Hahaha..that comment by him is so funny, and true.. I've always looked at competitive bodybuilding as a beauty pageant for men... that's all it really is, you're in a g-string showing off your body.
But the key difference is that a traditional beauty pageant is about both bodies
and faces. A traditional bodybuilding contest, conversely, is only about bodies. Would Ronnie, Dorian, Bannout, Haney, Columbo or Oliva have won the World's most prestigious physique contest if the judges took into consideration their faces as well in the judging? They are not exactly handsome men or pretty boys. The only good-looking Sandow winner I can think of is Larry Scott. Even Arnold and Zane were about average facially.
Now, it is a well-known fact that Uncle Joe is bisexual, as well as many I.F.B.B and NPC judges. A friend of mine who was an NPC judge here in Florida told me that he quit judging because he was disgusted by the comments that many judges made about the competitors, which were full of sexual innuendo, and that they purposefully rewarded the prettiest boys to the detriment of the the ugly ducklings, no matter what their physiques looked like. Most competitors on the local NPC level are boys in their late teens and twenties, while the judges are usually middle-aged men in their forties and fifties. This begs the question: What kind of straight man sits to watch a bunch of boys young enough to be their sons pose for them all oiled up and in trunks? What difference is there between this and a bunch of guys watching an oiled-up stripper pose in a strip joint?
Now, the I.F.B.B judges tend to be far more serious in their judging than the NPC judges, and especially than the NPC judges at the lower levels - NPC judges at the top Nationals level are more serious. Regardless, it is a well-known fact many I.F.B.B judges dislike traits that they regard as unmanly, like competitors with long hair, earrrings, hair dyes, etc. Several competitors have been marked down for that; it's no secret. Most I.F.B.B pros are in their thirties, and this reflects in the judges taste: while the bisexual NPC judges like pretty boys, the I.F.B.B ones prefer them ruggedly handsome and macho, with them having square jaws, cropped hair and no effete body modifications. Such is life.
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