They are looking for weird sexual arousal. That's why they call it a fetish
Notice that I use the word.....EXPLOIT.You charge as low as a dime a minute for someone to gawk at the calves of a female bodybuilder. Anyone who visits your site isn't looking for an appreciation of one "flexing her muscles". They are looking for weird sexual arousal. That's why they call it a fetish
Let's not pretend for a second that Chick's running down of the women's division had even the most tenuous connection with his duties in representing the men. He was simply belching up his own sexist ignorance in response to a perceived threat to his apparently tenuous sense of masculinity. And while doing so may or may not have been a direct abrogation of his rep duties, it was a singularly classless move in either case. Especially for someone in his position.I've never considered myself a Chick basher. I think he's actually more intelligent than the average bodybuilder [yeah, I know: scary] and he's not as much fun to pick on as Tamali. But between this sad move and his self-pwning on the main Don Long thread, I keep having to lower my estimation of him.
Did anyone consider the possibility that the IFBB could be "stuck" with female bodybuilding competitions?If they were to drop it, it could open the doors and allow any other organization to take over and possibly make some changes that would entice the money paying public.I don't think that the IFBB is willing to surrender any aspect of bodybuilding to the competition.
Even though I may disagree with him, from his perception, the pro women are a drain on the money that could be going to the pro men...
Chick is wrong. The fan base is not the same. Bodybuilding fans typically find FBB gross, and FBB "fans" are typically schmoes and fetishists into their "thing" and couldn't care less about regular bodybuilding.