To me, competitive female bodybuilding is toxic.  The long term effects of the drugs and their side effects, plus the organ damage that results from the 'dieting' and unnatural lean-ness at competition time, have tainted the whole thing for me.  It's a pageant of the grotesque.

Figure competitions - especially non-IFBB and non-NPC events - are better, but really the whole concept of physique competitions (as opposed to actual athletic competitions) leaves me pretty cold at this point.  It brings out the worst in people and leaves them permanently damaged.

Yeah, but there will always be people who trash an opportunity for any old reason.  It's the ones who don't post a reply, but instead go ahead and audition, who get anywhere in the world.  Mimi's posts are attracting naysayers, but I bet that there are people who are grateful that she posted the notice and are acting on it (no pun intended!).

Some people are ambitious and recognize opportunities and accomplish things.  Other people hear opportunity knock at the door and complain that it's too much work to get up and answer it.  But as the saying goes, the world needs ditch diggers too.

Great! The people producing this sounded so "turned off" by the negative response, I thought it would never be done. It's great to hear they are going ahead with it.