‘Girls ought to simplest do cardio, lifting is for guys’, ‘You gained’t appear to be a girl if you build muscle tissues’ — it’s 2021 and girls are still dealing with such stereotypical fitness-associated feedback. Actor Taapsee Pannu is absolutely in opposition to the commonplace belief that having a muscular physique is a man’s domain.
“Unfortunately, there’s still a stereotypical outlook towards women’s fitness. It’s extremely sad. Who has made this rule that women can’t have muscles? I find this to be a big myth which all of us must have heard and maybe in the beginning when I was trying to lose weight at a point in life, I also heard that ‘just do cardio and don’t do weightlifting’. I paid attention to that stupid advice because I did not know any better and I was not that open-minded at that time that I would question it, but slowly with time I realised it’s absolutely wrong,” Taapsee told a news portal. According to her, it’s baseless to body disgrace any female for having muscular tissues.
“Why do people put too much emphasis on a certain kind of a body? A woman’s body will not become a man’s body after building muscles. It will still be a woman’s body because it’s shaped in a different way. I really find this type of stereotyping baseless. I want this notion to be broken because having strong muscles is not a man’s domain. Period,” Taapsee emphasised.
Like many others, Taapsee fell prey to body shaming. A phase of social media customers trolled her for her bodily transformation for ZEE5’s film ‘Rashmi Rocket’, wherein she essays the position of an expert sprinter who is pressured to go through gender trying out. Many defined her transformation as manly.
Talking approximately the identical, she stated, “People might have drooled over my look if I had positioned up a bikini photo. There might be feedback like ‘whatta frame’, ‘so warm’. For me, the body that’s well worth appreciating is the one that has been labored difficult on. I might as an alternative respect a person who has labored very tough on the body and on every occasion you work tough for your body, you do have positive described muscular tissues to your body which could show up… I would as a substitute appreciate that body than someone who’s simply blessed by way of God to be thin.”
