I've been bodybuilding for three years and I'm finally strong enough to deadlift my bodyweight, but my mom keeps saying I'm getting 'too muscular for a girl' and I don't know why her opinion still matters to me.
More people experience this than they realize.
She's caught between personal empowerment and familial acceptance, questioning whether physical strength is worth the social cost of gender nonconformity.
“Where Are You with Body as identity — physical self-concept?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.