Bodybuilding slammed today on Gawker

[Hit-Girl]

Ok...the only real point he made in this little blurb was that bodybuilding is weird and freaky. Yes? I think everybody, including us bodybuilders, already knows this. Nothing earth shattering here.

Of course he focused only on bodybuilding's weirdness and a couple of other negative aspects, but could find nothing positive at all....fair enough. If you don't like it, don't do it. But obviously plenty of other people find lots of meaning and enjoyment in the pursuit.

It's sorta like when gas was high, and now it's like 40/50 cents cheaper. The news only cares when it's high; they don't give a shit when it drops. Bad news sells.

[bigchamp89]

What a sad and hateful individual. Brb injecting clen in my buttocks. LOL

[Yoshe]

It's sorta like when gas was high, and now it's like 40/50 cents cheaper. The news only cares when it's high; they don't give a shit when it drops. Bad news sells.

Gas is still high... O.O

[Jordan Coburn]

Just sent the following email to the dude who wrote that article:

Mr. Hamilton.

Thank you so much for helping me realize that years of grueling workouts, dieting and dedication had turned me into a “freakazoid weirdo”. Words can not express how shocked I was to realize that I had become a vain, narcissistic, closeted, mirror gawking douche. And my lack of functionality IS ASTOUNDING! I sure wish I was like those crossfit guys…I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been walking on the side walk (on my way to buy more string tank tops and tanning products) when I’ve encountered an obstacle in my path and the only way over it was one of those awesome kipping pull-ups or to clean and press it out of my way! It’s almost enough to throw me into a ROID RAGE!!! GRRRR!!!!

Thank you for showing me that the path to physique mediocrity is the only way to be truly happy and normal. Goals are for losers!

Regards,
A large, albeit vain, shallow, insecure, non functional man

[Bryan Hildebrand]

Or perhaps it is as diagnosed by strength coach Mark Rippetoe: "Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd."

thanks mark for seeing beyond yourself.

[capps]

Ya, gotta love these idiots that feel so insecure that they need to mock people that look in a way that they can never achieve. Why are people not writing articles about how gross it is to be fat? How out of shape fatties are unhealthy and lazy and waiting to have a heart attack or how they must have no self control or willpower to control their eating habbits. Why would anyone want to be fat? Waddling around making love to every food item they put in their mouth and you can actually hear them getting fatter. See that would never be written because it is mean, true, but mean. But because a large percentage of the population is fat it is ok to alienate the smaller group of fit or extreme looking individuals. Have you ever noticed that if you see an extremely obese person walking down the street hardly anyone notices them or makes a comment, but they see a large bber walking and they stare and you hear, omg what a freak, that is disgusting ect....

[xXJohnnyJuiceXx]

Ya, gotta love these idiots that feel so insecure that they need to mock people that look in a way that they can never achieve. Why are people not writing articles about how gross it is to be fat? How out of shape fatties are unhealthy and lazy and waiting to have a heart attack or how they must have no self control or willpower to control their eating habbits. Why would anyone want to be fat? Waddling around making love to every food item they put in their mouth and you can actually hear them getting fatter. See that would never be written because it is mean, true, but mean. But because a large percentage of the population is fat it is ok to alienate the smaller group of fit or extreme looking individuals. Have you ever noticed that if you see an extremely obese person walking down the street hardly anyone notices them or makes a comment, but they see a large bber walking and they stare and you hear, omg what a freak, that is disgusting ect....

Exactly. Society and the media has become a joke. I see skinny dudes or fat dudes walking around the mall in a guinny-T and nobody cares, yet if someone fit like us decides to do it, we're automatically assumed to be douchebags. It's a joke. Let everybody hate. Its jealousy at the max. It's a double standard. We work hard for what we have and it's not ok for us to show it yet it's ok for somebody who has a shitty physique to show how shitty they look. Crazy...

[Ryan Bracewell]

I dont really see what everyone is so upset about....Bodybuilders are weird. And I'm using the term bodybuilder loosely, as the average joe would include almost any powerlifter or strongman in that group as well. The only thing he did wrong is try to describe a bodybuilder using every stereotype there is, but they are stereotypes for a reason......because for the most part they are true. That doesn't mean that every bodybuilder is like the "bodybuilder" he described but I would be willing to bet that everyone on this site that considers themselves a bodybuilder falls into at least 2 typical stereotypes for bodybuilding.

And beyond all that, who gives a fuck what some dumbbass on a site that no one knows about is saying about bodybuilders. I'm guessing that site is more obscure than the sport of bodybuilding.

[boots]

As far as no one knowing gawker, it's in the top 1,200 visited sites globally on line, while rx muscle is not even in top 23,000,000--

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gawker.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rx-muscle.com

[xXJohnnyJuiceXx]

As far as no one knowing gawker, it's in the top 1,200 visited sites globally on line, while rx muscle is not even in top 23,000,000--

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gawker.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rx-muscle.com

Ranked at 375 for the US. Wow. How can a site with such biased material even be ranked like that. It's pathetic. That article was no better than the critic who gives a movie a bad review and makes fun of it, but doesn't state any reasons as to WHY is was actually bad. That's what this guy did. Basically make fun of bodybuilders. Yet this site is ranked so high in visited sites. At least the comments I've read so far are a lot people actually defending bodybuilding a lot of the time and bashing the author.

[sam]

what offends me about this article is that he comes off sharp and sarcastic, as if he is smart and not just shooting fish in a barrel. like someone else said, yes, bodybuilding is weird. we know that ourselves. we know we're easy targets.

[juiceinator3000]

Ranked at 375 for the US. Wow. How can a site with such biased material even be ranked like that. It's pathetic. That article was no better than the critic who gives a movie a bad review and makes fun of it, but doesn't state any reasons as to WHY is was actually bad. That's what this guy did. Basically make fun of bodybuilders. Yet this site is ranked so high in visited sites. At least the comments I've read so far are a lot people actually defending bodybuilding a lot of the time and bashing the author.

where does youjizz and pornhub rank here?

[matei]

As far as no one knowing gawker, it's in the top 1,200 visited sites globally on line, while rx muscle is not even in top 23,000,000--

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gawker.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rx-muscle.com

Alexa isn't extremely rellevant.
However, considering the layout, my take is that it's from the same network with Gizmodo.com, fact that allows me to assume that the author is the geek kind. A (Ape) Planet Fitness fatty who wants to get toned for the summer. Like this guy from this commercial:

[Jeff The Producer]

Here's the author's picture:

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[Bronwyn]

Till the time I am not physically hurting others, I may do what I want and look the way I want. Just looking at me is not hurting anyone. Look other way if you do not like it.... I do not have any problems with you, YOU have a problem with me and it is YOUR problem - that is what I think about haters....

It is so many weird people around us every day. I would say much weird than we are for a first look - and thay had much less controversis than we as bodybuilders have.

I never understood WHY bodybuilding. And why bodybuilding is also so explicit connected with violence - as not very long time ago in our media was an article about female bodybuilding - not in some shitty media, but in serious one, and the discussion below was almost the same, plus many people there said "they surely beat their men" - WTF? Is it normal for them that average women beat men? Or want to beat men? For me it is not.....So why the hell the FBB would beat men? Or would be physically agressive in the relationship? For women it is not typical to react like that and FBB are STILL women physically....so why the connection?

Once I even tried to make an antropological study, named "fear of muscles" - where I tried to find how people as animal species react to strenght overally, to visible physicall stronger ones... It was pretty long at the end and when searching in various cultures and various historical sources I really found ambivalent reactions to people who were physically strong or muscular - from adoring to execration - in times when no bodybuilding exist - so maybe those "fears" just transformed.... ??