Bodybuilding is not for everyone. One man's pleasure is another man's garbage. The cashier at the counter was only one of many (probably a fat whale herself). Look how many people follow bbdg and how many hot broads / groupies are at the shows / expos.
Actually, she was fairly pretty. My point, of course, is that the claims of physiques like Arnold being more acceptable to the mainstream are dubious, to say the least.
I used to ask myself why don't these fitness products get Mr. Olympia to endorse their wares, if they're so great. Well, the folks who made the "TorsoTrak" actually did.
Of course, that Mr. Olympa was Frank Zane, the smallest of all the Olympia winners (and of course, it's 20+ years after he retired). The commercial introduced him as "3-time MR. UNIVERSE, Frank Zane". The pic has Zane in (or near his prime), with his Mr. Universe titles in large print and his Mr. Olympia title in much smaller print.