Arguing about body building, doping, and beauty

Written by Angelica
Discussion topic -Journal reaction

Putting together body building, doping, and beauty as topic in the same conversation could be the beginning of a long discussion based on our stereotypes about them. First of all, I want to say that evaluating new things such as body building in women through our stereotypes about beauty, womanly, and sexiness is a limited viewpoint. I agree with everyone who exercises with a purpose of searching more energy and vitality. However, I disagree with using artificial aids (e.g. steroids) in order to get bigger muscles in biceps or calfes only as a reason for building bodies. So far, I can see differences between searching a body building by a natural way, and searching abnormal bodies by taking steroids. My concern related to this topic is not linked to what I think beauty on men or women is. Because that really does not matter to body builders, some of them enjoy their hobby because it is part of their lives. But the media has an important role by making money through body builders who have to do something wrong such as using steroids for gaining competitions. Because mostly this world is all about money, we have to deal with wrong messages reached form the media. It is a fact that from the media we can see figure competition of women where they do not look as athletes anymore. Furthermore, my concern to this topic is directly connected to what a body builder either women or men used to gain definition, vascularity, and symmetry. Finally, nowadays, body building is a hobby, but we can expect someday that more and more people enjoy looking and practicing body building. Therefore, I have to say that after many of our discussion classes as usual, we must respect personal decisions of everyone choosing whatever thing in its life only if that decision does not involve children and young adults in having risks for using steroids.