[fasola]

When I first joined this madhouse called Amaz0ns (winter '06), I doubted my love of muscular women.  I tried to "cure" myself, cancelled my membership, rejoined, deliberated and agonised.  It's only natural.  Now?  I laugh at stuff like that article about A-Rod.  Yes, there are hideous steroid victims around.  Are they representative of the whole of female bodybuilding?  No.  Not even at the Ms Olympia.  And is the Ms O representative of FBBing on a wider basis?  Again, no.  It's a spectrum.  At one end you have the Jodi Millers, Johanna Dejagers and Gina Farnsworths.  At the other, you have Nicole Bass.  The point is that there's room within the FBBing world, even excluding Figure and Fitness and European Bodyfitness, for all tastes. 

That article was an extreme reaction.  It was written because the writer is trying to be snarky and "clever".  He/she is playing on the fact that the wider population has a distrust about muscular women.  This distrust or unease usually manifests itself in one or more of the following gut reactions:

1.  Ewww.
2.  It's a man.
3.  It's a steroid abuser.
4.  She's a lesbian.
5.  Don't tell a soul, but I'm actually turned-on.  I'm ashamed of this reaction, so I'll pretend that I think one of 1-4.

We are in a sixth group.

6.  Mmmmm!  She's hot!

Needless to sy, the writer of that article is pandering to groups 1-4 whilst not alienating group 5.  Group 6?  Well, we're weird.  But are we?

If you go back, say 15 years, there were more of us.  There was the original American Gladiators (or just plain Gladiators for Brits like me).  There was Cory Everson as Atalanta, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley and Jeanette Goldstein as Vasquez, FBBing was shown on TV, and being buff was cool.  Then, something bad happened.  Trends shifted towards the girlie, doll-like appearance, and Ms Olympia became a minority affair due to the appearance ofthe competitors.  Where are we now?  We're just starting to pull-out of a massive trough we've been in for years.  There is slightly increased coverage for buff women now, but there's still plenty enough public inertia to provide these gossip writers with comedic potential.

In short, though it seems like a cliche; we are not weird.  We are DIFFERENT.

You sir, shure know your way with words.

And we might be different, or not exactly what mainstream media tells us to do or like. But one thing is shure, we are way more centered and open to new or different things than most of the guys and gals at most of those blogs/boards. I mean, it is the way of human nature, if we look at it in a wider view. The same thing happend when european conquerors came to america ( and I mean all of AMERICA) the complettley trashed the native cultre because it was different from theirs. But never actually took a second to analize or event try to understand what they were seeing.

It is easier to cover your ears and close your eyes and trash what might be against your beliefs than take the time to analize it, see if there is a posibility to actually accept it or embrace it, or if still you can't live that way, just let those who live it , live. We don't go to every board around and trash the slender, frail, almost sickennig image of women because it is not of our liking, we let them live their own lifes nad get bussy with ours.

Just my thoughts.

[fasola]

The fourth scanned page from the CAPTAIN AMERICA annual, of course.

Mistake, I would think.

[fasola]

Now it does have some more depth. They both look incredible.

Hope you don't mind, but here is my try.

I didn't think it was worth to staet a new tread

[fasola]

Dude, it looks amazing!

maybe the lines look a little thin, but that's all.

And I guess you beat me to it. I was planning on coloring it myself, and if it's not too bold for me to ask, maybe i can post it here, instead of creating a new tread.

Keep it up Solarian

[fasola]

Holy SH*T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, I'm going to have nightmares for god knows how long!

[fasola]

I agree with you. I haven't posted before, to take time to read all the articles and references I could. And for me it's just another sport event that involves kids, male or female.

I don't see where all the brow-furrowing is coming from.

It comes from somebody that needed a headline to sell a story. somebody wrote that story and made the headliner sound controversial, but the event itself is not controversial. People don't read articles they just browse headlines (mostly) so, if a headline is shocking or controversial, more sales and feedback for the persone who wrote it or published it. For me is another misconception based on a misleading article.

[fasola]

GREAT SCOTT!!

Looks pretty good to me.

good work.

[fasola]

Yuo sir, shure know how to make a man's morning. Thanks, a lot of great comic pages. Now I havo to go comic fishing.

[fasola]

Man, I just died and went to heaven!

AWESOME!!

[fasola]

Man, that is funny.

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