[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Isn’t it a little gay to be this worried about what another man has done with his penis?
I mean, let’s get real here…if most of you had a camera following you into every bed room encounter, at least 80% of you fuckers would end up on America’s Funniest Home Videos with really tiny black boxes covering private parts.[/quote]
Wow, surprised it took this long for someone to not-so-subtly try to turn this into a dick-measuring contest.
And you’re missing the point if you think the debate is gay vs straight or any bash against gays, period. [/quote]
The gay thing means nothing to me. I was in a round about way implying that bodybuilding itself is a sexually infused sport simply because people fall to that in their own heads just because the men are in speedos.
You would either have to be the ultimate ladies man (Arnold), a tv personality of some sort (Ferrigno), or a preacher (Haney) to escape someone somewhere questioning the sexual aspects of any public actions or judging the man by it or anything else he does in public.
Arnold did tons of negative shit…but he played his hand well so people CHOOSE not to focus on it.
Kai was a stripper.
Really? This bothers people in 2013?
I mean, I know dudes who do this (while I am not aware of any gay action) I am aware that gay men in many cities are often carrying the largest bank rolls…and that many bodybuilders from Mike Christian to Craige Titus were involved in some shady shit to stay on stage.
This stripper shit pales in comparison.[/quote]
The point ive been arguing the whole time has little to do with me being offended by it (i do think making G4P videos fucking a grapefruit is pretty fuckin ridiculous though). Im simply defending an organization’s desire to keep athletes who they feel may draw too much negative attention to a sport from becoming the face of that sport.
Bodybuilding will probably never be much more than a fringe sport in its current form. But its still a business, just as the NBA or NFL is, and if that business couldnt make money, none of these guys would be able to do this.
The point is, while it’ll never be mainstream, mainstream = money, so they will try to bring it as close to mainstream as possible. For a sport that already has a hard time gaining general acceptance, Kai is not a good representative.
When people dont like something, theyll find a reason to demonize it. they wouldnt have to look hard to do that with Kai.
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Isnt this also the reasoning why Lee Preist would not only always finish lower than he desired but even suspended from the IFBB? Him openly talking about how messed up the progame is and getting his face tatted?