eschergirls:

vastderp:

Sarah Robles is the strongest woman in America. She’s beaten every other competitor, male and female, to become the highest-ranked lifter in the USA. She’s an Olympian at 23. She could lift your entire nuclear family and throw them, and she lives on 400 bucks a month because for some mysterious reason she can’t get endorsement deals.

C’mon culture, stop being fucked up. Strength is beauty and Sarah Robles is a role model with no exposure.

Chasing your dream and being powerful = feminine as all fuck.

EDIT: There is now a fundraiser to help fund her journey to the Olympics!

http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforanolympian

I know this isn’t exactly on topic, but because we’ve had discussions on this blog before about societal beauty standards, what athletic women look like, the diversity in body types and that fat people can be athletic and healthy, and this story involves all of those, PLUS there’s a way to donate to her if you want to help, I’m reblogging this. :)

And also, in terms of this blog, to remind people that even if you only want to draw “athletic” women to be superheroines, there’s a lot of different body types that athletes have.  Not every one looks like Maria Sharapova.

But obviously the most important thing here is the real person and helping her. :)

I might be Canadian but this is a great story and a really good reblog to SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOST!

YAY!

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