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THE DARWIN FACTOR Female bodybuilders have borne the brunt of the inherent gender struggle that affects the acceptance of women as athletes. While still trailing their male counterparts in popularity and rewards, female athletes in general are taken more seriously than ever before, but female bodybuilders seem to be going in the other direction, finding it difficult to assimilate even into the bodybuilding subculture from which they were born. This fact has been blamed on everything from inadequate media attention to mismanagement of the sport, but maybe it's something more primal.

On one level, female bodybuilding appears to violate Darwinian imperatives of our hardwired sex roles, while also allowing for the evolution of the human animal to transcend culturally defined preordained destinies. Women's bodybuilding is a progressive cultural movement that defies long-held conventions and traditions. While many people accept the existence of women bodybuilders--i.e., society at large is used to seeing them--the sport still has its sworn enemies. Depending on your point of view, female bodybuilding is either a step forward in human potential or an insult to nature.

 

All bodybuilders can elicit strong visceral reactions in the general public, but none more so than a female bodybuilder. The general acceptance level for muscle on women has changed dramatically in entertainment and sports over the years, but a hyper developed muscular woman can still conjure awe, intimidation, resentment, fear and envy, as well as complicated and powerful sexual responses, especially in men. This confrontation with unwanted feelings can induce irrational hatred, sometimes even within the bodybuilding world itself.

Appreciating a muscular physique on a man or a woman makes you a person who appreciates a muscular physique on a man or a woman and nothing else. All other assumptions are irrelevant in the context of the sport of bodybuilding. The phrase "get over it" comes to mind.

YES, BUT IS SHE CUTE? For whatever reason--those Darwinian imperatives again?--no female athlete can escape being sexualized or having her personal appearance become the dominant factor in her perceived worthiness. When the WNBA began their first season, popular sports radio jock Jim Rome regularly insulted the physical appearance of some of the league's professional female basketball players, calling one star in particular a "horse." It was a cheap shot, one out of step with treating women as athletes, much less as equals, and Rome later said he regretted making the comments.

Of course, female bodybuilders endure the same harsh scrutiny for their looks, regardless of their physique achievements. Just check out some bodybuilding bulletin boards and see how nasty the appraisals can get. Yet, inversely, at the same time a different audience eroticizes women bodybuilders solely for their physiques--as a burgeoning underground muscle-fetish industry proves. But does this industry exist because women bodybuilders are being pushed beyond the fringes of their own subculture into this underground? Their options and opportunities in the bodybuilding mainstream seem to expire by the day.

 
 

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