Good Morning America (GMA) did a piece on Women who are toned or “too toned” in their words. Recently Cameron Diaz was seen rock’n a Hardbody and that has people up in arms. God forbid a woman eat healthy, workout and have abs. GMA’s Lindsey Davis “investigates” the topic.
There wasn’t a lot of investigating in the segment but check it out.
It’s rather amusing that they show bikini competitors as an examples of “too buff”. NPC Bikini competitor Summer White is interviewed in the piece. She placed 5th in her class at the NPC USA Bikini Championships.
It’s pathetic that mainstream media wants to paint being toned as a bad thing. I say go F yourself if you think Cameron Diaz is “too toned” and if anyone has an issue with women looking buff, they should take a long look at themselves first. What do you think Hard Body Nation?
Fuck GMA.
There is a renaissance of slackers and their sympathizers in the media, always preaching “moderation” and trying to drag those who excel down to their own insecure, underachieving, pedestrian level.
Women who badmouth their buff sisters are every bit as sexist -and complicit in perpetuating sexist streotypes- as the slobbering knuckledragers who want all women to look like Barbie Dolls.
Women have muscles too. Get over it!
cameron looks great , go summer ,It takes a woman alot more work than a man to get muscle tone so have respect for woman sports figures they are working hard and so focused .
as a “buff woman” who plans to compete in a figure competition, i find it disturbing that other women tell me that i shouldn’t work out so much because woman are supposed to be “soft”. lol! i look at them w/ their flabby arm fat and stomachs hanging over their pants and giggle as a rock my size “2′s” effortlessly! this is just silly!
Wow… This is pathetic! I’d much rather be “toned” than layered with fat! I think somebody has a bad case of jealousy! Oh amd Cameron has a smokin hot body! Thank you!!!
There’s nothing wrong with looking buff. I think more importantly, instead of worrying about physical appearances, society should be more focused on our health. Figure competitors can sometimes develope health problems with their reproductive, endocrine, and skeletal systems because of the stress they put on their bodies mixed with lack of nutrients from dietary restrictions. However, this does not account for all competitors, only some- just as non body competitors can be afflicted with health issues. Body building is a lifestyle preference and to each his own. I’m not a competitor, but I know people who are, and they are so dedicated to their lifestyle and its turned their lives around in some cases. They just have to monitor their health just like the rest if us.
People always try to bring down others who remind them of what they are not able to do. Did they show these ‘critics’? Probably not even at a normal weight. They’re not threatened by average people, that’s why they put down the people who take it to the next level.
Did they make sure to make the overweight population feel good about being overweight and not healthy? They usually toss some of that in there, because God forbid we make them feel bad or scrutinize them!
My 15 year old daughter is cross country/track & field athlete and (not meaning to brag) she has a killer athletic body just naturally and her training has made her even better. She is practically tormented for having a cut, strong body – by the chubbiest, coke drinking and sausage biscuit eating girls at her school! If she wasn’t so fit and strong, she could hurt herself – maybe catastrophically. They kill me with this crap!! First, it’s get the weight off, we’re a fat nation then, when people start to get there, it’s oh, women need to be soft !! Stop it, GMA!!
BTW, CAMERON D is the SH**, that’s why she got A ROD!! He don’t seem to mind that hardbod-day!!
Well thank goodness I do what I do for MYSELF! I’ve already heard that I live off of “tree bark and seeds,” gotten the, “Well, I’d rather be fat and happy than thin and miserable,” and “Going to the gym AGAIN? You should back off, you have enough muscles, YOU’RE GOING TO LOOK LIKE A MAN.”
Ya know what? I most assuredly eat more than bark and seeds…a LOT more. And thanks to a multitude of websites, I have discovered a million different ways to make protein and veggies VERY flavorful. I enjoy my food…and WITHOUT going into a shame spiral about it.
And why does it have to be either fat and happy or thin and miserable? How about neither? How about healthy and lovin’ life? Do they really mind so much of we just do THAT? And I absolutely challenge the fat/happy myth. Everyone who has ever uttered those words to me has either dieted (ugh) or had surgery to correct their “happiness.”
YES, I am going to the gym again. Yes, I know I was there yesterday. Yes, I am going again tomorrow. I have a relationship with exercise, and I work on all my important relationships. I will look like a man? Really? I tell ya what…I will keep lifting, just so that I can prove you right, and you can say, “I told you so.” I want you to be happy, (and no I don’t mean “fat”) so I will do that JUST for you.
I try to remember this: “Don’t be discouraged by criticism. Remember that the only taste of success some people get is when they take a bite out of you.”
Oyi, sorry about the rant. Anyway, it is completely irresponsible of GMA to criticize healthy people for being healthy. That is not a message our overweight nation needs to hear. It’s like criticizing intelligent people for being intelligent, lol.
I think what people are saying.. Is that there is a fine line between buff, in shape, and looking sexy…vs being too buff when a womens shoulders and biceps and chest start looking like a man on steroids with a women’s head on the shoulders… Then your too buff. However, if I had to pick between a women that’s looks more like a buff man vs a fat women, then I’ll pick the buff women.
I think it’s cool they interviewed Summer!
I compete in bikini. But I also wear a pair of long slacks & long sleeved shirt to work everyday, & strangers are still always commenting on my shape. I’m hoping to not have to always go through the explanation of what a bikini competitor is!
Summer looks great! I’m just hoping the word gets out about competing…Any publicity is good publicity right?
A fit, healthy body is sexy. And so is the confidence that goes with it! Plus…I think women who stay lean and take care of themselves like Cameron Diaz (& ourselves!) age more gracefully. We’ll have the last laugh!
Diaz is NOT buff she a skinny girl who turned any fat she had left into muscle. Just like sarah jessica Parker NOT buff she just toned up to the max!
Plus what the average age of GMA viewer: 55 -60 years old??
This seems to be media looking for a debate. I think there’s growing momentum by women to look healthy and toned. Women I know and here see Jessica Biel and Cameron Diaz as the desirable physique.
I think I speak for all us men when I say that if there were more women with Summer White’s body, nobody would complain
As for Cameron Diaz, I never found her attractive in the first place. And to compare her routine with A-Rod’s isn’t fair because he is a cheater who used steroids.
Slow news day for GMA. Never heard any of these so-called “critics” mentioned by name lol. Don’t hate on them just because they had to make something up to talk about. Every news channel does it.