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He's ignoring that people might not like how larger muscles look.
And personally (though I don't care much) I would only care about practical athletic ability, not weight lifting.
I guess the relation between muscle mass and physical attractiveness is non-monotonic, so a marginal increase in muscle mass would make some people look marginally better and other people look marginally worse. (I suspect the median Internet user is in the former group, though.)
ETA: Judging from the picture on Wikipedia, Rippetoe himself looks like someone who would look better if he lost some weight (but I'm a heterosexual male, so my judgement might be inaccurate).
I'm somewhat annoyed that the comments on this thread are vapid, but this might be worth responding to. It doesn't particularly matter whether or not Rippetoe is himself currently ripped -- see this Wikipedia article of yours for his domain expert credentials:
Secondly, notice that he was a competitive powerlifter thirty years ago. Senescence is a bitch.
Why “of yours”? I've never edited it.
I didn't dispute them. The grandparent and great-grandparent are about “how larger muscles look”. I can't see how the passage you quote is relevant to the fact that I think he's ugly.
I understand this line of thought, but.. strength doesn't have to be developed through weights, strength increase doesn't necessarily mean much hypertrophy, and most importantly strength is a prerequisite/accelerator for increasing pretty much all athletic abilities (power, flexibility, endurance..)