The De-Masculinization of Pro Bodybuilding
I just finished looking over the pictures from this years Olympia and then I opened up my Arnold Swartzenegger Encyclopedia of bodybuilding to look back on the "golden era" of bodybuilding of the 70's, and it dawned on me. Bodybuilding has made a big change. Bodybuilding used to be a sport filled with masculine looking men, whom the women were attracted to and the men admired and wished to be like.
While looking through the latest Olympia pictures the only thought that kept running through my head was "What a gay-fest! I sure hope my roomate doesn't walk in and see me looking at this crap or I will never hear the end of it". Here I am looking at the asses of three monstrous men decorated in colorful bikini cut trunks that no straight man would be caught wearing on any beach! So far I've seen leopard print, bright pink with sparkly glitter on it, and bright cherry reflective red....what that fuck!!
Even the poses are gay. Guys doing the splits, guys sticking their asses out, guys striking little balerina poses! Bodybuilding used to be some big buff dude who looks like he could kick your ass walks out onto the stage with a woman on each arm, sucks down two 16 oz steaks and a gallon of milk, grunts three times, and walks off. At no point did the audience feel the need to observe how "ripped his glutes are", nor did he feel he should display them.
Even Ronnie Coleman, who otherwise might look like a tough dude, can't be taken seriously when he has a little pink g-string crammed up his ass!? Maybe next year they will add a talent competition and they can all sing showtunes. Ugh. It's a good thing we have football players because if young men these days grew up idolizing bodybuilders the world would be a very different place..