03-01-2008, 09:53 AM
wff_Edita.S Wrote:Some more comments from 2008 "Arnold's Classic" visitors:
Originally Posted by Juggernaut
Cal Joe you don't have to address the femininity issue but while you were gone or on your off cycle I took a good look at every women's bodybuilding contest ever broadcast that was posted on You Tube, Google Video, Daily Motion or Bodybuilding.com. Without fail every Ms. Olympia, Worlds, Nationals, USA or Ms. International makes exactly the point that femininity is a key component of women's bodybuilding. Without femininity women's bodybuilding becomes just regular bodybuilding and women are biologically a different gender than men.
That means Lori Bowen said femininity was a key ingredient to the success of a female bodybuilder when she did the Ms. Olympia for NBC Sports World. That also means former Ms. Olympias like former Ms. Olympia Rachel McLish, former Ms. Olympia Carla Dunlap for ESPN, Former Ms. Olympia Cory Everson for ESPN, Marjo Selin even did a Ms. Olympia for ESPN and said the same thing-Femininity has a very important role in women's bodybuilding.
Then you look at the contestant interviews and they are saying the same thing. Then Kim Chezevsky said the same thing after she retired. I know I went to see her seminar live for the Weiders. She said it was very important to her as an example of women's bodybuilding to like like a girl and to be feminine. Lenda Murray said it after she got beat by Iris.
In 2001 when Juliette Bergman won the Ms. Olympia after a comeback to competitive bodybuilding she said in an interview that she wanted to show the ladies that the Ms. Olympia was a "woman with muscles, but first and foremost she was a woman."
With tonight's webcast Nancy DeNino and Chaundra Tangi said the same thing. They both agreed that a goal of the contestant in tonights Ms. International was to incorporate femininity with muscularity, conditioning and symmetry.
Where you or any of your cronies got it into your heads that femininity had nothing to do with women's bodybuilding, I do not know?
You are wrong though.
Address femininity or ignore femininity that is your perogative but femininity is the key component to the successful promotion of women's bodybuilding contests.
This is comment of EDMUNDAS DAUBARAS:
I think it is too late to correct the situation in Women Bodybuilding.
I like Women Bodybuilding - Natalia Murnikoviene was my pupil for 4,5 years.
We do try to escape from the problem: plus to very muscular Women Bodybuilding Categories appeared new Figure, Fitness Categories.
What is the result? A great number of Fitness and Figure Athletes could easy be the Winners of previous Bodybuilding "Olympias".
Sportsmen and Judges see the only way - more and more muscles!
And it is nearly impossible to make a Big Stop and to change the mentality, to change the general view on the sport we love.
It is as it is.