Damn it, I get so TIRED of the IGNORANT MORONS who post on Getbig forums, make negative comments about FBB, and yet don’t know “shiit from shinola” about the subject??!
Bodybuilding?? Do you mean a recreational female weight-trainer…who is a “bodybuilder”…since she is using progressive resistance exercise (hopefully, progressive and not just "flailing around" with little 5-10 lb. DB’s), or a woman who competes in the “sport” (I think the word “art form” is a better descriptor…not meaning to say that many FBBers aren’t excellent athletes, as well!)??!
I have been training and advising women in the martial-arts since the early 70’s and have always encouraged them to supplement their MA training with the fundamental progressive resistance weightlifting exercises (e.g. squats, deadlifts, good mornings, rows, overhead and flat/incline bench presses) for the purpose of building basic body strength. Many of these women became much stronger than (could outlift) the average man and looked VERY feminine. I don’t know if any of them took BB drugs.
The ignorance lies in the failure of these FBB bashing morons/novices to understand the difference between the competitive FBBers abnormal greatly reduced bwt., dehydrated, facially-drawn, “pre-contest” look and how VERY different these FBBers look in their much more normal “off-season” look under normal lighting, relaxed, "dressed-to-kill", etc….stunning to say the least!!!
Of course, you are always going to have a SMALL handful of FBBers who are too “masculine/virilized looking” to suit practically anyone’s taste! But, to try and stereotype all FBBers as looking like this (or striving to look like this) miniscule selection is either ignorance in the extreme, or just having “a hate FBB” agenda.
Here are two examples of "novice/general-public ignorance" from rearing my 5 children…
(1) In the late 80’s, my three sons and their friends were going through my MD’s and came across a Ms. Olympia contest pic. of Cory. “Oh how ugly, how horrible!”, they all exclaimed. I then pulled out a copy of another muscle mag. that had a very sexy, relaxed, off-season, pose of Cory and showed it to them. “Wow, who is that”?, they eagerly commented. When I told them that it was the SAME woman, they were totally bewildered and refused to believe me!
(2) In the early 90’s, I took my two teenage daughters and a couple of their school friends to a regional FBB contest. During the contest, these girls made ugly comments about the “excessive masculine muscularity” of the FBB competitors. However, when I took them to an “after party” with these same competitors present, relaxed and “dressed-to-kill”, all negative comments abruptly ceased, and all the girls were “bug-eyed” at the beautiful hour-glass figures of these FBB competitors! There was total silence in the car on the way home and BOTH of my daughter's friends took up recreational BB shortly thereafter!
Finally, I used to train with a female national Olympic weightlifting champion in the early 90’s. For a while, she even held the national record in the clean and jerk. I definitely thought she had done overdone the juice to the point of virilization…besides her somewhat “masculine look” she had a deep husky masculine-sounding voice!
Then, I didn’t see her for some eight years and happened to drop in to train at the same gym where we used to train, just when she was working out. I didn’t recognize her and when she came up to say "hello" I was shocked at her change in appearance!! Of course, she had long since retired from competitive weightlifting and had become a recreational BBer.
Her masculine traits were ALL GONE (!) and her voice sounded high-pitched and very feminine. I couldn’t believe it was her (she now looked quite feminine and sexy!) until she started doing rep. back squats with over 300 lbs.!! Apparently, whatever effects the juice had on her had reversed itself after she got off it for several years! Go figure??!
Clearly, confident, self-assured, competitive, even sexually aggressive, FBB women are a threat to many insecure, ignorant men (rather “boys”)!!