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Michael Sommerville
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Posted: 05 June 2018 at 9:29am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Now that the Miss America pageant, I mean competition, will not be judged on physical appearance should Mr Olympia do the same. I do understand people should not be judged by his or her physical appearance, the exception should be when it is a competition on physical appearance. 
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Those bodybuilder competitions present a decidedly different set of parameters than the average beauty pageant. Altho the young ladies involved in the latter most certainly have devoted time and effort into shaping themselves into society's idea of female perfection, for the boys it's almost like a construction competition. They have literally reshaped themselves, like sculptors working in living clay. So much more intensive.

Both are pointless and idiotic, imho, but they are quite different.

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I have never seen the point of them, but I do know they have their fans.

In a recent interview, former WWF wrestler Bret Hart said this about bodybuilders:

Who likes bodybuilders? Talk about zeroes in life. I mean, there's nothing, I can't say anything good about bodybuilders at all. What a total waste of your life. There's the vanity all day, there's nothing special about bodybuilders other than they lift weights all day. It's like a beauty pageant. 

I never had a fascination. I like a good physique and all - but to the point of being obsessed? The dieting and the whole thing - who cares? I don't see any ability or skill in it at all. Same with fashion models or runway models - I mean who really gives a damn? They're too skinny and they don't look as hot as they think.

He's not being diplomatic. Perhaps he should have been. But I have never quite understood such contests as described by the original poster. 
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I was being facetious about the bodybuilders. 

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A lot of work goes into the bodies of both
competitions, as already stated, both are pointless
and idiotic, but so is Cruft`s!

There has recently been discussion in British media as
to why it seems socially acceptable for women to
openly admire and ogle an attractive male body
(Poldark being the example) but not for men to do the
same when it`s a hot female.So judging a beauty
pageant on appearance in my opinion is no worse then
judging a body builder.

I used to work with a guy who was a bodybuilder, i
knew him from school when he was the typical 6 stone
weakling.He got buff, but abused steroids, which meant
he looked odd as there was nothing he could do to make
him taller! Then there was the obsession with the size
of a particular guy`s thighs! (An American called Tom
Platts?) Trying to get thighs as big as Tom, seriously
strange obsession!
I recently saw another old school friend on Facebook,
he had pics of his body builder hobby, with his bald
head, mahogany fake tan and exaggerated muscles he
looked like a pair of tights stuffed with walnuts!
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 I used to lift tons of weights in my younger years. Ran like 6 miles a day ate lots of protein, took supplements, read every Arnold article , book i could get my hands on. Apparently you cant get that big without steroids. Got a hernia though. 
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There has recently been discussion in British media as
to why it seems socially acceptable for women to
openly admire and ogle an attractive male body
(Poldark being the example) but not for men to do the
same when it`s a hot female.

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It's not acceptable? You just mean cat calling right?
Something is going wrong if you can't say they look hot.
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Posted: 05 June 2018 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

There was an example before The Graham Norton Show
where apparently the female BBC continuity announcer
said Aiden Turner from Poldark was on, but
unfortunately he was fully clothed, the debate was
`What if a male announcer had said similar in
reference to a female guest? Then we have a show
called Loose Women which i think is similar to The
View in the U.S.They often make lewd comments about
`Hot` males, double standards?Personally the
Politically Correctness of modern times does irritate
me, we are after all, human and are wired up to admire
the opposite sex (even the same sex) as long as it`s
done without being threatening or offensive, i don`t
think it`s a crime.

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Did JB predict the future again with the Krypton pages in Man of Steel.
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I have a friend/mentor who loves lifting weights (he actually designed the the program for my high school football team in the 1980's) and he decided one year to try competitive bodybuilding. He won some competitions but said that it was such a miserable experience that he'd never do it again.
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There has recently been discussion in British media as to why it seems socially acceptable for women to openly admire and ogle an attractive male body (Poldark being the example) but not for men to do the same when it`s a hot female.

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It's not acceptable? You just mean cat calling right? Something is going wrong if you can't say they look hot.

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A few decades back (yes, it's been going on that long!), I saw a then/now cartoon that addressed this. Man and woman in workplace.

THEN:

HE: Nice dress.

SHE: Nice suit.

NOW:

HE: Nice dress.

SHE: Law suit!!

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I must add a thing that shocked me, but also made me
laugh...My 78 year old widowed mom has the infamous (In
Britain at least) Poldark topless scything picture on
her fridge!
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