want to page through a copy of "Muscle and Fitness" sometime--
- pictures of Cory are in just about every issue. She's cute and doesn't
- look at all like she's about to rupture. Keep in mind also that
- bodybuilders will have a lower bodyfat percentage right around a contest
- than they will have the rest of the year and that they "pump up" before
- getting on that stage. (And, with posing, they stay pumped up--anybody
- who doesn't think that bodybuilding-type posing is hard work should try
- it sometime.) If you took a look at them off-stage even later that
- evening, they wouldn't look nearly so extreme.
-
- Trygve (Who is forever being amazed by the misconceptions about
- bodybuilding--it wasn't all that long ago when I was talking
- to a perfectly intelligent sysadmin at a major defense
- contractor when she asked me, "when you get more than a certain
- amount of muscle, does all your body hair fall off?")
- --
- "Mysterious face discovered on Jerry Lewis' head--just like the one on
- Mars!"
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