[Ace Corona]

What do you think will happen with female bodybuilding in the next 20 years?

I think the muscular physique will invade Hollywood, and muscular actresses will be preferred over the anorexic waifs who are so prevalent today.

I also feel that we need younger female bodybuilders to enter the sport. We need a Teen Miss Fitness USA contest, and maybe some of the ranks of young Hollywood actresses will enter the bodybuilding scene, making it more popular.

What Arnold Schwarzenegger did in the early 1980's by making the more muscular male physique more popular, we now need a female athlete to take Hollywood by storm and prove that women with more muscle are sexier than their skinnier counterparts.

[bbdude]

i personally dont think theyre more pretty... just my 2 cents.. but it is a good idea yes...

[Ace Corona]

Some of them aren't pretty, but I think in the future we're going to see female bodybuilders who have developed an aesthetic that represents the ideal female form.

I'm not saying today's female bodybuilders have achieved that, but I think the ones who will are just over the horizon.

[redfirebirdowner]

I'll just stick to fitness chicks I'm not big in to chicks bigger than me. lol

[GetYanked]

Some WOMEN that look like WOMEN need to get in the sport.

[Kirk]

my two cents, im into fitness models, not bodybuilding women... nothing will change that. i personally dont find bodybuilding women attractive at all.

[Frag Hag]

Originally Posted by GetYanked

Some WOMEN that look like WOMEN need to get in the sport.

If by looking "like WOMEN" you mean "pretty," i have nothing to contribute to the sport. I'm not in it to be pretty, i'm in it to be strong. Ronnie coleman and trey brewer aren't exactly pretty boys, but that doesn't stop them from accumulating tons of fanboys.

I personally look forward to the day when women in this sport can be judged by their hard work and strong physique rather than their fuckability. Then maybe strength can be appreciated as a form of beauty in itself.

[GetYanked]

Originally Posted by Frag Hag

If by looking "like WOMEN" you mean "pretty," i have nothing to contribute to the sport. I'm not in it to be pretty, i'm in it to be strong. Ronnie coleman and trey brewer aren't exactly pretty boys, but that doesn't stop them from accumulating tons of fanboys.

I personally look forward to the day when women in this sport can be judged by their hard work and strong physique rather than their fuckability. Then maybe strength can be appreciated as a form of beauty in itself.

I mean women features NOT square jaw,deep voice and all that crap. Iris Kyle looks like a man so does dyana kadue or whatever and 99% of the other "female" bb's. If "women" want the sport to grow they should start looking like women.

[irondisciple]

and the word of the day is...

Originally Posted by Frag Hag

... fuckability...

[bbdude]

Originally Posted by Frag Hag

If by looking "like WOMEN" you mean "pretty," i have nothing to contribute to the sport. I'm not in it to be pretty, i'm in it to be strong. Ronnie coleman and trey brewer aren't exactly pretty boys, but that doesn't stop them from accumulating tons of fanboys.

I personally look forward to the day when women in this sport can be judged by their hard work and strong physique rather than their fuckability. Then maybe strength can be appreciated as a form of beauty in itself.

if they were judged by what u call fuckability, Iris Kyle would never been Ms. Olympia...

but i do agree that on a lower level, where girls dont take anabolic steroids, tehy are judged by how good the judges imagine they would be in bed rather than their hard work...

[Frag Hag]

Originally Posted by GetYanked

I mean women features NOT square jaw,deep voice and all that crap. Iris Kyle looks like a man so does dyana kadue or whatever and 99% of the other "female" bb's. If "women" want the sport to grow they should start looking like women.

Sounds like your beef is with steroid use, then. If natty federations were as popular as olympia and IFBB, maybe their use wouldn't be so rampant. Women coming into the sport are only emulating their male counterparts. The men look like freaks, they're in it to look like freaks, what do you think the women will learn when they get into it?

Steroid use is not for me, and i still want to get huge even without them, even if i'll be fighting my hormonal deficiencies tooth and nail. Of course, i was cursed with a wide jaw and a "dudley do right" cleft chin of jay leno proportions, so even if i stay natural for life, people will still accuse me of using steroids. Even natty guys who get huge are assumed to use steroids by the general population, so it all comes down to the image of bodybuilding as a whole. If the sport of bodybuilding for men and women is to grow in the next 20 years, we have to think about how we want to present ourselves to spectators and the world at large.

And while the judging at actual competitions may be more subjective for female competitors than male, i was actually talking about being "judged" by other people; friends, coworkers, and especially their fellow bodybuilders.

I think the way to encourage more women to get into this sport is to stop using "sarcasm quotes" around the gender of the women who are already in it. We should also show them natural competitors of both genders as the poster example of what a bodybuilder is, because bodybuilding doesn't necessarily have to involve steroids.

[moorey]

Originally Posted by GetYanked

I mean women features NOT square jaw,deep voice and all that crap. Iris Kyle looks like a man so does dyana kadue or whatever and 99% of the other "female" bb's. If "women" want the sport to grow they should start looking like women.

youll never get that unless they dont use GH and gear, Ive seen some attractive girls developed masculiune traits and I guess if you want to be number one, you do what is neccessarily and why I cant say I find it atractive, you cant deny the sheer dedication these girls have to make the ultimate sacrifice of developing masculine features to try to achieve their goals!