What’s a girl to do, why can’t I just be myself without hiding who I am?

I’m a 20 year old girl, I’m not a bodybuilder by any means but I am as a lot of people like to put it “freakishly strong” especially for my size. When I was a kid I can remember my mother telling me not to engage in tests of strength with boys, (arm wrestling, leg wrestling, wrestling, ect…) and if i had to to let them win. I never understood it but now that I’m 20 and I’ve scared every boyfriend I’ve ever had with things I can do. I can break pennies in half, and just able to lift things most guys, even those much bigger than I am cannot. Sometimes even being nervous and squeezing their hand too hard or things like that…. I grew up with a very strong mother and an average father, it was apparent to anyone that looked at them. They had a perfect relationship and my father wasn’t embarrassed, Is it something that guys grow out of or is it the fact that lately women are becoming stronger than in the past and they are rebelling? I don’t think guys should be upset, we are who we are. If I was 7′ tall I couldn’t help that any more than my innate strength I have and now that I’m 20 I’m starting to have to work out so I don’t get a belly, so of course I’m getting stronger than I already was. Why can’t I be proud of it and why do I have to hide it? Thing is I actually think it’s cute when I’m stronger than a guy and he realizes it.
Also I found this study I thought I would share. Women are stronger when they are equal to men in size. In studies carried out at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, for example, 10 male and nine female strength athletes (power lifters and body-builders) performed 20 maximal squat lifts, with three minutes of recovery between each lift. After the 20 lifts, the fatigued leg muscles of both males and females had lost about 20-24% of their maximal strength. However, various indicators of muscular power favored the females. For one thing, the force-time curve an indicator of muscles ability to contract powerfully and quickly changed negatively by 28% in the males over the course of the workout but dropped by only 19% in the females. Females also recovered from the 20-lift session more quickly. One hour after the workout, female lifters leg muscles could generate about 92% as much force as before the session, whereas male muscles were just 79% as strong. Why was the fatigue greater and recovery slower in males? Part of the problem seemed to be that the male lifters nervous systems became less responsive over the course of the workout. From the first to the 20 lift, activation of leg muscles by nerve cells fell by 20-25% in males but held fairly steady in females. While it’s not clear why male nerve activation should deteriorate more quickly, it is clear that females lose less of their muscular power during heavy-duty resistance training and seem to recover more rapidly once a tough session is over. (Neuro-muscular Fatigue and Recovery in Male and Female Athletes during Heavy Resistance Exercise, International Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 14(2), pp. 53-59, 1993)

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