Why are amazons portrayed as being larger than humans in the size community?

[TakoAlice8]

I have seen a size chart somebody posted on the internet to ask people how they like the size of their characters and amazons were on the larger side of the chart next to human size. I looked at pictures of amazons from greek mythology from historical images I found on the internet. All of them portrayed amazons as being the same size as humans. Wonder woman is an amazon and she is human sized.

Why is it common for people in this community to portray amazons as larger than humans?

[miss-lillipants]

@TakoAlice8 the Amazon “classification” in the size community is likely just from the modern use of the term “Amazon” outside of the size community. “Amazon” has generally been attributed to not only warrior classes of women, but women who are muscular and also often tall (as in, taller than average and within the realms of realism). I would guess that the more exaggerated heights were a stylistic choice to… embellish or emphasise the perceived strength and power of the women, which we are all very familiar with.

So it was a natural choice for the size community to adopt to describe a particular preference for their fantasies, i.e. tall, strong, muscular women.

[DFP]

@miss-lillipants As a fetish video producer this is exactly correct. Our industry applies labels that have no real life compatibility. Amazons are unusually tall women even though that was never historically the case just as Milfs are women in their 30s even though most women have children in their 20s. Size equals strength even though anatomy shows that longer distances between tendons actually tends to reduce strength not increase it. Glasses equals intelligence even though intelligence and eyesight actually have no relationship. Visual archetypes are a short of shorthand film-makers have used since the beginning of the industry. Consider how fat and lazy have become pretty much synonymous in western society even though some people really are simply victims of genetics and may be very physically active.

[TakoAlice8]

@miss-lillipants That’s interesting. I wonder how amazons became to also be associated with tall and muscular women. Maybe because being a warrior is associated with being tall and muscular?

[tiny-ivy]

@TakoAlice8

I think the “Amazons are tall muscular women” thing originally came from Wonder Woman comics? She’s human-sized, but some comics portrayed them as unusually tall women, 6ft+ or so all around. I thought.

[HHunter1]

@tiny-ivy

Yep, many artists draw Wonder Woman taller then several of the male superheroes.

But I think it has a lot to do with the whole warrior women thing. Powerful fighters are often portrayed as taller and more muscled. It makes sense for that to be the same for both physical genders.

HH1

[DFP]

@HHunter1 More interesting points are that in standard art it’s commonly accepted that a body should be 7.5-8 times the ratio of the head for regular proportioning, but comic book artists normally draw superheroes as 9 heads scale for the body to make the character look bigger and more buff. With the advent of female superheroes I’d guess that had a lot to do with Amazons being larger. Also, I’d guess the patriarchy had a hand. You’d be surprised by how many submissive men I’ve spoken with that blithely assumed that if they ever rebelled against a FemDomme it would be no contest. So it was almost a necessity that Dominant Women become taller and more muscular so men would take their authority seriously. As I write this, it’s just occurring to me that I wonder if this had anything to do with the fascination with midget wrestling. Tiny people fighting seems almost counter-intuitive in our society. Even more so, this makes me think of the fascination with Bruce Lee.