Without Eva Tanguay, We Might Not Have Modern Lifting Culture… But She Didn’t Lift and Had Zero Fucks to Give About the Opinions of the Masses

Jamie Chaos

October 30, 2021

For those of you who don’t know, non-lifter women have played a major role in the popularization of muscularity in popular culture. Perhaps the most important of those women was Mae West, a huge star on vaudeville, television, and movies who was essentially a singing version of the foul-mouthed, cone-chested blonde chick from Reno 911 and Bridesmaids if she could sing and had the merciless fashionista sense of Lada Gaga. West travelled everywhere with a “bodyguard” of bodybuilders intended to protect her from conservatives who wanted to hang a beating on her for being too liberated (and apparently she got a lot of threats). Those bodybuilders were always shirtless and on heavy display, so she paved the way for Arnold to make it into American movies by getting guys like hypercarnivore and BME Armand Tanny and pot-smoking Gold’s Gym Venice manager Zabo Koszewski onto American televisions on a weekly basis.

West apparently took most of her inspiration from Eva Tanguay, the buxom badass who was both best friends with Aleister Crowley and a multi-millionaire as she commanded the hearts, minds, and cocks of Americans.

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Jamie Chaos

I am a former all-time, all federation world record holder in raw powerlifting at 181lbs, a record I broke just to say fuck you to the internet’s “lifting” community and the powerlifting community at large. Over the last ten years I’ve written over 500 articles on strength training, nutrition, and supplementation, and continue to do so simply to fight the tide of weakness and sadness that currently pervades the scene I’ve called home for the better part of three decades. I’ve got personal trainin certs, BodyPump and BodyCombat certs, a BA in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona, and MBAs from the Vienna University and University of South Carolina on my side, in addition to some sick lifts and a hell of a lot of rage. What the fuck have you got?

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