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I think it's not impossible that a 250 lb FBB could exist, but it's not something that's likely to happen in the near future.  Certainly, current judging standards (requiring insanely low bodyfat percentages) do not encourage or allow women to build as much mass as they might otherwise.  At the same time, the fan base seems to be calling for proportionately larger and larger muscles, so I think the net effect is that women end up around the same size or slightly bigger during contest time, but are often much larger duing the off-season.

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Pro FBB judges now seem to only consider two things: size and conditioning.  Symmetry, the balance of a physique and the aesthetics ofthe body seemingly count for nothing.  In trying to drop to dangerously low bodyfat %ages, and in trying to build 17-18" arms, many of the women are taking strongly androgenic steroids, because of the judges' obsessions.  If judging returned to a more aesthetically-pleasing ideal, interest would slowly recover, as the women would look more attractive (not just sexually, but aesthetically) and therefore people would be more inclined to watch the contests.

Boy, this is one I go round and round about.  On the one hand, personally I prefer balance and aesthetics.  That's not a shocker to anyone who's ever chatted with me, read my posts, or even glanced with one eye half-open at any of my writing.  On the other hand, I think AlexG hit something right on the nose- Bodybuilding competitions tend to be judged pretty arbitrarily.  If muscle size and conditioning are the new standards, at least they can be somewhat objectively viewed.  This means that it takes less training and knowledge to judge a competition, because there is less judgement involved- there is simply quantifying and comparing.

There needs to be a consensus on what FBB is really about and what standards are going to be used to judge it.  Those standards then need to be communicated to the competitors and to the fans and spectators.

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Boy, I sure would!

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Will Hillary Clinton hulk out!?

Heh.  I kinda liked Rudy Giuliani as The Punisher, too…

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😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮
Look at the size of them GUNS!

It's true: Sylph is a BIG girl! 😀

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Now, with any luck, we get a newly updated version of his classic song…

Oh…Suzanna!

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An interesting beginning, as Fonk said.  I like Chrisi's personality- very confident (and why shouldn't she be?) yet still pretty innocent, nonetheless.  I can only imagine that an immensely powerful teenager must be very difficult to raise around normals, even if you yourself have superpowers; I can hardly wait to see how her Mom handles it (let alone her father- they still have to have normals for reproduction, right?  could be very awkward).

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I don't know that I'd even call it "Writer's Fatigue"- I'm still writing, and I do intend to come back to Sylph eventually.  It's just that I have no intention of allowing myself to write another Sylph story that isn't at least as good as the worst story I've offered to date (Rat Race, IMHO).  Eventually, I hope to do a couple of crossover/collaborations, but I want to make sure there is a good (and believable) story in place before I get too involved and over my head.

As for writing some Sylph stories of your own?  You know I enjoy reading 'em, so please go ahead and give it a shot.  I'd personally love to see a little more of Wilbur and learn what makes him tick- what he does in his spare time, what he's majoring in, what level of schoolin' he's attained (I'm guessing he's probably working on an advanced degree, similar to Wade, and there might be a degree of contact there as Wade knows pretty much everybody).

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Psst, the black "Amaz0ns Forum" text below the red box with your name and messages (that is also found at the bottom of the screen) can get you back to the home page by clicking on it.

😉

Just tryin' to be helpful!

-Kate

Appreciate it Kate, but that takes you back to the front page of the forums, not the site home page.  Lingster says he's on it, tho', so I'll wait patiently and, in the meantime, my fingers ain't broke, so I can type "www.amaz0ns.com" in the addy bar just as well as anybody else. 🙂

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Spent enough time there, I s'pose- I just generally except that I'm an American with multi-cultural leanings. ;D

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