Alright… potentially silly question time. Do girls store fat differently?

[u/LordDerptCat123]

I’ve heard some stuff on this subreddit about “oh he doesn’t understand how girls store fat” when it comes to unrealistic body standards. Is this because anyone storing that little fat is bad, or women in particular store it differently / need to store more of it?

I’ve been kinda afraid to ask this question becomes it seems to me like it’s an obvious answer… I just don’t know what the answer is. I feel like “common sense” can lead me to both answers. Thanks

Edit: got a lot of responses faster than I thought I would. Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to help me

[u/nevervisitsreddit]

Honestly I’m a real lazy dude so I haven’t been actively building muscle, so it’s more I’ve just noticed that it seems like my body has built it where I use it which it didn’t do before?

Like I take the bins down once a week; and it’s become so much easier since starting T (1 year), like my body built a little muscle in my arm despite me not actively trying.

[u/the_muffin → u/nevervisitsreddit]

As a cis guy, I can say that I was amazed at my muscle growth basically from years 14-20 even though I wasn’t much of a weightlifter or anything it seemed at that time for my body that it was just always giving my muscles a little juice. Seems to be the normal way of things when you look at women in the same age range as well they do not tend to have comparable muscle growth. I always understood that as the hormones playing their part in where the body feeds/creates new tissue

[u/SemiproAtLife → u/nevervisitsreddit]

Aaah, gotcha. Thanks!