Ep. 103 - The History of Women’s Bodybuilding

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

The women’s bodybuilding division has arguably changed more than any other division in physique sport. It’s gone through periods of existence, non-existence, change, challenge, popularity, obscurity, and reemergence. While many focus on the physical differences of say, Cory Everson, and Iris Kyle, many don’t realize the changing pressures uniquely placed on female bodybuilders in the IFBB. In this episode, Dr. Conor Heffernan returns to recount the history of this division and juxtapose it to the male bodybuilding division. Further, we are rejoined by powerlifting champions Jessica Buettner and Natalie Hanson to juxtapose this historical perspective with their experience in powerlifting in the modern era, as women. As we say here at Iron Culture, the goal is to unite all lifters and to do that well we must put ourselves in the shoes of those we share the love of the iron with. We hope you enjoy the opportunity to do so in this episode!

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0:00.0	Eric, this is a, it's a powerful episode. And we're going to challenge the basic statement that for a lot of people, it's like, hey, look, I get it. I used to be a young whip and snap of myself. You see someone else. You see them outlifting you. You think to yourself, yeah, but I'm better than you. I should be lifting more than you. And that doesn't make me feel good because you're stronger than me. And it challenges my place in society, how I feel about myself.
0:23.4	I'm feeling very fragile.
0:24.5	I'm actually feeling pretty insecure right now.
0:26.3	So what's the best solution for that, Eric?
0:28.6	What would I do if I feel that I'm being displaced, emasculated because someone else is
0:34.8	doing better than me?
0:36.5	You got two doors here, okay?
0:38.4	And I'm going to let you decide which one you want to open.
0:41.2	You could even view this as the meme of the guy sweating about to push one or two buttons.
0:45.8	One is re-evaluate the association you have of lifting weights to your masculinity,
0:57.4	and whether or not masculinity is something that you should be valuing as a human characteristic in the first place and maybe just think more deeply
1:01.4	about who you want to be as a human. Sounds tough. That's one door. Sounds tough. It is. I think you
1:06.7	know which door you're going to go through. It's anything but that. The second door is make a fake account, or if you're feeling bold, don't make a fake account
1:15.8	and just try to tear that person down to where their accomplishments pales in comparison
1:21.9	to the vitriol and hate that you put out there.
1:25.5	So it's essentially using human beings as ladders to pull yourself up
1:29.9	by pulling them down. And really, it's about a quality when you think about it. They're above you.
1:34.6	Pull them down. Everyone's the same. Everyone's a corpse. Two doors. It sounds kind of beautiful
1:39.5	to me because here's the thing. You think you're better than me. Well, newsflash, you aren't.
1:45.5	And I just think it's funny that, you know, some people will say that, yeah, I'm getting upset.
1:51.2	Okay.
1:51.5	So I'm the one that's being out of line trying to impose my worldview on you when it has nothing to do with you.
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