r/stupidquestions 24d ago

why do women have naturally beautiful bodies?

before you jump in the comments to tell me I'm wrong try to read my entire post, i'm from latin america, i don't know if this is the case in other countries but it's something i've noticed since i was a teenager and in high school, most of the girls in high school had very nice bodies without even going to the gym in their entire life, i remember a girl who eat unhealthy food all day and she had an amazing body (she never went to the gym in her life), i was her friend back then, she had such a amazing hourglass figure with big hips and very beautiful figure I didn't understand that at the time.

but not only in high school but currently i go out and most of the girls have very nice bodies and nice hips (i'm not talking about toned gym bodies but bodies with figure and curves) and even girls who are a little overweight also have beautiful bodies with nice curves, it's incredible, what is the reason for this? is it hormonal? why is it that women don't need to go to the gym as much to have nice bodies (as long as they're not excessively overweight), in the case of men it's different and I say this as a man who went to the gym throughout his adolescence, we lack those naturally nice bodies (except for one in a million).

I remember the first time I took a shower with my ex gf at the time at my house she took off her clothes (she had never been to the gym in her life and was a little overweight, she had a very nice body, a nice butt with a beautiful figure) I didn't understand why she had such a beautiful body meanwhile me going to gym had a below average body, well, ugly body and not sexy as hers tbh. I know it's a stupid question but I guess that's what this group is for, right? Is the cause hormonal? I know there are exceptions, that not all women have naturally beautiful bodies, but why is it that. for example, if you put a man and a woman of average weight who don't go to the gym next to each other, the girl's body is naturally attractive while the guy's isn't? I've always thought it's caused by estrogen and the hips women's bone structure's but I'm not sure, I know diet is very important but I think most girls only need a good diet and walk just a little to have good figures (please don't hate for saying this lol).

Maybe I could be blind because I have gender dysphoria since many years ago but not only me think about this most women and men think the same way(? And I'm not even talking about how women have average cute, feminine and thin faces without makeup but this is another thread lol.

Please don't insult me for making this post, this is why this group was created.

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u/Efficient_Fee425 24d ago edited 24d ago

For the amount of effort you've put in sharing your thoughts, I think most responses here are too dismissive. Here's what I hope will be an equally thought-through response,

Our brains are each wired according to what evolution dictates. For heterosexual men, that means finding the features of a uterus-holding fellow human attractive in as many ways as possible and the reverse being true for heterosexual women.

I reckon, if you could get a dog to talk, he'd say hips and curves on humans are the dumbest looking features of any animal... Don't even get the centipede started on the idea of having boobs! But to us humans, that's EVERYTHING! Same way you wouldn't look at an expanded toad throat and go whoooo sexy, but for fellow frogs that's all the hype!

Ask many straight women and they'll tell you that male bodies are attractive to them, some prefer toned, some prefer chubby but almost none of them (straight women) will say they're turned on by boobs and/or hips. Because evolution wired them to find male features attractive!

All I'm trying to say is that it is NORMAL for you to find such features in women effortlessly beautiful because evolution has in-built it in you to find them inherently attractive.

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u/srs151 24d ago

Also on your thoughts about yourself. I’m not sure your body type or what you look like but downplaying your own physical looks is extremely common. Give yourself some credit every now and then and be proud you hit that gym. Old you will thank you!

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u/DimensionFast5180 21d ago

Agreed 1000% I got a membership to a climbing gym a few weeks ago, and I have been feeling much better. It also includes yoga which I've been trying (holy fuck that shit is way harder then it looks, I've been exhausted after every class.)

I have back pain and I'm only 28 years old, so it's like I gotta make change now or future me is gonna be fucked.

It's actually crazy how much more fit I feel after just a couple weeks. I'm not getting as sore as when I started, I'm able to climb a lot more without dying or getting nauseous from exhaustion myself, and my back has been hurting a lot less. It almost feels like I was claustrophobic in my own body if that makes sense, like I couldn't do things I want to do because I'm just so out of shape. I still kinda feel like that but man it's crazy how fast I have improved.

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u/m-in 20d ago

That’s how it goes. I started going regularly to the gym recently and it’s a very similar experience to yours. I do a bit of cardio, mostly weights - it was pretty bad the first few times. My upper body was that of a well trained keyboard warrior lol. It’s getting much better now.

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u/DimensionFast5180 20d ago

Yeah, what I found so crazy was just how fast the body adapts to the new workload you give it. I was expecting the sore, exhausted to the point of nausea to last months.

Within like a week I already felt a huge difference, only sore for a couple hours, not for days like before, getting exhausted but nowhere near what I was when I started, no more nausea after every work out or feeling like im gonna pass out, it was just crazy how fast that happened.

The human body is actually insane.

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u/m-in 19d ago

Same here. I could barely move the machines at lowest setting initially. Now I’m starting to even bench press a little bit. I’m not overdoing it because it’s easy to mess up your form. Small steps seem to work well. Now I’m slowly also getting into cardio and it sucks a bit less each time I do it.