Woman Dares Men to a Bar Challenge, Nobody Prepared for What Happens Next

Some men look forward to a drink after the gym—once they’ve left the lifting behind.

But one woman is certainly not letting them have it. Char (@chartedmyself), posed a challenge to men at a bar that if she could pick them up, they would have to buy her a drink. The TikTok video then shows her lifting man after man at the bar, including some without any indication of a struggle.

Since posting five days ago, the video has 2.6 million views and has racked up over 10,000 comments.

“Betting men at bars that if I can pick them up, they owe me a drink (or all the money in their pockets),” she captioned the video. “Guess how much money I made.”

Viewers loved Char’s courage, but beyond that, they loved her success.

“Not this queen being beautiful and strong,” user @taq052 wrote.

“The way you dropped them as the shock was registering for them was the best part,” @rissrissmariss said.

“This is it,” one viewer commented. “Finally, the motivation I needed to get in the gym.” @hernameislindsey said.

Alongside praise, the video prompted conversations about gender expectations around strength. Some users shared stories in this vein.

“I used to power lift, and I went on a date with a guy who is also a power lifter who was like 6 foot 5 or so and 330 pounds,” @ceanddy wrote. “He questioned how much I could lift, so I picked him up and carried him.”

The Struggles of Strong Women

Research on female bodybuilders has shown it’s not easy being strong—especially when it comes to body image.

Following interviews with seven women bodybuilders, researchers found that many of the women enjoyed the freedom of rejecting beauty ideals of “slimness”, but still found aspects of traditional femininity important.

“Women experienced pressures from within the body building community defining the acceptable size and appearance of their bodies,” the authors wrote in the research published in the Journal of Gender Studies. “They were engaged in a ‘balancing act’ where they were trying to attain a body that was muscular but not too muscular, and that maintained some aspects of traditional ‘feminine’ appearance.”

“It is concluded that women who engage in physique-level body building face complex layers of social pressure from within and outside the body building community,” they wrote.

The conflicting pressures for women who are involved in activities taking them beyond the realm of traditional femininity are difficult—and this is without considering the reactions of the men shocked by a strong woman.

As commenter @irl6783 wrote about the men in Char’s video: “How do you get them to go away afterwards though!?”